I guess I might as well reply to a bit of this...
Disregard as per usual.
Cenere. Letâs be real here. This looks rushed compared to the normal work that you enter
The work on the picture alone, not including thumbnailing and detail-work, probably came down to three hours. Whether this is rushed to you, I don't know, but if you are judging compared to what I normally put up in my thread, it's about two hours, forty-five minutes of work put into it more than most of what I normally do.
It was impossible to make out the right hand even from three inches away from the screen, while the other arm did not match well with the forearm.
The hand is not important to the picture. The forearm is looking like that due to the arm rest and the loose clothing.
The sketch marks on the window makes it look very unprofessional.
I am not a professional.
Everything âinsideâ of the window looks a lot better. The bird looks alright, and it goes well with the blossoming flowers.
Thanks. Note here, this is the only compliment. I will come back to that later.
Not quite sure of the reason for not coloring in the whole window.
For the same reason everything below her shoulders are sketchy.
The man being left white was a smart move; it really emphasizes the bars that forever hold him to that wheelchair.
Her. It's a woman. And honestly, the wheelchair is her only mean of transportation at this point.
Maybe next time Cenere.
Perhaps not.
If I may talk about the picture for a moment. While there are stray lines, pretty much everything was left like that deliberately. While there is no real imprisonment in the drawing, it's full of symbols. The outside is bright and colourful, but she doesn't see it, because often, when you have lost everything besides your life, there isn't much colour to the world. She is bedridden, more or less, but while her body isn't working (hence sketchy and vague), her mind is still as strong as it was when she was young. Her body is however dying with her through some deadly disease and the methods and means the doctors have used to save her life. She is caught, not only in a white world of a hospital or hospice, but also in her own body. Her own weaknesses has stripped her of all the things she once had, pride, beauty and freedom, and she will never get to go outside again. The next time she leaves will be in a casket.
As such, with all of that wearing down, her world is getting less and less important, and she curls up into herself, mentally, while trying to stay strong, or at least try to look like she is staying strong for her children, grandchildren or husband, but she knows whenever she sees them, it might be the last time, and after so many waken hours thinking of it, she had grown numb to it all, just like the world has grown vague and colourless to her sight.
Killersup has viewed some of Cenere's art under the radar, and just felt like Cenere had not given a full attempt. The reason for noting that is simply for the reason that it might strive Cenere to strive to make his next picture better.
I don't have much to strive for. The compliments are limited and the constructive critiques even more so.
Especially when I am putting in a lot, and get told I didn't put in all.
Noteworthy, I actually have none of my usual tools. Borrowed pencils never work well.
Wouldn't it be a better idea to judge the art alone and not the artist who made it? As a judge, you're expected to look at each submission and compare them, not the artist's skill. Frankly, when you judge you shouldn't consider the artist at all.
I don't mind the artist being considered, as long as this does not make some artists stand out for better or worse. Judgings that go by "you usually do this, but you didn't, so you are making mistakes" are destructive.
Otherwise agreeing.
If Killersup would have known that there was such a movie series he would have watched it. This weekend sounds great. Was not shrugging it off as if you were the problem, simply explaining.
Age tends to be a bad excuse for now knowing stuff. You can't expect us to draw art relevant for the last eight years. Using age as an excuse, we would not even be able to draw the World Trade Center collapse for a relevant theme.
You have the means to research something by being on the internet, and your judgings should at least reflect a superficial understanding of what you are looking at, otherwise you will be basing the judging on wrong reasons.
@Strop's post, since it is relevant:
The nature entry was a rush job. I actually stated it would be so before posting it, since I would be leaving shortly after, and would not have time to do a proper entry. So, it is fine that it did not win. The base for the judging, however, was not.
There was no issue in not issuing a winner, however, as Sal's image might not have been judged equally to a drawn entry, and I believe Kega was the winner of the nature theme, and would have been unable to win this round.
I honestly do find your judging, Killersup, to be superficial and literal, and that you have a strong bias towards realism. I don't know if that is true, as Strop mentions, you seem to focus more on execution rather than what the content is or what concept lies behind. This can be tiresome, but probably good for those so inclined.
@Sal's entry: While it does not say anything about not submitting photographs, you would probably have received a marginal judging from me. It's hard to judge fairly when comparing to drawn/created art, just like how an animation would pose different qualities than a still image would have.
However, your picture does rely a lot on text to explain the situation, and that would probably have been your bane, should I have been judging this round.
Also, it's kinda hard to draw a photo for a round.
Anyway, good luck everyone. Good luck to whoever will be judging this, it's a hard job, and you are a mighty warrior for trying this out.
I guess that was it.
