User blog comment:UltiVerse/Winter Fanon Con 2016: Art Competition Results/@comment-3441048-20161223055802

I gotta admit, I'm a little surprised by the results (and reasoning too, I guess) as well.

Just wanna justify my art piece first before I get into it. First of all, thanks for the nice comments to anyone that liked it, I'm glad you did. Second off, yes, I know it's not colored and I know that colored pictures are more impressive but I didn't have enough time to color it and make proper edits. But I guess that also jumps me over to why I'm a little bothered by the reasons and most criticism. I feel like saying "it's not colored" is just not a proper criticism/reason, yet it's something I keep hearing over and over again here and in real life. I was actually relieved to hear what Aaron had to say because it told me what I can improve on and it didn't judge the piece based on having color or not. Like he said, not all art needs to be colored. However, I do understand that color can make art stand out, it can give it more definition (as seen in the other entries). I'm not against using color, it's just that black and white is a style I'm more comfortable with when it comes to drawing on paper.

Art Rant aside, I liked the other entries.

Aaron's Entry is kinda thought provoking, it's also attractive (from a distance, however). The characters are well made, the effects are grand and it really connects with space as a theme, which reels me in even more. However, like Yopo said, they do look a bit off but I don't blame you if that's just your art style, we all have different ways of creating specific characters. And I also don't see how it relates to perspective as much as CaT's or my own (without any bias).

CaT's Entry took me a bit of time to process but the more I look at it, the more it stands out as a perspective art entry and an art entry with a lot of effort put into it. I guess what really threw me off the first time was my understanding of perspective which CaT seemed to manipulate with his entry so that it really makes you reconsider the meaning which is what art is meant for, to give meaning. At least, that's what it means to me. I also like how it captures all- most of the Featured Characters of 2016 and essentially BTFF as a whole. And it has Drake in it which also took me a bit of time to notice but yeah, he looks cool.

Sorry for the long post, I just needed to get all this art stuff out of my system. After looking at all of the entries for like the tenth time now, I gotta say CaT, Aaron, Brandon seems like the better choice.