♦ jellykiwi's art + design contest [WINNERS ON PG 27] ♦

[Clowesia]

@winter & fireflii
taptothebeat never said that only quantity matters, they only felt like the entries were judged more like quality over quantity, not quality and quantity are worth the same like it was stated. c:

Quality will always be held in higher favour than quantity and to think otherwise is naive.
Quantity will only play a part in the judging as a tie breaker between two equally nice pieces when a decision cannot be made between them.

drawing many pieces of art is actually more of not only a time commitment but also effort. TToTT

Not it doesn't and no it isnt, to think otherwise is incredibly disrespectful and insulting to the winners, You have no idea how long they took on their artwork.

This whole thing is childish because believe it or not, your effort doesn't matter, the time you put into it or the nights you stayed up late at night worrying about, the only thing that matters is the final product you produce. You don't submit a giant back story telling the judge the effort you put into the piece because it doesn't matter. I put in two pieces or art that I spent a lot of time of, I didn't place and I don't care. Jelly has her reasons as she doesn't need to explain them to me, because all that matters is what she finds most attractive in the winners.

Art, and judging art, is subjective. Some people like one type of art, some people like the other. There are inherent risks of entering an art contest and you fully know that when you enter it, no one forced you. Don't try to put your bad feelings on jelly to guilt her.

If you have a problem, its your own and you should not try to place it on Jelly who ran an extremely profession contest and handled everything well. I'd know, I've run several art contests before.

If you have a problem with how this contest is run, don't enter an art contest again.

Any other issues, take it to PM, you're turning what was a lovely contest into a spectacle. Take your loses graciously.

[wumbo.]

yes, honestly if you weren't happy with how you were judged or placed or whatever, either keep it to yourself or take it to a PM. i'm sure the winners worked extremely hard on their pieces and i wouldn't doubt it at all; to put them down like that is terrible. if this ever happened to me, i would feel like total crap if someone bashed me right after me won. sure, quantity is great and all, but HQ art will always trump quantity. kiwi more than likely had an extremely tough time picking the winners, i wouldn't be able to handle an art contest or probably a contest at all, i would feel wayy too guilty. it's totally okay to me that i didn't win, entering contests give you experience and gives more art to the host. if i went into a contest thinking to myself "yeah, i'm totally going to win because i gave the most quantity and my art is pretty high quality!! they'll have no problem picking me!!" WOW i would need to re-think my entire life. the winners probably put just as much work into their pieces as any other contestant, if not more. designs are VERY VERY hard to come up with, heck my best design would probably be some original border collie or something.
sorry that was really long lmao

[taptothebeat]

I didn't mean what I wrote disrespectfully. Nor was I saying that people didn't deserve to win. I endorsed the winners in my prior post. I didn't send it via pm because I was and am not attacking anyone. I also accept her judgement for the entries, I think the winning entries are wonderful. I don't see any problem with how she judged. I just felt that it wasn't clarified well in the beginning.

I was just stating what seemed to happened from my perspective. I meant for me, it takes me longer to do many arts than one. Not for everyone. And perhaps it is naive, but if no one says anything I will never know.

Hope that clarifies things. ^.^'

[trickszy]

I would like you to keep my designs, because they were for this competition. Thanks for clearing that up, jelly!

backflips away to find an art program with tutorials

[Razihel]

Heyooooo we should totally stop arguing about this stuff b/c I am sure it's frustrating for Kiwi to see that all of this effort into setting up this contest and dealing out prizes professionally, and all of the effort that all the artists put in is being sullied by a dumb argument. ;w; I mean, not to say that anyone who is participating in it is dumb, so much as the argument itself is quite pointless and rather unnecessary. Just a friendly suggestion-- but I don't think that it's worth the time or the effort for everyone, and by bumping the topic consistently upwards (which yes, I know, I am doing so by posting this) more people will just see what's happening, and I know (hope) that everyone who didn't win is grateful that she even wanted to send out entry prizes, like come on you guys this is for fun-- it's not high stakes or anything. ;w; It would be really cool if we could make a group effort to just drop it if maybe possible? ;w;

[jellykiwi]

alright, all the trades for entry prizes have been sent out! thanks for being patient with me uvu

unfortunately, when I tried entering some usernames to trade, an error showed up.
so if you are/were one of the following, please let me know so I can give you your prize:

Guldbreads
S.C.O.U.R.G.E
reix

[trickszy]

alright, all the trades for entry prizes have been sent out! thanks for being patient with me uvu

unfortunately, when I tried entering some usernames to trade, an error showed up.
so if you are/were one of the following, please let me know so I can give you your prize:

Guldbreads
S.C.O.U.R.G.E
reix

ah, that's me, guldbreads. I changed my name ^-^