drawlympics.com is a FoundryInk site built around competitions. It hosts two different things: daily drawing challenges (led by Inktober and its sub-genres), and the annual Inky Awards. You can browse it signed out, and you enter with the same FoundryInk account you already have, so your entries are saved in your own studio. This page covers what the site is, how to enter a challenge, how the awards work, and how it all ties back to FoundryInk.
drawlympics.com is a separate FoundryInk site, the competition face of its galleries. It is not a separate account or a separate system: it reads and writes the same FoundryInk platform. The nav has four destinations: Today, Challenges, the Inky Awards, and Art, plus an Enter button. Anyone can browse every public page without signing in; you sign in only to enter.
drawlympics uses your FoundryInk account. Signing in is the same login you use on FoundryInk, and if you are new, signing in creates your account and a personal studio for you. The first time you enter, there is a one-step registration (your birth date and the Terms), and after that you go straight to the entry form.
Hit Enter and the form has three steps. Challenge: pick the challenge and, if it has run more than one year, the Year. Day: pick a day from the grid, each tile shows Day N with its prompt word (or Your choice), today is ringed, and days you have posted show a badge; today and every earlier day are open, future days are not. Your picture: drop in a PNG, JPEG, WebP or GIF, up to 50 MB. Then Post to Day N, or choose Draw it on FoundryInk instead to open that day in the Creator Canvas.
When you choose a picture, a Crop and rotate window opens straight away, using FoundryInk's own adjust tools: a crop box with handles, a rotate dial and quarter turns, and a More adjustments disclosure for finer tweaks, with Revert and Done. A Crop and rotate button under the preview reopens it. When your day goes live, the crop is baked into the public copy, so the wall never shows the uncropped photo.
An entry is not stored on drawlympics; it is saved into your own personal studio on FoundryInk as part of that year's sketchbook, exactly as if you had drawn the day in the studio's Inktober tab. So drawlympics.com and the FoundryInk studio both show the same days, and you can work from whichever you prefer. New accounts are checked before their work shows publicly, so a first entry is saved and marked live but held from the public walls until the account clears.
Every gallery on drawlympics is an endless wall: there is no load-more button, it just keeps scrolling. The walls are organised by year, newest first, and when you reach the end of this year's art the wall carries on into last year, the year before, and so on through every year the challenge has run. Today shows the current day's pieces, Challenges and Art are the browsing walls, and each card opens the piece right there on the site.
The Inky Awards are a separate competition on the same site: FoundryInk's annual juried awards for comics and the people who make them. They are not a drawing challenge. Three stages, in the site's own words: anyone can nominate during the nominations window (free, including your own work); the panel sets the ballot (an appointed judge panel curates it and can add works); and the industry votes (studio members, accredited critics, verified retailers and invited voters, one vote per category), with a Readers' Choice award open to every signed-in reader. Winners and a Hall of Fame live under the Awards section.
Your account menu has My entries, which lists each challenge you have entered and the days you posted. Per day you can Take down (and Put back later; the picture stays in your sketchbook), Replace it with a new upload, Crop it again (which re-bakes the live copy), or Draw it in the Creator Canvas. Your account strip links out to your artist page and to your FoundryInk account settings.
drawlympics is a competitions-shaped view of FoundryInk, not a separate app to manage. Your work, your studio and your account are the FoundryInk ones. Selling works the same way it always does: a piece shows its price and a Buy on FoundryInk link, because the checkout lives on FoundryInk, not here. Your full account settings live on FoundryInk too, and drawlympics links you there.
No. drawlympics uses your FoundryInk account, the same login. If you are new, entering creates your account and a personal studio. Anything you post appears in your FoundryInk studio too, and there is nothing to link.
Into your own personal studio on FoundryInk, as a page of that year's sketchbook, exactly like drawing the day in the studio's Inktober tab. Both sites show the same days. A brand-new account's first entries are held from the public walls until the account is cleared.
A PNG, JPEG, WebP or GIF up to 50 MB. Choosing a picture opens a Crop and rotate window using FoundryInk's own adjust tools, with finer adjustments behind a disclosure. When the day goes live the crop is baked in, so the public wall never shows the uncropped photo. You can re-crop a posted day later.
Inktober is a daily drawing challenge: a prompt a day, no winners, no judging. The Inky Awards are an annual juried awards program for comics and makers: anyone nominates, a panel sets the ballot, and the industry plus a Readers' Choice vote decide winners. They share the site but are separate competitions, and an Inktober piece is not an awards entry.
The walls are endless by design, with no load-more button. They are organised newest-year-first, and when you reach the end of this year they continue into previous years, so a challenge's whole history is one scroll. Empty older years are skipped.
You do not check out on drawlympics itself. A piece shows its price with a Buy on FoundryInk link, and the purchase happens on FoundryInk, where your selling is already set up. drawlympics is the competition and showcase face; FoundryInk is where the commerce and your settings live.
drawlympics is where your daily drawings compete and get seen, and where the Inky Awards run each year. Sign in with the account you already have, enter a day, crop it, and post. The work lands in your own studio, and the walls carry it back through every year of the challenge.
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