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[atomicdragon]

Since Karn has been having trouble with her connection lately, I will be posting the results of the art contest (which also means some patience is needed about prizes, as Karn will contact the winners some time later).  The original rules thread can be found here.
 
First, a note about the scores.  As mentioned in the rules, there were three categories scored out of ten points: creativity, artistic ability, and the write-up.  The scores from the three judges were added up to get the scores listed below, which should hence be out of a total of 90 each.  The half way points of the scales were mostly chosen by judges to represent what an average person putting in decent effort would produce, so that a total of 45 out of 90 would be average (not average of the contestants, as their average is skewed by the fact average people tend not to enter contests...).  Lastly, those that did not submit a write-up essentially got a zero in the write-up category, making their scores effectively out of 60 points, so they may seem low despite doing above average in other categories.
 
All of the entries are posted in a new album of the gallery created for this contest here.
 
And finally, the results, with links to their gallery image where write-ups can also be found:
 
First prize:
ShimdraShaul's Otterdrake, Score: 76
(dA entry also found here)
 
Second prize:
Neio's Belgian Drake, Score: 75
(dA entry also found here)
 
Third prize:
Airy's Cavisaurus (Guinea pig dragon), Score: 71
 
TiamatShapeShifter's Giraffe Dragon, Score: 62
 
Tiamat's Dragorilla, Score: 61
(dA entry also found here)
 
Hebby's Tiger Dragon, Score: 60
 
Joe Capricorn's Grasshopper Dragon, Score: 36
 
Desikitteh's Bottle Dragon, Score: 30
(dA entry also found here, which mentions this was a quick doodle to cheer up Karn)

[Shimdrashula]

Hooray! XD

I win! :D

I never put this in my entry, but the time it took to finish the picture was about 20 - 30 hours. After reading all the other entries I began wondering if I was doing something wrong, but then again, it was very brush and color-intensive work. Ideally, I'd like my lines to come out sharper to rid it of the dreamscape-like painting effect. But so it goes...

[JoeCapricorn]

I had another entry, but it was also a sketch and probably wouldn't have gotten that much because it wouldn't have been colored... but I did a dragon mixed with a wallaby type creature. I forget the name of it, and Wikipedia will not load.

[Neio]

:D

This was really a fun theme.  You guys came up with some really creative dragons.

[booklover492001]

Yay! pretty all around. The bottle was quite amusing. Congratulations to Shimdrashula!

[W_Dragon]

Nice entries, the bottle is funny though it's not an animal.

Congrats Shimdra :dragon_happy:

[aaarhus]

Kind of wish I had gotten mine in, but it's ok all the same.

The second work in progress is here actually:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/50314958/

Supposed to be a goat. Someone made a comment to me that it looked like that one thing from Never Ending Story. And... seeing a goat eating grass today on a TV at work, I think I got some of the details right. Just needs more work... might make a second one. :3

Congrats to Shimdra on the win, and I'm going to look at the different entries. :D

[Airy]

Congratulations Shimdra!  Someone put quite a bit of effort into the contest. :D

Well, it was kind of fun.  And I managed to get third place out of the deal.  :drag_bounce:
(I'm excited like only a third place finisher can be.)

[Selroth]

Excellent job everyone, and congrats to Shimi and many more!  It was a very enjoyable and successful contest.  The next one is coming up very soon.  I got it all programmed up an just need to wait until I get home :)

[Neio]

Are there going to be more themed contests like this?

[atomicdragon]

That is the plan assuming we can keep interest in it or even increase it from what we've seen so far.  They will probably be pretty varied, such that they involve more or less art skill in some cases, or even be completely unrelated to art but instead depend on other kinds of creativity.

[JoeCapricorn]

I'll participate again. ^_^

[Ravtrag]

Ill be in the next one!

[Selroth]

I was thinking of making them bi-monthly, so there's a rest period of a month.  We're off to a great start, so I'm sure you'll see at least a few more.  If we start having trouble with contests based on creativity, we may start calling them "events" instead which could be gaming events, or such.  But, that may not happen for a while.

[Tiamat]

great job for everybody,,,

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