Monthly Art Prompts

Monthly Art Prompts (commonly abbreviated as MAPs) are an event hosted in the Fan Forum on Starmen.net. The event is modeled after the Monthly Prompt Posts that took place in the Writing Forum and had been going on for far longer. Each month, the host posts a word or phrase prompt, and participants create an art piece based off of their interpretation of the prompt. All participants receive a badge, and the host chooses a submission that wins for the month, or is "featured". That user earns a special badge and their art is included in all future MAP posts. This event welcomes all types of art, including digital, hand-drawn, painting, etc.

MAPs were an idea initially proposed by Sunnycide[link needed] as a rebooted version of previous unsuccessful art events (such as the Monthly Illustration Contest). Sunnycide ran the event from January to July 2020 before the event took a year-long hiatus. In August 2021, PSINightmareEmpower took over as host of the event, and is still the current host today.

Badges are handed out for the event each month. The participation badge is tiered, and those who participate 5, 10, 15, and 20 times will receive an upgraded version of the base participation badge for each tier. The participation badges were created by Lose\_Zard. In addition, a badge created by kota12[link needed] is given to those who's artwork is featured. This badge receives no upgrades.

The following is a list of all Art Prompts and those who participated/were featured.

* January 2020 - Prompt: Space
	+ Participants:
		- TiramisuGrenouille
		- TheKappaKaptain
		- PSIduck 7
		- kota12
		- Panadopolis[link needed]
	+ Winner:
		- PSIduck 7
* February 2020 - Prompt: Dreams
	+ Participants:
		- PSINightmareEmpower
		- TiramisuGrenouille
		- PSIduck 7
	+ Winner:
		- TiramisuGrenouille
* March 2020 - Prompt: Tropical
	+ Participants:
		- Lindsocolo
		- PSINightmareEmpower
		- TiramisuGrenouille
	+ Winner:
		- Lindsocolo
* April 2020 - Prompt: Ink
	+ Participants:
		- PSIduck 7
		- Panadopolis
	+ Winner:
		- PSIduck 7
* May 2020 - Prompt: Retro
	+ Participants
		- PSIduck 7
	+ Winner:
		- PSIduck 7
* June 2020 - Prompt: Colorful
	+ Participants:
		- Lindsocolo
		- TiramisuGrenouille
	+ Winner:
		- TiramisuGrenouille
* July 2020 - Prompt: Hero
	+ Participants:
		- TiramisuGrenouille
		- Testosostoblerone
	+ [no winner was chosen for this month]
* August 2021 - Prompt: Coffee
	+ Participants:
		- UltraBolt
		- Hammer7
		- kota12
		- LastStarmanSuper
		- Slib
	+ Winner:
		- Slib
* September 2021 - Prompt: Awakening
	+ Participants:
		- UltraBolt
		- Ripjaw
		- LastStarmanSuper
	+ Winner:
		- Ripjaw
* October 2021 - Prompt: Bear
	+ Participants:
		- kota12
	+ Winner:
		- kota12
* December 2021 - Prompt: Snow
	+ Participants:
		- I SO ONETT
	+ Winner:
		- I SO ONETT
* January 2022 - Prompt: Cats
	+ Participants:
		- Squirrel King[link needed]
		- RamenKitty
		- LastStarmanSuper
		- UltraBolt
	+ Winner:
		- LastStarmanSuper
* February 2022 - Prompt: Negative Space
	+ Participants:
		- Squirrel King
		- UltraBolt
	+ Winner:
		- Squirrel King
* March 2022 - Prompt: Sky
	+ Participants:
		- Hammer7
		- UltraBolt
		- kota12
	+ Winner:
		- Hammer7
* April 2022 - Prompt: Garden
	+ Participants:
		- Yezz
	+ [no winner was chosen for this month]
* July 2022 - Prompt: Music
	+ Participants:
		- kota12
	+ [no winner was chosen for this month]
* August 2022 - Prompt: Movies
	+ [there were no participants this month]
* September 2022 - Prompt: Fire
	+ Participants:
		- Squirrel King
		- Yezz
		- Citrine
		- Drake Inferno
	+ Winner:
		- Citrine
* October 2022 - Prompt: Spooky
	+ Participants:
		- Boots, technically
	+ [no winner was chosen due to ambiguity about the legitimacy of the only submission]
* November 2022 - Prompt: Cheese
	+ Participants:
		- Ripjaw
		- UltraBolt
	+ Winner: UltraBolt
* December 2022 - Prompt: Laughter
	+ Participants:
		- RadScallion
		- Yezz
	+ Winner:
		- RadScallion
* January 2023 - Prompt: Royalty
	+ [ongoing]