COMMISSION INFORMATION: [link]

I've got 1 commission now!

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Edit: Wacom

So, I just browsed through the Semi-finalists again, seeing as how the winners will be announced very soon.

Some disturbing things about the contest-

1. [link] looks just like the famous [link]

2. [link] looks just like some of =One-Vox's angels. (For example, this: [link])

I am sorry, but this is just an insult to everyone. To think that the DA staff lack so much knowledge about very famous pieces! When I saw that Perspective piece, I had thought it WAS =One-Vox. I can't believe this artist is saying he's never seen =One-Vox's work either. I think that's a blatant lie, considering the artist in question rose to fame BECAUSE of his unique take in his Angel Series.

Furthermore, quite a few of those entries on there have signatures on them. Um, what? The rules say VERY CLEARLY that NO distinguishing artist marks, such as signatures or watermarks, are allowed! To think that the judges, who can't even judge 75% originality worth crap, also can't adhere to black and white rules. To think that people who can copy others get a spot over people like *janaschi and ~monarchism! Infuriating.

I'm a bitch, but I want those entries who can't follow rules and ones that clearly copy/borrow from other artists out of the running. Completely unacceptable.

Right now I'm seriously rooting for =cryslara, who is completely amazing and original.

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Hi everyone, I've updated my Contest entry (should be in your inbox). If not, here's a link: [link]

Unfortunately I lost my subscription and therefore can't display thumbnails anymore.

As I've explained on my deviation, I'm breaking the rules by updating it. Because I had no chance of making to any finals round anyways, I decided to patiently work on it throughout the week, in order to truly "bring my vision to life".

I'm very happy with this picture, and I don't really care that I'm not winning anything. In a few days I'll update it with a signature too (I hated that rule in the Contest, where you weren't allowed to put any "distinguishing artists' marks")

I've learned a lot from making this image. Not just in drawing and coloring, but just background information too. I've experimented a lot with textures, brushes, painting styles and layer adjustments. I've learned new things about Photoshop that will surely help my workflow. For example, I created a chain brush for myself.

The process that I made this image is entirely different from all of my other pictures, and I'm happy with how it turned out.

Anyways, it's important to list out and give credentials to references, so here we go:

CREDITS:

1. The different skulls
Human: [link]
Horse: [link]
Pig: [link]
Cow: [link]
Frog: [link]
Goat: [link]
Dog: [link]
Bear: [link]

2. Brushes used are by and

3. Textures by cgtextures, under paper category.

4. Pose and anatomy reference is my own photo of my two good friends, Alisa and Kari. I prefer not to post it because I don't have their permission to publicly broadcast their image.

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Now let's talk about the Wacom Contest semi-finalists.

Personally, I like the entries; they are all very high quality and beautiful. However, my issue is with the whole "originality" factor. A majority of those pictures are the stereotypical angel/demon relationships. This is a problem because Wacom advertised weighing Originality as 50%. To me, it seems like false advertising; if they said they wanted "pretty art" to promote the Intuos, I'd be perfectly ok. It seems they just clicked "Popular" and picked the entries from there, because I've seen a LOT MORE original entries than those.

Second, I also take issue with the fact that someone has TWO entries chosen as semi-finalists. I find that extremely unfair, especially because the entries are virtually the exact same thing and completely unoriginal as well. No offense meant to the person, because I find her very sweet and her artwork is lovely, this is a jab at the Wacom judges.

Thirdly, there are probably only 5-6 entries in there that AREN'T digital. I'm rooting for those entries because they are incredibly unique both in medium and subject matter. Even though Wacom is for digital, they expressed that ALL entries are welcome, in which case equal representation of traditional and digital should be fair. :\

Oh well, good luck everyone! Realize that I'm not bitching because I'm bitter. I'm really happy with how things turned out. I'm just saying that yet again, a deviantART contest fails to be truthful about what objectives they are REALLY looking for.

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I'm getting to all the comments and WILL start commenting on a lot of deviations now! That's the "Other" part in my journal title haha. However, I'm not going to reply to the wonderful comments left on "If You're Ever Around" ([link])

Mainly because it's a very personal image and I don't feel like going back to it at all.

I have a bunch of different WIPs in different stages so expect more art from me!!