The Art of Adding Eyes to Get the Message Through

Pictoplasma asked you to dig into your professional portfolio and shine a spotlight on one of your creations that served its cause – with character.

Pictoplasma's Call for Entries invites all international illustrators, artists, designers, and animators to showcase characters as perfect harbingers of purpose by showing off a favourite project that puts anthropomorphic appeal front and center. Big or small, commissioned or self-initiated, static or in motion – all can serve as proof that a character can communicate anything: from content to context, from consumerism to cause.

“If in Doubt, Put Eyes On It!”

(old Pictopian saying, early 17th century)

Have you been commissioned to create a characterful mural in the office of a spiffy startup or add recognition value to the facade of a local boutique? Have your characters been activated in animated campaigns, applied to apparel, sent as stationery, given as greeting cards? Are you responsible for bringing life to words in picture books, self-care manuals, magazine think pieces? Or were you hired to apply character to product packaging, figurative logos, or enlivened ads – from global/national billboards to flyers for your local punk club? 

If your answer is yes – and you’re proud of the result – we are asking you to share your character with a beauty shot of its final manifestation!

UPDATE – FEBRUARY 27

Thanks to all who submitted their work to this call for entries. Our appetite for engaging, inspiring, and energizing character client work has been thoroughly satisfied...

After much jury deliberation, 15 entries have been selected as winners for this Call For Entries!

Each of the following creators will receive a year of Picto PRO membership and an invitation to create a self-recorded PictoTalk (5 minutes video) sharing the who, what, why and how of their project – to be broadcasted to the Pictoplasma community during the upcoming PictoPRO online event this March 21, 2024.

To see their final presentations for yourself, all you will need is some free time on March 21 and a Picto PRO membership of your own...

JURY SELECTION (ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY CREATOR):