Art:The Great Shiny Doodle-Off 2025
The Great Shiny Doodle-Off was an event hosted by Clotho on the YPP Official Discord in December 2025. It featured a full month of festive, family-friendly chaos where pirates young and old could break out their paints, pencils, cameras, noodles, glitter, glue, cardboard tubes, and whatever else is rolling around the cabin floor! The main event thread could be found here.
The event was based on the December Doodles, and welcomed the return of Shiny Sun Points as prizes.
Contents
- 1 D01 - A Shiny Start (Apollo Tribute)
- 2 D02 - Ninja vs Pirate: The Duel
- 3 D03 - Gingerbread Shipyard
- 4 D04 - Time Traveler’s Logbook
- 5 D05 - Found in the Islands
- 6 D06 - Noodle Ring Doodle
- 7 D07 - Grumpy Pirate Stole Holiday Cheer!
- 8 D08 - The Great Wrapping Paper Reconstruction
- 9 D09 - Sweater Weather
- 10 D10 - New Year Resolution... Gone Wrong
- 11 Links
D01 - A Shiny Start (Apollo Tribute)
Create a real-life drawing or a physical collage that captures the spirit of Apollo or the early Shiny Sun era. (Link)
Winner: Adrielle (an inscribed Winter Ornament + 5 SSP + Holiday Wreath + Sun Swordfight Dummy + Bushel of Apples)
Runner-up: Kriosx (inscribed Winter Ornament + 2 SSP + Holiday Wreath + Sun Rumble Dummy + Bushel of Apples)
Honorable Mention: Zamarantha (inscribed Winter Ornament + 1 SSP + Holiday Wreath + Sun Bust + Bushel of Apples)
D02 - Ninja vs Pirate: The Duel
Create a short comic strip showing a duel, a rivalry, or even an unlikely friendship between a pirate and a ninja. (Link)
Winners: Adrielle and Wayfarer (inscribed Winter Ornament + 10 SSP + Giant Pirate Nutcracker + Holiday Wreath + Sun Rumble Dummy + Crossed Swords)
Runner-up: Mwynn (inscribed Winter Ornament + 5 SSP + Pirate Nutcracker + Holiday Wreath + Sun Swordfight Dummy + Crossed Swords)
Honorable Mentions: Ellenya and Galantis (inscribed Winter Ornament + 2 SSP + Holiday Wreath + Sun Bust + Crossed Swords)
D03 - Gingerbread Shipyard
Build a real-life pirate ship or sea scene made from gingerbread - or gingerbread-adjacent materials. (Link)
Winner: Adrielle (inscribed Peaches and Cream Heart Winter Ornament + 10 SSP + yellow/orange "Sunny Apple" sloop + Festive Fir + Model Frigate)
Runner-up: Kriosx (inscribed Peaches and Cream Heart Winter Ornament + 5 SSP + Model Frigate + Festive Fir + Festive Candelabra)
Honorable Mention: Cattrin (inscribed Peaches and Cream Heart Winter Ornament + 2 SSP + Festive Fir + Festive Candelabra)
D04 - Time Traveler’s Logbook
Write a short logbook entry from the perspective of a pirate who has somehow traveled through time — forward, backward, sideways, or somewhere delightfully strange. (Link)
Winner: Ellenya (inscribed white/grey Sphere Winter Ornament + 10 SSP + Festive Stockings + Giant Imperial Nutcracker + Captain's Clock)
Day 207
Out of rum spice- mercenaries took the last lifeboat. Swabbies appeared from nowhere- I don't trust the tall one...
Day 209:
Somethings different- can't put my finger on it...
Day 210:
Tall swabbie keeps calling me "old chap"-very old fashioned.
Maybe some rum will help...
Day 211:
The colours gone! We're all sepia and the mercs using words like "mayhap" and "oftentimes."
Day 212: What the dickens? Woke up in a powdered wig and wearing coattails...
Day 213: Time moving backwards- whence shall it cease? Shall we be cave pirates tomorrow?
Day 214: U giv rum? Kthnxbai.
Runners-up: Wayfarer and Kriosx (inscribed white/grey Sphere Winter Ornament + 5 SSP + Festive Stockings + Toy Imperial Soldier + Captain's Clock)
Honorable Mentions: Nipnipchin and Adrielle (inscribed white/grey Sphere Winter Ornament + 2 SSP + Festive Stockings + Toy Imperial Soldier)
D05 - Found in the Islands
Take a real-life photograph of something that feels like it could belong in the Yohoho world - whether by shape, color, coincidence, or pure pirate imagination. (Link)
Winner: Wayfarer (inscribed Tan and Green Heart Winter Ornament + 5 SSP + Holiday Wreath + Black and Gold Ship's Bell)
Runners-up: Ellenya and Cattrin (inscribed Tan and Green Heart Winter Ornament + 2 SSP + Holiday Wreath + Black and Peach Ship's Bell)
Honorable Mentions: Kriosx and Adrielle (inscribed Tan and Green Heart Winter Ornament + 1 SSP + Holiday Wreath)
Shout-outs: Furiousme and Bisca
D06 - Noodle Ring Doodle
Create a real-life craft or sculpture made from noodles of any kind: spaghetti, macaroni, ramen, lasagna, egg noodles, any pasta ye can plunder! (Link)
Winner: Cattrin (inscribed Tan and Gold Winter Ornament + 5 SSP + Gingerbread + Yellow Festive Holly + Gold Ming Vase)
Runner-up: Kriosx (inscribed Tan and Gold Winter Ornament + 2 SSP + Gingerbread + Yellow Festive Holly + Peach Ming Vase)
Honorable Mention: Greylady and Adrielle (inscribed Tan & Gold Winter Ornament + 1 SSP + Gingerbread + Yellow Festive Holly + Mint Ming Vase)
Shout-out: Ellenya
D07 - Grumpy Pirate Stole Holiday Cheer!
Illustrate a scene showing that a grumpy pirate has stolen holiday cheer! (Link)
D08 - The Great Wrapping Paper Reconstruction
Reconstruct something marvelous from leftover wrapping materials. (Link)
D09 - Sweater Weather
Create an illustration of a pirate wearing a winter sweater, or a standalone sweater design worthy of the high seas. (Link)
D10 - New Year Resolution... Gone Wrong
Write a short piece of 150 words or fewer describing a pirate's New Year resolution that absolutely did not go to plan. (Link)
Links
- (Not) December Doodles: 2017(ish)
- December Doodles: 2016
- December Doodles: 2015
- December Doodles: 2014
- December Doodles: 2013
- December Doodles: 2012
- December Daily Doodles: 2011
- December Daily Doodles: 2010
- December Daily Doodles: 2009
- December Daily Doodles: 2008
- December Daily Doodles: 2007
- December Daily Doodles: 2006
- December Daily Doodles: 2005