How the Vampires vs. Werewolves Fan Art Community Works
Bottom line: Every piece on the official Fan-Art Gallery comes from a player, not the dev team. This article explains how that gallery works, what kind of art gets featured, how the Top Contributors leaderboard is ranked, and exactly how to submit your own work.
What the Fan-Art Gallery actually is
If you haven't seen it yet, /fan-art.html is the community's dedicated art wall — a filterable masonry grid of drawings, paintings, 3D renders and edited screenshots submitted by players, sortable by faction (Vampire, Werewolf, or Cross-faction pieces that touch both). Below the gallery you'll find free themed desktop wallpapers (Blood Moon, Full Moon and Default, each in 1080p/1440p/4K) and a Top Contributors leaderboard ranking the players whose art has been featured most this season.
This blog post is a companion to that page, not a replacement for it. Think of it as the "how it works" guide — the gallery itself is where the actual art lives.
What kind of art is welcome
The gallery is intentionally loose about medium. Anything that's clearly your own work and clearly related to Vampires vs. Werewolves qualifies:
- Digital paintings and illustrations — full character portraits, faction scenes, key-art style pieces
- Traditional art — pencil, ink or paint, photographed or scanned
- 3D renders — sculpts, stylized models, environment pieces
- Pixel art and comics — panels, strips, sprite-style character studies
- Edited screenshots — in-game captures composited or color-graded into standalone art pieces (straight, unedited captures belong on the Screenshot Gallery instead)
You don't need to be a professional. Looking at the current wall, hobbyist sketches and more polished illustrations sit side by side — what gets a piece featured is that it's original, on-theme, and something the artist is proud to put their name on.
To make this concrete: a piece titled something like "Blood Moon Ritual", a digital painting of a vampire coven gathered under a crimson eclipse, is the kind of submission that fits the Vampire filter on the gallery. This is an illustrative description of a fitting submission, not a claim about a specific real artist or a specific real piece currently on the wall — check the live gallery for what's actually featured today.
How to submit your own art
There is exactly one real path into the gallery, in two flavors:
- Community Discord — post your piece in discord.gg/vvw. This is the fastest way to get eyes on new work and the place the leaderboard entries link back to.
- Community hub — use the Submit your art link on /community.html, which points to the same submission flow as the CTA on the gallery page itself.
Include your in-game name or the handle you want credited under. There's no fixed publishing schedule — the team reviews new submissions in batches from Discord and the Community hub, then adds selected pieces to the gallery wall (and the artist's tally on the Top Contributors board) as capacity allows.
How the Top Contributors board works
The leaderboard on /fan-art.html#contributors ranks creators by how many of their submissions have been featured on the gallery wall in the current season. Every row on the board links straight to the community Discord, so climbing the board is really just a byproduct of submitting good, on-theme work consistently and engaging with the community that grows around it.
Why the community art wall matters
A lot of what makes the world of Duskmaw feel alive comes from how players reinterpret it — faction portraits that lean harder into the gothic-horror side of the vampires, transformation studies that capture the werewolf side's ferocity, or cross-faction pieces that imagine what happens when the two collide outside of a raid. None of that is written by the dev team; it's entirely player-driven, which is exactly why the gallery exists as its own dedicated page rather than being buried in a forum thread.
If you've made something — even a quick sketch — it's worth posting. The wall grows one submission at a time, and every contributor started with a first piece in the Discord.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where can I see the official fan art gallery?
The live gallery lives at /fan-art.html. It's a masonry wall of player-submitted art you can filter by faction (Vampire, Werewolf, Cross-faction), plus free themed wallpapers and a Top Contributors leaderboard.
How do I submit my own fan art?
Post it in the community Discord at discord.gg/vvw, or use the Submit your art link on the Community hub (/community.html#fan-art). Include your in-game name or handle so we can credit you correctly if it's featured.
What kind of art counts as fan art here?
Digital paintings, traditional sketches, 3D renders, pixel art, comics and in-game screenshots edited into art pieces are all welcome. The gallery already features work themed around Blood Moon, Full Moon, faction portraits and Eclipse War scenes.
Do I need to be a professional artist to submit?
No. The gallery mixes hobbyist sketches with more polished illustrations side by side. What matters is that the piece is your own original work and clearly relates to Vampires vs. Werewolves.
Who owns the rights to submitted fan art?
You keep full copyright over your own work. By submitting you confirm the piece is yours and give the VvW team permission to feature it on the site, Discord and social channels. We never resell fan art or license it to third parties without your consent.
How does the Top Contributors leaderboard work?
It ranks creators by how many of their pieces have been featured on the gallery wall that season. It resets each season, and every entry links straight to the community Discord so you can follow the artists.
Can I submit screenshots instead of drawings?
Yes. Framed, well-composed in-game screenshots are welcome on the fan art wall and there is a separate dedicated Screenshot Gallery at /gallery.html if you'd rather post captures there instead.
Is there a size or file-format limit for submissions?
Post the highest-quality version you have in Discord — PNG or JPG both work. If a piece is selected for the gallery wall or a wallpaper feature, the team may reach out for a higher-resolution source file.
Can I use the free wallpapers from the gallery for my own art?
The Blood Moon, Full Moon and Default wallpapers on /fan-art.html are free for personal desktop use, but they are official artwork, not fan submissions — please don't repost them as your own or use them as a base for new fan art without saying so.
How long does it take for a submission to appear on the gallery?
There's no fixed schedule — the team reviews new Discord and Community-hub submissions in batches and adds selected pieces to the /fan-art.html wall and leaderboard as capacity allows.