[X] My Assistant

A selfish personal request, but one of my parents is not in a good place health wise and may not make it past this month. As their influence in my upbringing played a large part in why I ended up finding E-H nearly 25 years ago, I'd like to see some retro/80s ladies in their honor. As a reminder, this is simply a request and by no means required.



Please reference the April's Banner Contest for information on the new Banner Template.

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Welcome to the 221st Monthly E-Hentai Banner Contest!
A test of creativity open to any registered user that wishes to participate.

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Banners will be voted and ranked by our gallery and forum janitors staff, and results will be posted in the banner contest thread generally within the first few days of the month.

Those banners meeting a minimum point threshold will be featured on the News Page of the E-Hentai Galleries. In addition, each banner contestant that wins will be awarded Hath based on their placement:

1st through 3rd place: 500 Hath
4th place and lower: 300 Hath

Rules:

1. Use the banner template found here: [Link]
   • This banner template is in PSD format with the banner title isolated from the background with both typed text and rasterized flavors provided.
   • In the work paths of the file, horizontal limit recommendations have been included as a guide to where the banner title would be best located. The spacing suggested works best with even numbers of characters; split between each side, or three characters; two on one side and one on the other.
   • In addition to the PSD file, PNG copies of the banner with the banner title justified left, right, and center are also provided for those who lack the means to edit PSD files.
2. Submitted banners must be submitted as a PNG image file, preferably as a forum attachment.
   • Banners may not be animated, even in PNG format.
3. Each person may only submit one banner.
   • In the event of multiple submissions the first banner that appears in the thread will be used.
   • If you need to modify your banner entry post initial submission, please edit your posts so that your updated banner is either your first or only entry in the contest thread.
4. There must be at least one female character present in the banner.
   • Male characters are not permitted.
5. Absolutely no nudity is allowed.
   • Partially exposed lolicon characters that, by way of convenient censoring or cropping, are rendered not nude will be grounds for disqualification as well.
6. *NOTHING* (characters, shadows, backgrounds, accessories, banner title, et al) shall touch or be cropped against the left or right edges of the banner.
   • Both the main title and sub title must line up with each other horizontally.
   • The banner title should not be heavily edited or obscured beyond clear and obvious recognition.
   • The banner title may be moved horizontally as long as it satisfies the rest of rule 6, but please consider balance and viewability.
   • The banner title may not be moved vertically.
7. Less of a rule and more of a suggestion: Characters should either be from the same series, be in the same or similar art style, or connected by some kind theme (i.e. catgirls, Christmas, bunnies, mod suggested, Airddragon, etc)
   • The banner contest poster may suggest themes in the thread topic description or at the beginning of the contest, but by no means are you required to follow that suggestion.
   • Use of characters from IPs owned by aggressively protective companies (such as Blizzard or miHoYo [Genshin Impact] as an example) however is prohibited. (Ask if you are unsure)
8. Though admirable, please do not include artist credit or signatures within the banner or banner art.
9. You must understand that I love you all. Except Spectre. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif)

Please be mindful of some basic considerations regarding your chosen artwork, in particular to visual clarity. If you are unsure whether any part of your banner may be at odds with the rules, feel free ask in the banner contest thread, or alternatively look at past entries in this subforum to see what other users have submitted.



If you wish to preview a banner as it would look on the website but do not want to manually modify url paths in the browser console you can try a script provided by hzqr:
[gist.github.com] https://gist.github.com/anonymous/009b0c272...5061ae4b8a635bd

This script allows you to double click the banner already in place on the News Page, and either preview in place your banner saved on your computer or load another image from a URL.

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Banner entries are due by: May 25th (ish).

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Good luck, and have fun! The E-Hentai staff always look forward to seeing what new banners are cooked up each month.

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to ask here in the contest thread itself, or PM me directly.

GoGoGo!

sad to hear that, spectre...
I added butterflies from my garden, as symbol of life, fragility, change and growth.



This post has been edited by Noni: May 5 2025, 08:34

This post has been edited by elda88: May 15 2025, 14:15

This post has been edited by SIRIUSs: May 5 2025, 09:17

(IMG:[i.miji.bid] https://i.miji.bid/2025/05/05/4eccb5e5a8226000b6e39fc51c680726.png)

I feel sad to hear this. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
I have made this banner according to your request and sent it to you.

Yay~

Illust : Mika Pikazo

This post has been edited by vocal-android: May 5 2025, 18:43

Letter "T" shifted by 1 pixel because I felt it's too close to the adjacent letter "A". Is this allowable?

Before:
(IMG:[i.postimg.cc] https://i.postimg.cc/sDQMpFjp/b4.png)

After:
(IMG:[i.postimg.cc] https://i.postimg.cc/pTLTr4c5/after.png)

Letter "T" shifted by 1 pixel because I felt it's too close to the adjacent letter "A". Is this allowable?

Before:
(IMG:[i.postimg.cc] https://i.postimg.cc/sDQMpFjp/b4.png)

After:
(IMG:[i.postimg.cc] https://i.postimg.cc/pTLTr4c5/after.png)

I will have to look at it when I get a chance; it is not the only single pixel separation, and extending that spacing would throw off the alignment of sub-title without further adjustments. For now please use the banner template as is.

Also, that parent died 4 hours and 15 minutes after I posted this banner contest, we knew it was going to be very soon but this was... shockingly soon. While one is never prepared to lose a loved one, we still held on top hope we would have just a little more time... (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif)

Also, that parent died 4 hours and 15 minutes after I posted this banner contest, we knew it was going to be very soon but this was... shockingly soon. While one is never prepared to lose a loved one, we still held on top hope we would have just a little more time... (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif)

I'm so sorry for your loss.

Also, that parent died 4 hours and 15 minutes after I posted this banner contest, we knew it was going to be very soon but this was... shockingly soon. While one is never prepared to lose a loved one, we still held on top hope we would have just a little more time... (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif)

my condolences Spectre...

Also, that parent died 4 hours and 15 minutes after I posted this banner contest, we knew it was going to be very soon but this was... shockingly soon. While one is never prepared to lose a loved one, we still held on top hope we would have just a little more time... (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif)

my condolence to your loss.....

Also, that parent died 4 hours and 15 minutes after I posted this banner contest, we knew it was going to be very soon but this was... shockingly soon. While one is never prepared to lose a loved one, we still held on top hope we would have just a little more time... (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif)

My condolences.

Also, that parent died 4 hours and 15 minutes after I posted this banner contest, we knew it was going to be very soon but this was... shockingly soon. While one is never prepared to lose a loved one, we still held on top hope we would have just a little more time... (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif)

My condolences to you and your loved ones.

Also, that parent died 4 hours and 15 minutes after I posted this banner contest, we knew it was going to be very soon but this was... shockingly soon. While one is never prepared to lose a loved one, we still held on top hope we would have just a little more time... (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif)

Since I'm a relatively new user, this is the first time I'm sending you a message, but I've been reading the history of this site through old threads and have seen how important you are to this community.
I know the great pain that comes with losing loved ones. I believe it's one of the most difficult situations one can go through in life (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
Also searching through the lore of this community, I recently learned that one of the former admins and founders of this site, OTD (ONTHADOWNLOW), had a crisis and left this site at the end of 2006, allegedly due to the loss of one of his parents, leaving everything in Tenboro's hands.

I hope you can overcome this sad situation. My condolences (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/anime_cry.gif)

Following Noni's idea of ​​including butterflies, I just made this banner:





I wanted to go for something more retro as you suggested, but the few arts I saw were very difficult to fit into the banner space and make them look good, given that this is my first edit here

This post has been edited by nigreco451: May 12 2025, 06:34