Ever since Doki Doki Literature Club! was released nearly eight years ago, fans across the world were drawn to one prominent aspect of the game: its charming, cute, and occasionally eerie art style. Only hours after the game launched, fan communities would begin to form around it and start creating their own derivative works showing how much the game had impacted them, both as a game and as inspiration for their evolving imaginations.
Doki Doki Creatives is an event hosted by fans for fans, celebrating the incredible talent of the artists that've been a core part of keeping the psychological horror we all know and love popular and relevant ever since 2017. No matter what your creative talent may be, we highly encourage all artists in the community to participate and show the world what you can make!
While not primarily a competition, we'll also be having a ranking system headed by some noteworthy talents in the DDLC community, both old and new. By the end of this event, the highest rated artist will be dubbed the Creative Champion! Will you be the one to take home the award? Only one way to find out~
The submission period has ended. Judges are currently reviewing all submitted works.
Thank you if you sent something in!
Categories
BGs - Backgrounds that are made to be used in visual novels and DDLC mods.
CGs - Character scenes that usually are made with a visual novel/DDLC mod in mind, sometimes being heavily centered around the narrative.
Sprites - Character sprites made for a visual novel/DDLC mod.
Fanart - Just regular fanart! Nothing that's intrinsically tied to a visual novel or mod project, just something that's made for fun, and with love.
ABSOLUTELY NO CONTENT PRODUCED BY GENERATIVE AI WILL BE ALLOWED. If event coordinators or judges have reason to believe your submission has been produced by AI, it will be disqualified.
Aside from AI, there's no restriction on what's used to make your art - be it with whatever materials you used or what software you draw with - but the final product must be submitted in either PNG or JPG format. (If your artwork is physical, please submit a picture of it.)
NSFW/suggestive artwork submissions are allowed, but we strongly recommend going for a viewing age of 16+ (no clear nudity, heavy gore, etc.).
There's no restriction to what the subject of your art is, but it must be related to DDLC in some way. OCs are fair game, too!
Any submission must have been made in 2025.
Any submissions must be made by the artist that produced the art. Please do not plagiarize other people's work. If you have any reason to suspect your art may have been submitted without your permission, please let us know.
Any non-fanart submission must be made free to use by the DDLC community, either for mods or for other non-commercial purposes. Please provide a name you can be credited by (or have it be one of your social media handles).
You are allowed one submission per category, and no more than one.
Have fun~!