I have not hosted a contest in ages so here we go, we're giving Do This in Your Style a try!
It features Astrophel because he repeatedly has been my muse lately when creativity gets hard. He's a living nebula, 1/7 of a black hole that gained sentience and split itself to research the ever-growing universe. Astro was the piece created from this being's heart chakra and is embodied by it: being social, sweet, and naturally in tune with others at his best. After some drama involving the creation of a child that angered his sibling, the defacto leader among them, Astrophel is no longer allowed to spend extended visits at inhabited planets but was never told to stay away from space explorers, so that's how he makes most of his friends and gets in trouble these days. Astrophel is made of celestial dust and can form a massive celestial body that can shift mass and size dramatically or create small avatar-like creations inside of relatively simple environments or on planets/crafts.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/53710357
For the DTIYS, the ask is to try one of the two images above, modified to suit your style, another scene from a short story with Astrophel, "Pod E101" linked above, or another piece featuring Astrophel in-character. I welcome questions if anyone has them.
Entries will be due by June 25th! They should be posted to Tumblr with the tag #clickspringdtiys
First prize will be a fully rendered image of up to a full-body single character or a GT interaction image cropped to composition if that floats your boat.
If there are 3 entrants or more, first runner-up will get a colored single character sketch up to fullbody.
If there are 5 entrants or more, the second runner-up will get an uncolored single character sketch up to fullbody.