#hardcover2025 Project submission page


Welcome to #hardcover2025!

In the spirit of protesting against censorship on social media, we will again gather over 100 artists and collect a plethora of erotic art. With #hardcover2025 it will be the same as with #hardcover2024, and we include artistic nudity together with (bluntly put) full-blown pornography. The main thing here is that you have fun, feel safe and comfortable, and that we end up with a great book :)

You can read more about this project on this website.
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IMPORTANT! The book has a topic!


This year's topic is: retro. Your work must reflect that topic in some way, 
 
We keep the topic pretty generalized on purpose as we want to give you all some wiggle room. For any unclarity or questions, feel free to reach out through Discord (link below at "Other Info") and we will gladly help and also do early reviews of your piece if you feel unsure. 

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What we’ll need from you

  1. One or two artworks (do not send multiple images to choose from) each artist can have two pages to fill (optional)
  2. If you have two separate submissions, please upload them separately
  3. JPG format, 300dpi,
    Vertical A4 (297 x 210 mm | 11.7 x 8.3 inches) + 3 mm all-around bleed, RGB
    Horizontal (260 x 395 mm | 10.2 x 15.5 inches) + 3 mm all-around bleed, RGB
    Remember that the double spread has a fold right in the middle and consider that in your composition!
  4. We accept digital and traditional 2D and 3D art
  5. Fill in the details of the submission form
  6. If you have some, please include sketches and WIP images.


Deadline

Submit your work before the end of February 2025 in your time zone.
With the announcement of this book being quite early, we promise to not move the deadline, so please, if you plan to be in this book, manage your time accordingly.
Please use the form below.


Do not!

  1. Please do not send us artwork depicting non-consent, underage characters, or gore, not even suggestive. 
  2. Please do not send us fanart.
  3. Don’t join this book if your personal views as a person and artist marginalize other fellow humans. We have no space for homophobes, sexists, racists, xenophobes, or any kind of prejudiced individuals and their bigoted ideas. The book's content will be diverse and this is the only way it should be.
  4. Please don’t send us artwork that has been published anywhere else. It can be old work but still, it has to be unseen material. If the contrary is found out along the way, it will be pulled from the publication. If you want to post about your contribution on social media, do not share it unless it is cropped to only show 25% of it as a preview. We believe that before the publication the content should be exclusive and whatever is fully shared before, will be curated by the book's creators for promotion. That being said, PLEASE promote your participation, the book's quality depends on its visibility!
  5. Complete or partial, we don't care: Absolutely no AI imagery is allowed in the book! 


Judges

Entries will be evaluated by a team of professionals from different backgrounds, that are going to be announced soon! 


Confirmed artists

As always we will have an amazing lineup, with amazing artists contributing that is going to be announced soon!


Chosen entries

The artworks that are picked will be published alongside the curated content of the book. Every artist that was selected to be published will receive copies of the book and a limited print, exclusively made for the published artists of the project. You will also get a discount on additional copies of the retail version of the book. Additionally, we will pay out 90% of the campaign's profit to the artists with the option to instead get the amount's worth in the form of art books from the Caurette store. Regarding your artwork, we do not ask for ownership of it, but only exclusive publishing rights for one year after the book is published and available in retail.


Other info

The book and its content will be discussed on Discord which is the only place where feedback on the artworks will be publicly shared. Sneak peeks on the creation of #hardcover2025 will be visible on the #hardcover channel on Discord. The book will be co-published with Éditions Caurette, who will also sell the retail version of the book after the campaign and handle the fulfillment of the books.
 

Cheers!
Spiridon