Illustracienca Competition

When I was researching competitions I would like to submit work for, I came across a competition by the Catalan Association of Science Communication for a book they make named Illustraciencia and the competition the made was called the International Award for Scientific Illustration. For this competition the company wanted a single image to be submitted that is related to Science or Nature and needed to 150 - 200 word description of the work submitted. They also would like the image to not have watermarks and be a high-resolution PDF image and will be able to print in A3 but they said that the technique was free which gave me free reign of how I would like the drawing They also mentioned that they would pick the top 40 drawings based on the scientific accuracy, clarity, originality and information capacity which made me think more of a unique image to draw for the competition. For this competition I created this detailed pencil illustration of a new species of spider that had been introduced recently named Skeletorus. However after submitting my work I noticed another artist had made a very similar drawing based around a different spider from the same family. This may now challenge my work to stand out though hopefully since the spider I drew was based on a new type that is unique to the family mine would stand out more.

Illustration for competition

proof of my submission to the competition