As reported in last June, Otoyo-cho Yutori Farm in Kochi Prefecture operated by a university student group "Niji Yasai Koubou" (roughly means Rainbow Vegetable Workshop) has been featuring moe girl illustrations on the packages of the vegetables such as snap peas and eggplant. The two moe girls named Saya Midorino (snap peas) and Shono Ayasaki (eggplant) were chosen by the first illustration contest which was held in March 2012. The contest was officially supported by Kochi prefectural office.

Now they have held the second illustration contest for their next vegetables, tomato and cucumber. The first winner's illustrations will be featured on the packages of the vegetables. Thankfully, they welcome entries from foreign artists. You can submit your own tomato and cucumber girl illustrations to them! The deadline is on February 14th and the winners will be announced on February 28th.

If you are interested, please check the guideline below.

Guidelines

Size: A4 (width 210mm x height 297mm)

Format: JPEG, Adobe® Illustrator®

Compression format: zip

You need to send three illustrations:

 1. standing posture for each character, tomato and cucumber

 2. scene illustration includes both characters

Please write your name, pseudonym (if you need), country, email address

1st winner's prize: gift certificate worth 50,000 yen

Deadline: February 14, 2013

Please attach your arts and send it in e-mail.

 mail : cool.vegetable@hotmail.com

Saya Midorino (snap peas girl)

Shino Ayasaki (eggplant girl)

Scene illustration

Source: Yomiuri Shimbun

illustrations © Niji Yasai Koubou