/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6536393
I'd need to see the other 429 sketchbooks to know

>>6536398
I sent mine so can't post it to you but here

also this

>>6536393
>uuuuuuKraaaaaine

It was rigged from the start with biased judges if there were no rules.

and this, there is just so many, i kinda wish more people were creative instead of blandly following reality

>>6536404
my vote goes to dog

>>6536406
>>6536404
>>6536400
>>6536393
none of these are particularly impressive desu.
The ones that did win are super fucking gay though. Ukraine nigger especially is just blatant pandering.

Why would people participate in such a contest?

Do you get your sketchbook back?
"Please, spend 300000 hours filling a sketchbook so we may or may not look at it, then award some of our friends with laundered money."

I'm assuming these are 99% women and children, no one reasonable would fall for this scam.

THEY DIDNT GIVE THE WIN TO UPPER RIGHT, NOOOOOO

>>6536404
purple dog green background is much better than anything that won
the yarn boy next to it is too.
top left dogs are better too

What was the prize for winning this garbage?

>>6536425
there is a money reward of 10k for first place so i obviously in my innocence wanted to get it, especially that someone i regard as smarter than me told me i've got good chances of success

Here is part of stuff i made, i've found some photos

>>6536433
But do you get your book back?
Because 432 x 50 pages (let's assume it's a short book) = 21600 artworks, or 46 cents per completed page.

They're collectively wasting more than 400 people's sweat and blood for no compensation, so the selection process should at the very least make sense.

I did win 10k from an essay-writing contest in the past, but 1st and 2nd place above me got 30k and 20k. Mine was objectively the best, 2nd play was fair enough, but 1st place was an extremely biased choice.
But I got me money, that's what matters.

PS: These are my two favorites.
But top one might be autistic.

Maybe i should just not bother and fuck off somewhere

>>6536443
i do get my books back after they are presented in a gallery for a month, so i guess all is good that ends good.
I do think that winner should have some kind of great hook, not be politically correct so the first three are just plain and boring for me.

Is it worth to even enter competitions bros or should i just wage my time away untill i build up a community to which i can sell my stuff?

I would assume the competition is for people under 21 given the naive beginner look to the sketchbooks, but the photos of the winners look like elderly people.
Is this really the current state of art?

>>6536453
I think they might be the judges

>>6536453
good assumption, the whole thing is for people currently in or graduating art related school or college. I guess only those fall for participating competitions because they think life is a 0 sum game

>>6536446
Entering competitions is usually a waste of time. Unless it's some giga-autistic competition where you're up against real autismos, some normie shit is always going to win. If it's any consolation I like your art but I think it's too aggressive for normies. They want "current thing" or cute

aright anons thanks for all the answers, i just needed a second hand opinion because i thought i was going insane.
/saging

>>6536440
>>6536444
>Maybe i should just not bother and fuck off somewhere
Do this.

>>6536494
You're not any better than the other ones if you care to know

>>6536494
You don't deserve the W but neither did any of the winners. Multiple other sketches you posted are conceptually and technically better but this was clearly a leftard nepobaby funding scam.

>>6536443
let me read your essay

>>6536404
>>6536412
I also vote dog

>>6537003
Twas long ago so I don't have it, and in another language.

>>6536923
>>6536949
Well it's not about me, i just thought that winners should be better than i am.

>>6536406
>eye in the washing machine
looks cool, wish I could get a closer look

>>6536393
Middle guy was def the best of the three, as well as yours, in my opinion, but I'd say you def beat 3rd guy (our right, their left), and most likely 1st guy (our left, their right). You had some stuff that was meh, but some of your best def beat the outer two, and I would say compete with mid guy, who was clearly pandering, and honestly if I was a judge, I would recommend expunging those for leveraging politics in an art competition. Of course, I'd put out a basic set of rules exactly for this reason, too.
Anybody worth any salt already knows that the artist was basically exploiting those colors for points anyways, and even detracts from their character for doing that.

This reminds me of a Halloween costume contest our anime club had at high school, and the winner? NOT the only guy dressed as an anime character (a shinigami from bleach), but the friend of many judges dressed as a gypsy (kek). I was a judge, and made my outrage known.
This is why we NEED rules and standards for competitions like this, otherwise it's just nepotism/politics