It's time for another Art Jam contest! It was amazing to see the battles depicted in OC Duels! This month, we’re going back to our art jam competitions, this time sponsored by our official partner: Wacom!

Wacom is the global leader in digital pen and tablet technology, empowering creativity across the world. From first sketches to final masterpieces, Wacom tools are trusted by artists, designers, animators, and illustrators in studios, classrooms, and at home. With pressure-sensitive pens, multitouch gestures, and customizable shortcuts, Wacom helps you bring ideas to life faster and more intuitively.

Wacom tech has played a role in creating everything from animated films and concept art to fashion designs and special effects. If you've seen stunning digital artwork, chances are a Wacom was behind it.

Curious? You’ll get a chance to see Wacom in action—and maybe even win one—through our co-hosted contest. Welcome to: ‘In the Depths,’ sponsored by Wacom! 🌊

The challenge will end at 12:00 pm CET on August 26th, 2025! Make sure to submit your entries before the deadline!

Contest Details:

• The purpose of this contest is to create amazing art jams to be enjoyed by Magma’s community.

• There is no fee to enter the Contest.

• There will be a theme for this art jam. The theme is ‘In the Depths.’

• This competition is collaborative; therefore, you must create a team of 2 to 3 people to compete in this challenge. Like our ‘World’s Colliding’ competition in the past, you must create a collaborative art jam - the level of contributions from others, alongside your team’s drawing, will be assessed.

  • Note: Collaborative score is NOT dependent on the quality of the contributors alone. Should you want a reference, please see the past winners here: https://magma.com/blog/worlds-colliding-art-jam-winners

• By entering this contest, you grant Magma the right to use your submitted work in promotional materials, including emails, social media posts, and other marketing efforts. You will be credited wherever your work is featured. When we announce the winners, we want to include their work in our emails notifying our Magma users of the event.

• By entering this contest, the entrants agree to be bound by the submission guidelines set out below.

How to win?

Like last time, there are two sets of prizes. Our main set of winners will be determined by our panel of judges: Henrique, Flooferman, and Orb!

Should you compete, you will be judged according to the following criteria:

• Collaboration (Score from 1 to 10): Does the art jam look like multiple artists were involved? Did the team members and other artists work together?

• Originality (Score from 1 to 10): How creative is the artwork?

• Visual Clarity and Presentation (Score from 1 to 10): How visually clear and well-executed is the final piece? How well has the team mastered its craft?

• Organisation (Score from 1 to 10): How organised was the art jam? Did the team members create the jam in a way that coordinates the participants? Could people participate if they joined later, or could only early joiners draw on the art jam?

• Theme Interpretation (Score from 1 to 10): How clearly and well did it address the competition’s theme?

However, outside of our main set of winners, we are also hosting a community challenge, where the winner will be determined by the highest amount of likes a submitted piece has.

• Winner determined by the highest amount of likes a submitted entry has on the host’s Magma profile

  • Note: If you win a main prize, you will be ineligible for the community challenge prize.

Awards:

• 1st Place: $100 USD in Mags and a Wacom Movinkpad 11 for each team member

• 2nd Place: $50 USD in Mags and a Wacom One for each team member

• 3rd Place: $20 USD in Mags and a Wacom Intuos for each team member

• Community Prize: $50 USD in Mags for each team member

Eligibility

1. The minimum age to participate is 13 years old. Participants aged 13 to 18 must have parent or guardian approval to enter.

2. Entrants 18+ can directly receive prize payouts. Entrants under 18 must have an adult or guardian handle the prize payout on their behalf.

How to Enter:

1. Create a team of 2 to 3 people that you wish to compete with.

2. Create your Art Jam on Magma.com. When creating the art jam, you must put the following disclaimer in the description: “This Art Jam is being submitted to Magma’s Art Jam Competition, sponsored by Wacom: https://magma.com/blog/in-the-depths-artjam-contest. By participating, you are allowing your art to be submitted in the host’s competition entry.”

   1. The Theme is ‘In the Depths.’ Feel free to interpret this description as creatively as possible. Your art jam does not need to be titled ‘In the Depths.’

3. Once you start your art jam, one team member must submit the art jam link and a list of the team member’s public profiles via this link: https://form.typeform.com/to/PVfIrxFd#id=xxxxx**.**

4. Once you’ve completed your piece team member must share the final art jam on Instagram, and they must follow Magma and Wacom to be eligible.

   1. Instagram: #MagmaInTheDepths and tag Wacom and Magma in the post (@wacom and @magma_com).

5. Should you wish to compete for the community prize, one team member must also share the link to their public gallery with the art jam posted on their profile via this link: https://form.typeform.com/to/LKDQwyXU#id=xxxxx**.**

Delivery of Prizes:

1. Prize payouts will be made in Mags, which may be exchanged for currency by adults (18+) via Tipalti in alignment with Tipalti’s Terms of Use. Tablet payouts will be distributed directly by Wacom or by Magma for harder-to-reach geographies.

2. For prize recipients not eligible for Tipalti or Wacom Tablet shipments, an alternative of Huuray gift card with the identical value will be offered. Affected winners will be notified individually.

   1. Wacom reserves the right to substitute tablet prizes for ones of equal or greater value if the original prize is not available for any reason.

3. Winners who fail to provide the necessary shipping & billing details will lose eligibility for the prize.

Additional Rules:

1. Magma reserves the right to disqualify entries suspected of violating the rules or artificially inflating engagement. Final decisions will be made at the discretion of the Magma team.

2. The Contest is not open to companies, educational institutions, organizations, etc. or to groups associated with such institutions.

3. Staff, Board members, and their immediate family are not eligible to enter the Contest.

4. All submitted work must be 100% drawn on Magma without the use of third-party platforms or AI.

5. All submitted work must be original and not based on any pre-existing artworks or copyrighted characters.

6. All submitted work must not include 18+ or other inappropriate and/or inflammatory content. Interpretation of what falls into the above category is in the sole discretion of the contest organizer.

7. All submitted work must not be subject to foul play (creating fake accounts to like the post, harassing other users, etc.).

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Regardless of whether or not you're competing, we hope you have a great time on Magma! As always, feel free to send us your Feature Requests in Magma to let us know. If you have any questions, reach out to us on Discord or send us a message.

Have a good week, and good luck to all competitors! ⚔️