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Call for Entries

Call for Entries: #Character Kitsch

Pictoplasma invites you to study the old masters – and enhance them by adding character – as eccentrically camp, garishly gratuitous and romantically kitschy as possible.


Everyone seems to be going on about the “good old times”. But were they really better? And for whom? For Characters?
No matter how sentimental the past may be perceived - we think there’s always room for improvement!


Your mission:



  • Scrape the world’s museums – and steal (right-click, save as) your favorite classical painting (from Monet’s Picnic and Botticelli’s Venus or Casper David Friedrich’s Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, to Artemisia Lomi Gentileschi’s Danaë, or even one of Bob Ross’ Happy Little Landscapes…)

  • Study the craftsmanship, feel inspired, and deep dream your own characters into the scenery, by lovingly superposing/arranging them over the landscape.

  • Use whatever (human) tools and techniques you wish.

  • Change history to the better – by adding the character it lacks!


Submit your entries by uploading them to Picto|Home with the hashtag #CharacterKitsch in the project description (and please give credit to the original master).


Deadline for entries is Monday, July 14, 2025.


An esteemed jury of acclaimed high-art critics will select 5 updated masterpieces to receive a full, free year of PictoPRO powers, unlocking 24/7 VoD access to our growing archives of 300+ past, present and future PictoTalks and enabling you to learn from (and scrape) the OG masters of international character design and art.


CAE

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Dalmatian Mole sniffing Van Goghs Irisis

CAE

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Kandinskys Farbstudie mit Augen und Zähnen

keem korn

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Summer Evening with Monke

steve finch

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demon (Jan Matejko, Stańczyk, 1862)