Thanks so much for fixing my links Voluspa, I would have been pretty sad to be disqualified from this month! And Midscrawl thanks for the tip! I know I'm going to be doing that from now on.

GhostImage:

Kazky, thank you for a delay. Im kinda new to the challanges and dint know how to do it. I think i just clicked on someone elses wip link and just did the same. Anyhow I think i got mine fixed.

no problem ghost, i hoped everyone would manage to get the wips fixed

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Thank you to Voluspa for fixing my links. I don't know why I couldn't get this to work but thank you. 

Can I suggest the image posting guide be edited to include the work around info for those of us using browsers which don't like the link button.

Has this challenge been cancelled? How come there's no voting?

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Nick Avallone
AngryFungus Art Blog | Sketchbook

mr smolin could you please not change the challenge title.....:P

you should have read down a few posts, i gave an extra 24 hours as there were lots of wips not working etc 

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Sorry, Kaz. I must have misunderstood. I thought you meant to extend the deadline to midnight of March 1.

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Nick Avallone
AngryFungus Art Blog | Sketchbook

Smolin:

Sorry, Kaz. I must have misunderstood. I thought you meant to extend the deadline to midnight of March 1.

I think that's exactly what was done (at least that was my understanding as well, Smolin).  So being that it's March 3--can we vote now? I want to vote before I get busy and forget to come back in here in time.

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OK, my browser is both showing kaz as here and not here, so I hope we won't be doing the same thing twice... Anyway, time to vote - Name your first, second and third choice among the following entries (as far as I could tell, all links were now correct):

Domtopia

Helmighs

Ivan Garcia

Rageful

MercuryCat

Guang

Segujo

Joyjee

A-curious_twitch

HansNomad

Pupuchaku

Gnuchi

Smolin

Midscrawl

Claude Crow

Aocdb

Adventuregoat

GhostImage

Catzombie

Since the vote begins March 3rd, it will end on March 10th.

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Thanks for your hard work Kaz and Voluspa! Seems this challenge has been... well, a bit of a challange!

My votes are:

Gnuchi: I love the eye on the eagle and although I think it could have definitely benefited from more detail in the feathers, just to add a little more texture I love the overall feel and presence of the image. Really lovely work.

Smolin: The brushwork is strong and the character has the best weight and form of all the finalists for me. Plus it's fun and interesting.

Catzombie: Again lovely brushwork. The dragons' face is exellent and the style is simple which apeals to me. It's got a nice traditional feel too in my opinion.

My votes are these:

Midscrawl

Smolin

catzombie

1 Pupuchaku

2 Smolin

3 Catzombie (almost ripped my hair off before I decided the 3:rd, HansNomad was VERY close:)) 

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Kamapesa

1 Midscrawl 

2 Catzombie 

3 Guang 

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http://helmighs.deviantart.com

Fie! This is a tough choice to make...

• 1) HansNomad: Apart from being a great concept, it's beautifully rendered, perfectly composed, and above all, very dramatic. Lovely work.
• 2) Midscrawl: Yours is a very close second! Again, I love the concept, and it's painted with great skill and a keen observation of color & light. Fantastic job.
• 3) Catzombie: What I love about this image is the composition and use of texture and restrained color to actually help tell the story. But I think it could use a touch more color and wee bit more refinement.

A few other comments:

Domtopia: I loved yours, but the composition hurt it a bit. She's got great expression, I like the color scheme, and the anatomy on that leading hand is awesome.

Adventuregoat: Excellent concept and some really good anatomy on her hips and that foreshortened guy on the ground. I think it'd be improved by some deeper shadows and a few sharper edges for contrast.

Pupuchaku: A really great image, but I think adjusting the saturation would help unify the elements and add focus.

Helmighs: Great design and a well-balanced use of light & shadow, and restrained color. There's some stiffness in the anatomy but overall it came out really well.

Gnuchi: You really got that picture up to a wonderful level of finish. Excellent work.

Segujo: You busted your butt on it, and it shows. But the composition fell short for me.

 

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Nick Avallone
AngryFungus Art Blog | Sketchbook