Regulations & Rules for 2025 Jeune Pinceau Award (Asia)

Three artwork themes to choose from:

• I'm travelling in 2050:A 3 or 4 panel comic strip about your travel experiences - how you travelled, where you went, and who you were with!

• My eco-friendly eco-home:Imagine your ideal low carbon cabin with the "smallest ecological footprint".

• I'm also a "master artiste":Choose one or more of your favourite works of art and adapt or recreate them by incorporating your ideas.

Each participant may create one or more drawings, up to a maximum of three per person, based on one of the proposed themes, while observing the points below:

• Artwork size requirements:A3 size (frame size 27cm x 42cm), landscape or portrait

• The form of the work:

• Handmade or digital paintings (including AI works) in any material and technique.

  • Entries will be divided into four main categories: traditional hand painting, traditional digital painting (aided by painting software), artificial intelligence (AI) painting and video animation..

  • If it is a traditional digital painting work:Participants were required to submit the names of the drawing tools they used and a video of their own e-drawing creation process to prove that their work was not derived from AI technology.

  • If the work is produced through AI technology or partially through AI technology:Participants are required to indicate the name of the tool used as well as all descriptive keywords (description of the creative process) used in the process of creation using AI technology.

• Information to be provided along with your submission includes:Surname, first name, age, city, title of the work, technique used, brief description of the work, email and telephone number, and the name of the organising body (e.g. tutor, school or arts centre) if a collective organisation is involved.

• Entries must not contain:Illegal, obscene, inflammatory, provocative, defamatory, pornographic, vulgar, lewd, violent, racist, offensive or inappropriate and commercial elements.

• Entries must be original:If a painting is found to be infringing on copyright, it will be disqualified.

Entrants who provide any entries that do not meet the size requirements and that are incomplete, illegible or contain false or incorrect information may be disqualified from participating as a result.

Participants can only submit their work and complete informationfurthermoreSuccessful payment of relevant (registration or exhibition) feesParticipation will be considered successful only after that, and the participant will receive a valid personalised copy of this campaign via email.Entry Codewith a personal landing space.

The information provided by the participants on their honour isaccurate and truthfuland agree to be requested by the organiser of the event to provide relevant documents to verify the accuracy and truthfulness of the information, if required.

Participants are required to Letter dated 30 November 2025 from the Permanent Representative of The organisers must have previously sent the organisers a high-resolution scanned image of their work (PDF or Jpg, png, tiff format, file size up to 5M), and a video work in video format (up to 25M) via the platform. The information submitted must contain the information mentioned in the above rule.

Upload file name format Enty Code + Artwork Title

Example:2025-06-JPA-XX-XXXX-ACX-XXXXXX-Your Artwork Title.jpg

The Entry Code is obtained from the email notification after successful registration, and the Entry Code will be effective after the payment is completed.

The selection and deliberations of the jury will be 1 January to 15 February 2026Between to take place. The winners will be announced no later than 2026 1 MarchPublication.

Once the list of winners has been confirmed, the organisers will contact the winners individually in order to facilitate communication and explain the rest of the process of the event. The winners will send their entries by letter post or parcel post to the designated location (the exact address will be communicated by the organisers and the cost of postage will be borne by the entrant).

The winner will receive:

• Certificate of merit issued by the French organizational unit and/or its partner institutions.

• Exhibition opportunities in China and France

• Opportunity to travel to France to participate in children's and youth art exchange groups or online children's art education enlightenment and training programmes.

• Surprise gift for the first 100 participants!

The winners' works are scheduled to be exhibited in France and Asia in early 2026.

The rewards for this activity are divided into persons respond in singing Group Agency Award.

• Individual awards includeThe "Artist of the Future Award", the "Outstanding Work Award", the "Special Attention Award" and the "Jury Award for Artistic Potential". Jury Prize for Artistic Potential".

• Group organization awards include:The "Award for Excellence in Arts Education" (for three or more winners among the organizations and institutions participating in the event) and the "Award for Supporting the Arts Development of Children and Youth" (for 10 or more participants among the organizations and institutions participating in the event). (for 10 or more participants from organizations and institutions participating in the event).

The French jury had: 

Floc'h (jury member emeritus), top French illustrator, film poster artist, cartoonist and novelist; Aude de Kerros, renowned French oil painter, printmaker, art movement and art critic; Tong Ming, artist and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in France; Martial Chmielina Verschaeve, director of the public Higher School of Fine Arts of the Grand Nord (Nord-Pas de Calais) and graduate student group of the French Academy of Fine Arts (Romuald Guiboux, Edusha Lassissi, Lucie Marchand and Sol Tissot). Director of the branch of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the group of postgraduate students enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (Romuald Guiboux, Edusha Lassissi, Lucie Marchand and Sol Tissot).

Use of digitisation of works

The participant expressly authorises the Organiser and all its partners to use the electronic images of his/her submission, as well as the digital images and photographs of his/her work that have been filmed and scanned at a later stage of the event, for an unlimited period of time and without restriction (all forms of images and photographs, including NFT, hereinafter referred to as "Images"). The use includes the Organiser's and its partners' websites and social networking platforms, and allows the Organiser and its partners to license the Images to third parties (in particular newspapers and magazines) for the purpose of publicising and promoting the event.

In general, by taking part in this event, the participant acknowledges having been informed and declares to be fully aware of the fact that, in order to better publicise and promote the event and the business activities of the organisers of the event and their partners, the organisers and their partners may, for the duration of the lawful term of the protection of the author's rights, and within the extensions that may be granted by law or by international conventions, use, reproduce, display and/or make available to the public, in any form and in any manner whatsoever, images and pictures of drawings submitted by the participants disseminate the images and pictures of the drawings submitted by the participants, in particular the sponsoring partners and/or sponsors seeking the event.

The organisers undertake to mention the name of the author when promoting and presenting the work or part of it.

Use of winners' original works

The winner authorises the organisers to reproduce print and display the original work in any private or public exhibition (whether awarded or not). In order to publicise and promote the event and the exhibition displays involved in the event, the winner also authorises the organiser and his/her partners to reproduce in print or digitally scan his/her original work in any form and to disseminate it to the public.

In view of the non-commercial nature of the use described in the previous article of these rules, the authorisation involved is granted free of charge by the Participant.

Unless expressly permitted in writing by the Organisers, until the end of the competition, the participant undertakes not to use his/her participation work (including images of the work) outside the scope of the competition and, in particular, not to enter into any other transfer or licensing agreement or contract other than this one, regardless of whether the use of the work (including electronic images of the work) in question is free of charge or for a fee.

One year after the closing date of that year's competition, participants are free to use the images of their work.

The originals of the winners' entries will be kept by the organisers after the competition and can be found in the Rules of the"Authorisation to use entries"Use within the scope. If the winner or the participant of the exhibition wishes to retrieve the original, the costs will be borne by the winner.

Any technical, legal or financial limitations or constraints, even if they do not legally constitute force majeure, due to which the smooth running of the competition may be impeded, the organizer reserves the right to modify the current conditions of the event rules and, in the most serious cases, to shorten, delay or cancel the competition. In this case, the organizer undertakes to inform the participants of the event by appropriate means (e-mail, telephone or post office).

The dates and venues of the various events provided for in these rules and regulations are indicated on a provisional basis and may be subject to change due to external constraints or changes in the schedule, in particular texts, laws or regulations of any nature that restrict or affect the operation of the event, especially in the context of a possible health crisis caused by an epidemic. The dates of the event (in particular the publication of the results, the schedule of exhibitions, etc.) may be changed during the event, and the organizers and co-organizers will inform the participants of such changes by appropriate means.