Shortly after SHotM began, Davien Watkins, founder of Superhero Enterprises and a former music industry executive, contacted me about the possibility of us holding a contest with them for their flagship character, NOTES. It's taken a while to get everything squared away, but finally SHotM is proud to present NOTES as our December contest!
Criteria is a little different for this month. Since NOTES is a character I'd wager almost everyone is unfamiliar with, we're not looking for artists to redesign him. Rather, illustrate NOTES in your style. What we'll be looking for is an illustration that best exemplifies what you believe NOTES stands for. That's pretty broad, so don't redesign, just have a lot of fun.
Per Superhero Enterprises, "NOTES" is our most powerful science fiction superhero and a highly-skilled leader in music technology, whose mission is to enhance and transform the experience of making and editing electronic music.
"N.O.T.E.S." distinctively offers solution(s) to the global fight against illicit downloading and counterfeiting, as the consequences of digital piracy online and in the streets....have continued to threaten the U.S. economy, jeopardize public safety, and undermine the livelihood of our domestic entertainment industries.
Comic book superheroes are supposed to provide role models that are potentially used by children in developing self images. N.O.T.E.S. symbolizes these qualities of high moral character, courage, generosity, and honor of a noble spirit.
Superhero Enterprises also recently debuted the beginnings of NOTES's origin story on their site. To familiarize yourself with NOTES, I'd highly recommend giving it a read!
Submissions will be judged like normal, and are due Friday, December 23 by 6:00 PM MST. Davien and Superhero Enterprises are offering the following as prizes for the contest:
1st Place: Opportunity to write/illustrate a two-page short story featuring NOTES to be featured on Superhero Enterprises' Tumblr and DeviantArt pages, a NOTES T-shirt, 1988's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #4, signed by co-creator Kevin Eastman, and Ice Cube's Laugh Now, Cry Later.
2nd Place: Batman & Robin (vol. 1) #1, Alien/Predator Free Comicbook Day promotional, The Game's Doctor's Advocate and Erick Sermon's Erick Onasis.
3rd Place: Superman (vol. 2) #205 and Snoop Dogg's Tha Blue Carpet Treatment.
If you have further questions, send them to us at either Superhero of the Month or Superhero Enterprises, specifying in your subject that your email regards the SHotM NOTES Contest.
Shame Davien Watkins is purely about selling merchandise and the comic is of no weight. The stories are disjointed and nonsense on the whole, which is why i'm guessing part of the prize is to illustrate and write a story. I would strongly suggest checking this man out on his GOOGLE+ account where he states YOU ARE STUPID IF YOU DO ANYTHING FOR FREE
ReplyDeleteHis Disclosure for submissions for work says just about everything you need to know about Davien Watkins
ReplyDeleteIn exchange for Superhero Enterprises™ review of my artwork, writings, sketches, costumes, characters, creative ideas, stories, suggestions or other designs concepts, I acknowledge and agree as follows: Superhero Enterprises™, its agents, artists, writers, representatives or licensees may now have similar artwork, sketches, costumes, characters or other designs, ideas or concepts in development and/or may independently develop and use similar artwork, sketches, costumes, characters or other designs, ideas or concepts. Any similarity between any materials that I show to Superhero Enterprises™ and/or any materials already in development or independently developed hereafter by Superhero Enterprises™ or any of its agents, artists, writers, representatives or licensees shall be coincidental. I shall have no rights whatsoever in or to, nor shall I make any claim against Superhero Enterprises™ in connection with, any artwork, sketches, costumes, characters or other designs, ideas or concepts already in development or that may hereafter be independently developed by Superhero Enterprises™, its agents, artists, writers, representatives or licensees, notwithstanding any similarity to any materials that I have shown to Superhero Enterprises™.
So in other words he now owns your portfolio and can copy any of your ideas for stories or character design without giving you anything including credit.