Project Comment Contest Winners!

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We have our results from ProjectComment's Comment Contest! :la:

First, I would like to say a massive thank you to our judges...

:iconriemea: :iconfelizias: :iconastrikos:

... for judging the constructive comments! If you have time, go to their pages and spam them with love! :love:

Onto the winners...

First Place: DorianHarper

The Ravens by DorianHarper PoetryChained to this present,
The powerless poet dreams-
Of a future without identical lines,
No two people falling together in rhyme.
Gambling with death,
Each love drifting away by the hour.
Urgently then...
Time is forged on shadowy grounds.
His brush teaching all that is true,
Reach to the precious verse written,
Her life and love will be poetry.

Feel free to browse the comments they made!
comments.deviantart.com/1/3520… comments.deviantart.com/1/3556… comments.deviantart.com/1/3622…
Excerpt from one of their comments:
I really love the subject of this photo. Nature photography has always been my favorite, but that's not what drew me in. I think what really caught my eye was the softness that the photo gives off. All the tones are so beautiful and smooth that they are really pleasing to the eye. Also, because of the smoothness, the textures that are in the photograph stand out so much more: like the leaf (?) that the ladybug is walking on. The creases/veins are simply amazing and such a stark contrast to the smoothness that it catches the viewer's eye right away. Well done!

Now, for my constructive comments:

Typically, most will say not to put the subject of a photograph directly in the center. While you have the nice balance of softness up top and the textured lower corner, the ladybug is still what the eye is drawn to first, and it's directly in the middle of the piece. Had it been a little off center (either taken or cropped), the eye would have more room to wander. Perhaps a suggestion would be to crop some of the softness area from the top and give the ladybug a bit of an off-centered position, while still having the areas of softness and the textures within the piece. This way, the eye will move from soft to ladybug to texture and get a good balance of everything all at once. It's just a suggestion!


Second Place: Madame-Rien


Feel free to browse the comment they made!
comments.deviantart.com/1/3594…
Excerpt from their comment:
To start I really really like the background in this piece, I love how naturalistic it appears. The transition between the blues works very well for your art and it allows for great contrast between the lovely young lady and the light blue background and adds more emphasis to the subject. I also like how you added more detailing with the snow, the snow is not just perfect circle balls they vary in shape and size and that is great observation and very convincing to :)

I also like your color scheme with the blues and how you incorporated the color into the subject like with her eyes and her top, it compliments the piece very well. I also love your great textures with the hair and the transition between the highlights and the rest of the hair, because hair is rarely ever one solid color ( the color is usually depending on the environment ) and I do really like how you incorporated that into your piece :)


Third Place: sheorun

Coming to Life by sheorun Row House by sheorun Phoenix by sheorun
Feel free to browse the comment they made!
comments.deviantart.com/1/1052…
Excerpt from their comment:
I really like the overall appearance of the dragon. It lets me think of the classical type of dragon but also gives it a nice twist when looking at the head and the design for the wings you hint at. Since you only detailed in the mid parts of the picture I guess you wanted to try some sort of fading out to the edges and give the image more focus. I like such techniques but I'd say it does not come really through in this case. The brick wall behind him is one cause for this I'd say. It is pretty much detailed in almost every part of your work. Maybe even more in those parts, where the dragon himself is not offering too much detail or even less than the wall behind him. That makes it seem you somehow lost track of your design in this spaces. It works quite fine in the right part of the drawing however. The brick has just a bit of shading and the dragon offers great contrasts in these places without to much detail to loose the focus in the mid. And then this technique starts to work. But in the left half you see the opposite.


Honourable Mentions

Feel free to browse the comments they made!
Agdorn and their constructive comment!

f1utterby3 and their constructive comment!


We would like to thank everyone so much for participating and we hope you all had fun doing so! There will be more opportunities in future for contests, so watch this space! :heart:

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Congratulations to all the winners - some great comments there! :clap: