Fab Feb Contest

The Croquis is a boutique fashion illustration company providing made-to-order sketches. You can commission a piece for a wedding, birthday, anniversary, or even as a gift for yourself. Explore their products, learn about their process, and view examples at www.thecroquis.com.

The Prize!

The Croquis will be doing a custom fashion illustration portrait of one lucky prizewinner, The winner will upload their photo to be illustrated, and one of The Croquis’ New York City based, traditionally trained fabulous fashion illustrators, will render the custom croquis illustration of you! (or whomever you choose)

The final piece will be in your choice of black or white studio frame, 16"x 20"

For a chance to win:

• Become a friend of The Croquis, on Facebook and tell them what makes you so chic.

The best response will receive the beautiful and glamorous gouache croquis package!! Valued at $250.

This contest is open worldwide, from Feb 1^st Through Feb 28^th at 3pm PST.

Contact Info:
www.thecroquis.com

Twitter
http://twitter.com/thecroquis

Lights... Camera... FASHION!

Lights…Camera…Action…

You’re going to love the contest we’ve put together for you this month. We’re giving away three fashion in the movies themed gift baskets. Each contains a wonderful Hand Sewn Felt Mouse ornament of a fashion Guru, corresponding DVD Movie, and tin of Gourmet Popcorn to accompany your private screening.

But first, to enter; you’ll need to be your own movie director. We want to see you in action, getting your ideas on to paper. Preferably our paper. Set up your camera, and capture yourself doing what you do best- recording those fab design ideas you have swirling around your head. Here’s an example of an inspiring demo movie Katie Rodgers did for us; You do nothave to use a Hokey Croquis Sketchpad for this, you can download our templates in our ‘Freebies’ section and use them or draw your designs freehand.

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To be in the running to WIN:

1. e-mail a link to your movie, your name, mailing address and daytime contact details to contest@hokeycroquis.com. Also include a line telling us where how you heard about Hokey Croquis, your age, hobbies , job and aspirations.

Conditions of Entry
The 3 Winners of the Fashion icon gift baskets will be judged according to their presentation and their design content. Judges are looking for creativity and talent as well as a great sense of Fashion!

• Entry is open worldwide.
• Enter as many times as you like providing each entry is unique and original.
• Entries may published online at the discretion of Hokey Croquis Inc.
• Entry closes 31st January 2010 at 10am.
  

The 3 competition winners will be announced on the Hokey Croquis Blog and notified via email.

Well, we were pretty overwhelmed by all the great entries we received,
But the winners are {drumroll please}
Schaumin, Daniel, Tory, Veronica, and Mandy.

Congrats to all our winners and thank you to all our contestants!
Winners will be contacted separately.

Happy new year everyone, and watch this space  for our adorable January contest.

This Dress at left was our favorite entry by Schaumin. Isn't it cute? and we adore the shoes too. You can visit her blog here;




See you in 2010 designers!















Holiday season is upon us, and whether you’re attending fabulous parties in your most ravishing cocktail dress, or just wishing you were - we’re itching to see what wonderful party dress designs you can come up with! 

The only criteria we have; you have to design the dress yourself, and it has to be a dress (not a two piece, not a pant suit).
Go ahead and send your original designs to us at contest@hokeycroquis.com for a chance to win one of five Hokey Croquis Fashionflat sketchpads. Our innovative Fashionflat Sketchpads are just the thing for anyone who loves dreaming about their drop-dead-gorgeous party wear. We created the Fashionflat Sketchpad to help both pros and would-be-designers to present inspired designs effortlessly- so no matter what your skill level, we’d love to see what you’ve got!

To be in the running to WIN:
1. e-mail your image, (in a single attachment) your name, mailing address and daytime contact details to
contest@hokeycroquis.com
2. In the body of your e-mail include one sentence telling us what you like about the Fashionflat Sketchpad.
Conditions of Entry
The 5 Winners of the Fashionflat Sketchpad will be judged according to their stylish fashion sense and their accompanying description of Hokey Croquis. Judges are looking for creativity and flair as well as a great sense of Fashion!
* Entry is open worldwide.
* Enter as many times as you like providing each entry is unique and original.
* Entries will may published online at the discretion of Hokey Croquis Inc.
* Entries close 31st December 2009.
The 5 competition winners will be announced on Hokey Croquis and notified via email.