[Two Marker Products Co., Ltd.]
Announcing the results of the first round of the analog work contest “Copic Award 2024”, which received entries from 70 countries! 50 works selected from over 3,600 entries
*Two Marker Products Co., Ltd.*
Press release: August 22, 2024
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Announcing the results of the first round of the analog work contest “Copic Award 2024”, which received entries from 70 countries! 50 works selected from over 3,600 entries
*Professional creators such as Paru Itagaki and Yusuke Nakamura selected from all works! Final screening results will be announced in November*
Too Marker Products Co., Ltd. (Head office: Meguro-ku, Tokyo, President and CEO: Ishii
Gota) has announced the results of the first round of the Copic Award 2024, a Copic art contest sponsored by our company.
– * Over 3,600 works received from 70 countries around the world * The Copic Award is an online contest that solicits entries based on the concept of “connecting with Copic users around the world.” We are looking for original works using Copics, and anyone can participate for free.
The Copic Award 2024 held this year received over 3,600 wonderful works from over 70 countries and regions.
– * The judges reviewed all 3,600+ entries and made a selection * The first round of judging was this year’s judges, Mr. Paru Itagaki (manga artist), Mr. Shohei Ochiai (artist), Mr. Yusuke Nakamura (illustrator), and Mr. Kota Nezu.
(Designer) and Mr. Michihiko Yanai (Creative Director).
After the application deadline for the Copic Award, each judge spent about a month looking through all of the submitted works published on the website. We will select 10 works based on evaluation criteria such as “I was particularly interested in the work” and “I was strongly attracted to the individuality and power contained in the work.”
The task of narrowing down over 3,600 works to just 10 works is extremely difficult every year, and there are various ways of selecting works, such as first narrowing it down to a few hundred works and taking a long time to select them, or once narrowed down to a certain extent, choose intuitively. is.
After each judge spent a considerable amount of time selecting the works, the winning works were selected to proceed to the final judging.
– * Works from a wide range of authors were selected, from those who are new to Copic to those who have been selected for awards * We would like to introduce the 50 winning entries that will move on to the final judging (posted in no particular order).
We have gathered highly original works by a wide range of authors, from those who learned about the award at a store and casually applied for it, to those who have been selected for or won a Copic Award in the past.
Please check the first round announcement page for details such as the author’s name and comments on the work.
Copic Award official website
Japanese page; https://copicaward.com/ja/winners/winners2024/ English page: https://copicaward.com/winners/winners2024/
– * Final screening results will be announced in November * The final judging will be based on the original drawings sent by the creators of each work. The five judges who made the initial selection will select and comment on the winners and decide on the “Grand Prix,” “Semi-Grand Prix,” “Next Generation Artist Award Grand Prix,” and “Judge’s Award.” The final screening results will be announced in November 2024.
*The image is an image of the judging committee (from the Copic Award 2023 final judging results report)
In addition, the Copic Awards have many awards that are decided without a final examination of the original drawings, such as the Next Generation Artist Award (100 people), the 3D Work Award (2 people), the Area Award (10 people), and the SNS Award. Award winning works (1 person), Multiliner Award (1 person), Copic Team Award (3 persons), Pixiv Award (1 person), Favorite Award (1 person), etc. will be selected from among all submitted works including the winning works. will be selected from.
There are still many chances for works that were not selected in the first round to win the award, so we hope that you will continue to look forward to the announcement of the final selection results. – * About “COPIC” *
Copic is Too based on the concept of “making everyone creative” This is the group’s art supplies brand. We mainly sell color markers, and they are used by many people in over 70 countries around the world, regardless of their purpose.
Main products: Copic Sketch, Copic Ciao, Copic Classic, Copic Multiliner, Copic Ink, Copic Aclair
* 【Company Profile】*
Company name Too Marker Products Co., Ltd.
Address: Meguro Higashiyama Building, 1-4-4 Higashiyama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo Representative: Representative Director and President: Gota Ishii Date of establishment: October 6, 1989
Capital: 16 million yen
Business content Manufacture and sale of drawing markers / Import agency business /
Sale of design materials, art supplies, picture frames, picture frames, picture frame processing, architectural model materials, comic production materials, stationery, miscellaneous goods, and books. URL: https://copic.jp/