I've been working on this for a little while, but think I need to start over and take it in a new direction. There are some things I like about it, but it has a completely different feeling to what was intended. It all fits into my unofficial motto though: "quit early; quit often" I enjoy restarting pieces from scratch until I get them the way I want. This is mostly due to my bad habit of jumping the gun on new projects and sometimes not doing sufficient prep-work when I'm excited about starting the real piece. I've gotten a lot better about it, but every now and then I'll still charge ahead before I'm ready. Sometimes it works out in exciting ways, but more often than not I'll end up back at the drawing board; with a very detailed color-study. At least I get a blog post out of it now though.
I saw this Scion-sponsored art contest at http://www.kongregate.com/collabs
The grand prizes are actually pretty good.
If you don't know, Kongregate is a sort of collaborative Flash-games site; and has the sort of user base that you would expect.
This art contest is all over the place; there aren't any submission rules or standards, you don't need to provide any real profile information and it's being voted on by what I would assume is an audience of primarily teenage boys killing time in Comp Sci class. There's already a lot of plagiarized work up there and I can't imagine that there's going to be any way to prevent all fraudulent voting. I think the winner will be decided more by whoever has the biggest social network than anything else.
I put a piece up just to see what would happen with it; there seems to be such a tide of new submissions coming in that entries are buried pretty quickly.
I really do not envy the curators that have to sort out that mess.
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