Happy New Year everyone! Hope you had an enjoyable holiday season with your family and friends.

To welcome the new year, MakersPlace would like to host its first Digital Art Contest with the Steemit community.

PRIZES

1st place will win 70% of the post rewards, and 50 Steem from MakersPlace.

2nd place will receive 20% of the post rewards.

3rd place will receive 10% of the post rewards.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

Make a piece of digital art that relates to the contest theme, "Happy". You may submit as many pieces as you want, but you will only be eligible for one prize. For example, if you submit two pieces of art, you cannot win both 1st and 3rd prizes. Only one of your pieces will be selected to win a prize. So submitting more art may increase your chances of winning a prize, but it's impossible to win extra prizes.

Publish and protect your art piece, by tokenizing it on the blockchain, so that the authenticity, and ownership of your creation can forever be verified. Creating a token out of your creation will help to create more value out of your work. You can use the free MakersPlace service to do this, by registering at https://makersplace.com/register using the exclusive Steemit invite code:

mkp-steemit

Make a Steemit Blog post, including your art, and link to your entries' blockchain Proof of Authenticity (Ie. https://makersplace.com/authenticity/0x2d9e5de7d36f3830c010a28b29b3bdf5ca73198e/1346/)

Be sure to add the following tags to your Steemit blog post: 

#cryptoart #makersplace

Submit your entry by leaving a comment on this post. Be sure to link to your artwork.

Promote your submission to friends and followers, to get more upvotes!

If you have any questions about the contest, or want join a community of artists to chat with, feel free to drop by the MakersPlace Discord Channel.

RULES FOR SUBMISSION

• The art must be natively digital
• The art must be your original work. We will be conducting searches to check.
• The art should be a piece created for this contest. Please don't submit old works for an easy chance to win prizes. Please be honest.
• The art must be published to the blockchain, so that the authenticity, and ownership of your creation can be verified. You should get into the habit of protecting all of your work.
• You must Upvote and Resteem this post to be eligible to win.
• You must submit your creation as a post on your Steemit blog
• You must submit your creation by leaving a comment on this post, linking to your artwork.
• Submissions are closed once this post pays out in 7 days.

What is MakersPlace?

MakersPlace is a platform that makes it easy to create and sell unique digital creations, using blockchain technology.We believe the digital world of the future needs more empowered creators (artists, photographers, musicians and more). We’re helping creators take full advantage of blockchain technology to better protect their work from day one, and ultimately make more money by enabling true ownership and scarcity of their creations. We also want to help get creators more visibility, by distributing their creations to our marketplace partners, and through our social media/newsletters. To learn more about MakersPlace, check out the following links:

We are always looking to improve MakersPlace and try to keep you up-to-date whenever something changes. If you have any suggestions about what we should change or add to MakersPlace, then please drop by our Discord server and let us know!