In collaboration with Mobius Academy Malaysia, Artbat proudly presents the High School Digital Art Battle Malaysia 2025 — an online competition dedicated to discovering the next generation of Malaysian digital artists.
Showcase your talent and claim your place among Malaysia’s future digital art scene!
Malaysian high school students aged 16 to 18.
No Application Fee required.
Submission Period (Preliminary Round)
25th July - 25th August 2025
Introduction Briefing on Zoom
8th August 2025
Top 16 Briefing on Zoom:
29th August 2025
Top 16 Online Battle :
30th August 2025 [Online]
Top 8 to Finals :
13th September 2025 [Offline]
@ Mobius Academy Kota Damansara
Create an Artbat Artist account to join the Malaysia Highschool Digital Art Battle 2025
Participants must set up an artist account before joining the competition.
Preliminary Round Submission Topic
“One Adjective + One Noun”
All submitted artwork must creatively express one adjective and one noun.
For example: “ Magical + Door”
Download the PPT Signup and submission guide [Here]
🏆1st Prize
RM 1,000 Cash by Mobius Academy
RM 10,000 Tuition Rebate by Mobius Academy
XP Pen Artist 13 2nd Gen Digital Display Tablet
Art showcase opportunity at Hong Kong illustration and Creative Show 2025 [by ARTBAT]
Custom Design Fashion Merchandise [by Genesis One]
🏆 2nd Prize
RM 500 Cash by Mobius Academy
RM 5,000 Tuition Rebate by Mobius Academy
XP Pen Deco 01 V3 Drawing Tablet
Custom Design Fashion Merchandise [by Genesis One]
🏆3rd Prize
RM 300 Cash by Mobius Academy
RM2,000 Tuition Rebate by Mobius Academy
XP Pen Deco mini 7 V2 Drawing TabletArtist
Custom Design Fashion Merchandise by Genesis One
🏆1st Consolation Prize
RM 1,000 Tuition Rebate by Mobius Academy
🏆2nd Consolation Prize
RM1,000 Tuition Rebate by Mobius Academy
Brandon Choo (Malaysia)Illustrator & Concept DesignerA passionate illustrator and concept designer with over a decade of experience in the gaming and entertainment industry. Brandon has worked with renowned companies such as Blizzard, Bandai Namco, Bethesda, Capcom, EA, and more.
Guanyinma (Malaysia)Senior Graphic Designer and IllustratorA senior graphic designer and illustrator with 15 years of teaching experience. As an art director and visual artist, she’s worked on major projects like Nike by You (Nike Shanghai) and exhibited her work across Singapore, Taiwan, and China.
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Ernest Ng (Malaysia)CartoonistThe cartoonist behind Bro, Don’t Like That La, Bro—— one of Malaysia’s most iconic webcomic series. During the 2020 lockdown, his Covidball Z comics from If Malaysia Was an Anime went viral, turning Malaysian politics and current events into epic anime-style storylines. Sharp, funny, and unapologetically local, Ernest’s work became a voice for Malaysians and is always ridiculously relatable.
Mike Ha (Hong Kong)Co-Founder of Artbat Live The co-founder of the art-tech platform ARTBAT LIVE with a mission to empower artists to showcase their talent through digital innovation. He has led the organization in hosting over 300+ digital art battles on a global stage, redefining how creative talents connect, compete, and shine in the digital era.
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Moses Iu (Hong Kong)Comic Artist and IllustratorCreator of Morning, Sean
His work has been exhibited at Comic Festa in Malaysia and the Angoulême International Comics Festival in France.
The panel of judges consists of 3 Malaysian judges and 2 Hong Kong judges.
1. Idea and Creativity (25%)
2. Composition (15%)
3. Technique and Colour (15%)
4. Completeness (15%)
5. Artistic Style (20%)
6. Storytelling (10%)
By submitting your artwork, you hereby declare that you are the sole creator of the submitted artworks; you own 100% of the copyright and your artworks do not infringe any third-party copyright, including but not limiting to intellectual property rights, copyrights, rights of portrait, confidentiality and privacy. Contestants will bear all legal liabilities and be responsible for any litigations and compensations arising from the breach of law and regulations. The Organizer, project partner, media partners, sponsors, supporting organizations and related parties disclaim any legal disputes or liabilities of using and publishing the artworks, and contestants shall indemnify the Organizer, project partner, media partners, sponsors, supporting organizations and related parties against any losses they might suffer as a result of any artwork breaching third party rights.
By entering the competition, you agree to grant ARTBAT LIVE the right to display, distribute, store, reproduce, edit, modify, create derivative works of, and otherwise use and reuse the artwork (or any portions or derivative works of the artwork) in any manner, for any promotional and marketing purposes through all our marketing channels including but not limited to our websites and any of our social media channels such as Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, or any online and offline channels.
ARTBAT LIVE can authorize and assign any partner, or subsidiaries the same rights.The rights that you granted are non-exclusive, that means you are free to grant rights to others. ARTBAT LIVE will not have to pay additional compensation when exercising above rights.
ARTBAT LIVE, a HK-based digital art battle that strives to become a platform to unleash artists’ instant creativity, and has been committed to holding international digital art live painting competitions. Since 2020, we have organized over 200 art battles and attracted over 1,000 artists from 35 countries to participate. With the cutting edge of Esports and art technologies, we've created the next frontier in digital entertainment.
