2/7/2026 UPDATE: THE VOTING IS CLOSED FOR THIS CATEGORY THIS YEAR. YOU CAN SEE THE WINNERS HERE.
It’s time to vote for your favorite entries in both the Blood & Plunder Commanders and Characters categories! Please vote once in each category. Voting will run from Monday 2/2 through the end of Friday February 6. You are welcome to share with friends and family but only one vote per person per category.
There is some stiff competition this year! The judges had a hard time making their choices! Details for how the categories were narrowed can be found at the bottom of this page.
Make sure to scroll down to vote for both Commanders and Characters!
People’s Choice Voting for Blood & Plunder Commanders
Please choose your favorite, enter you name and email (for vote integrity), and click “submit” below.
You can peruse this gallery of all the images from these entries here if you want to be better informed!
You can see the complete gallery of all the Commander entries here.
People’s Choice Voting for Blood & Plunder Characters
Please choose your favorite, enter you name and email (for vote integrity), and click “submit” below.
You can see all the images associated with these entries in the gallery below;
You can find the complete gallery of all the Character entries here.
Winners’ Prizes
The top voted entry in each category will receive a fancy 2026 Great Pirate Paint Off medal and everlasting glory!
Method of Narrowing the Entries for People’s Choice Voting
We had a massive number of entries for these categories and we had to narrow them down to less then 10 for a People’s Choice style vote to work. To accomplish this we have a panel of 4 judges vote on their top entries and then compile those votes to present a smaller selection for everyone to vote on.
Each judge got to select their ranked top 8 entries in each category. A top choice gets 8pts, second choice gets 7pts, down to 1pt for their 8th. All those points are compiled from all 4 judges and that produces top set of entries. Then we keep the highest scoring entries from the top 8 contestants and present them here for public voting.
This last step of removing multiple entries from one contestant might seem odd, but it helps in two ways: it helps one painter from dominating the people’s choice, and it focuses their entries so voters that might really like their style aren’t splitting their votes between 2 very similar entries.
WOW! What great talent everyone has. Everyone put in such a wonderful effort. Thank you, it was a pleasure to see all your work and is an inspiration.