Prompt Guidelines
While the requirements for each prompt may vary wildly from prompt to prompt, we have a strict set of rules that ALL prompts must abide by. While breaking these rules for your prompt may not get you in trouble (depending on the circumstances, of course), they will result in immediate rejection of your prompt submission.
- Prompts may not depict content that is derogatory or hateful towards certain groups of people.
- Prompts may not depict injuries or death of any characters depicted.
- Prompts may not depict sexual content or imagery of any kind.
- Sushi Dogs depicted in prompts must be accurate to the design currently shown on their masterlist profile.
- Unless otherwise stated, artwork used for prompts must depict full-body character art in order to meet the prompts' character requirements (including additional characters).
- Unless otherwise stated, all prompt art must be created by the user submitting.
Minimum Art Requirements
- Art must be clean, orderly, and legible. If mods cannot tell what the objects, characters, or background is, then it will be rejected. In most cases this is only an issue for rushed art. We want users to take prompts seriously and tackle them in a timely manner, and find rushed art a complete disregard for the efforts other community members put into meeting these guidelines.
- Pets must be accurate to their official art in terms of anatomy and detailing. Pets can have minor color and marking adjustments, but if they are missing parts of their designs, it will be rejected.
- In many cases, higher effort will "make up" some requirements needed for artwork submitted to prompts.
About Completion Requirements
These requirements, if applicable, will list the minimum level of completion on your drawing or writing required to receive the base reward for the prompt.
Artwork Completion Requirements
Sushi Dogs art prompts will ask you to meet one of four difficulty levels: beginner, intermediate, advanced, or expert. These levels essentially describe the level of detail that your artwork must have in order to satisfy the prompt's requirements.
Beginner-level prompt artwork should be, at minimum, a loosely colored sketched drawing. Your sketch lines and coloring don't have to be precise as long as they are legible!
- Example Needed!
To meet the intermediate level, color and refine the lines to match the character's design. This is polished-artwork that has been cleaned up to make for a flat fullbody.
If depicted with other elements, the fullbody requirement can be wavered.
Advanced level prompt art adds shading and sometimes a minor background to help give your fullbody more detail and dimension! Shading must be noticeable and backgrounds can be abstract or simplistic.
If depicted with other elements, the fullbody requirement can be wavered.
- Advanced Example #1 by TheMidnightMage
- Advanced Example #2 by booplet
- Example #3 by MayBay
This is the most challenging level of drawing prompt! At this level, we are aiming to create a scenic illustration, so please be sure that your background contains dimensions and elements.
This level also comes with special bonuses for artists who want to go above and beyond. Are you ready to make a portfolio-perfect piece?
Prompt artwork may be above the required level, but cannot be below it. For example, if a prompt calls for intermediate level artwork, you are welcome to submit artwork at the advanced or expert level, but you cannot submit artwork at the beginner level.
Higher Effort in Lieu of Level Requirements
Here are some examples of art that does not meet stated requirements, but still pass due to effort put in:
Pixels are treated similarly to regular prompt artwork and thus must meet the requirements in the levels above.
- Pixel Example by TheMidnightMage
Videogame Scenes can forgo some requirements if they include other aspects that are unusual in regular artwork such as text, iconography, and multi-layered elements.
Comics are expected to hit most requirements over the duration of the page. This means requirements for levels can be "spread out" and still hit our requirement mark.
Digital Paintings are considered the highest-effort and thus can simply override prompt requirements due to the effort put in.
- Digital Painting Example by c_candy
Additionally, while we strive to grade everyone fairly, unfortunately, art is very subjective, and your style may vary greatly from the examples provided. If you are unsure if your prompt artwork will be accepted, please contact us and we will happy to help!
Storybook Completion Requirements
Sushi Dogs art prompts are also eligible for Storybook submissions. These are uncolored artworks that accompany a matching story written by the artist. This is intended for creatives who feel stronger in their writing skills.
These prompt submissions require at least 250 words written and an uncolored scene. This means artwork is still expected to have a background, elements, and grayscale coloring or shading. The amount of elements is not strict, and characters drawn do not need to have their fullbodies depicted.
- Storybook Example by saphiresong98
Sushi Dogs is an Art-Based Roleplaying Game (ARPG) and thus, all prompts must require artwork in some capacity. We will not accept writing alone for prompts.
About Character Requirements
These rules define the types of characters that can or can't be included in your prompt.
Eligible and Ineligible Characters
- NPCs: Non-Player Characters. These are listed in the character masterlist under the category "Non-Player Character," and have the character code "NPC."
- Player Characters: These are characters the belong to other users within the community! Player characters are listed in the character masterlist under the following categories: "Official Soosh" (character code "OFF"), "Guest Soosh" (character code "GST"), and "MYO."
- Retired Characters: These are characters that no longer exist in the world of Culario, and are listed in the masterlist under the category "Retired" with the character code "RTD." Because they do not exist within the canon of Culario, retired characters are always ineligible for use in prompts.
Ownership Requirements
- N/A: You may draw characters that you own, characters owned by others, or NPCs (unless NPCs are ineligible for the prompt).
- Owned player characters: You must draw characters that you currently own. You may be allowed (or required) to include characters that you do not own, depending on the prompt, but a character that you own must be included.
- Non-owned player characters: You must draw characters that belong to others, or NPCs (unless NPCs are ineligible for the prompt). You may be allowed to include your own characters, depending on the prompt, but a character that you do not own must be included.
Additional Characters
- Not required: You do not need to include any additional characters in your prompt. You may do so if you'd like!
- Required: At least one additional character must be included in your prompt. Some prompts have specific rules for required additional characters, so please read carefully.
- Not allowed: You cannot include any additional characters in your prompt.
About Rewards and Bonuses
Each prompt will include a column detailing the available rewards and bonuses for the prompt. Potential bonus reward criteria will be listed in the submission requirements column as well, but the rewards column features a condensed list of what you can earn for completing certain goals.
- Base Reward: This is what you will receive for completing the minimum requirements for the prompt.
- Quest Giver Bonus: Occasionally, the quest giver will grant a bonus reward if you play to their tastes. Be sure to pay attention to which NPC is the quest giver!
- Drawing Bonus: A bonus for going above and beyond with an artwork prompt (usually, this will mean hitting a completion level beyond what is minimally required for the base reward, see drawing requirements above).
- Writing Bonus: A bonus for going above and beyond with a written prompt (usually, this will mean reaching a higher word count than what is minimally required for the base reward).
- Character Bonus: A bonus for the number and/or types of characters in your prompt.
- Pet Bonus: A bonus for including pets that exist on-site for more world-building.
As bonuses will vary from prompt to prompt, do be sure to read the bonus criteria before submitting your prompt! This will help you maximize your profit from each prompt you enter.
Prompts FAQ
No, any artwork or writing used for your prompts must be made by you. We'd like for our prompts to encourage artists and writers to improve their skills. Additionally, we want to avoid giving advantages to the privileged few that can buy them, in order to keep the game as balanced and fair as possible. Please create your own prompt submissions to the best of your ability and resources!
Awakened forms are considered to be canon to the world of Culario and are allowed for use in prompts. Non-canon forms cannot be used in prompts.
Forms must be approved and depicted on a Sushi Dog's masterlist entry to be accepted in prompts.