Results for Drawing Contest #1: Animals in Competitive Sports

Wow, got some great entries. Congrats everyone on the nice work!

Great work everyone can't wait for another contest

Nice work everyone! It was a fun contest and I hope there will be many to come.

Parka we gotta do this more often! It was awesome fun and look at all the beautiful works!
Congratulations everyone!

Wow, the standards were so high! I was expecting just quick sketches, but some people went all out, props to them. Game face on next time though. Well done everyone, so many amazing pieces, very hard to pick a favourite.

the best!!!!!

these are all amazing! i'm gonna have to go with sng2

Bình chọn cho ZinPH !!! Good luck!

Man, I'm glad I didn't join.. my stuff looks like grade school scribbles compared to these *sulk*

I loved the topic for this first contest..i had so many ideas for this but ill have to wait for the next one. Great site and book reviews mr. Parka:D

Congrats to the Powree! Definitely captured the competitive nature of the sport.

My favorites are: ZinPH, Nori Tominaga, and Tiffany Varga. Amazing artists and amazing pieces!

Can't wait for the next contest! I was unable to participate because of school and work.

Grrreat drawings!!!
My favorite is Mor Borenstajn.

next time i would advise against voting competitions, when it comes to real prizes
lot's of time they are really popularity contests, who can ask enough friends who will get their asses in front of a computer and enter this site, signup and vote.
on one hand at least a few of them are bound to come back to the site, so as a way of advertising, it has it benefits, but i hardly believe it is a fair judging method.
my advice to you, that in future competition you either choose all the winners your self, or point impartial judges from people you know you can trust., and give a first and second prizes.

that what i think
but it was a splendid competition
with allot of splendid drawings
great job every one

I agree with GAD too!!

I have to disagree with GAD.

Let's face it. Voting is predominantly biased today. The same can be said for many situations. In American Idol, the person who wins may not necessarily be the best. He may have got through rounds with the help of his large circle of friends who have money and religiously vote. Or he may also get through based on his looks.

Even in other voting systems ranging for competitions to politics, people get through with a number of other factors apart from the main voting point. Factors like charisma, looks, dressing, style and fan base (consisting of friends and strangers) all help to push a person into it. To give an example, some people may not have voted for Obama in the last American election race even though they love his policy reforms, but not the colour of his skin.

Do you think product companies win all their customers by their design alone? They design advertisements promising you a lifestyle, a luxury and many other intangible things attached to a product.

The voting system in this blog is such that you have to register before voting. If your friend is willing to go all the way to set up an account to vote for you, why not? And besides, if your friend is smart enough he may enter and decide to vote objectively when he realises he likes the other art better as compared to yours.

The whole voting system is no longer a completely objective process. As admirable as your honesty is, such a value would reflect well on yourself but may be overtaken in the a superficial world.

I do not think anyone who voted for themselves or got their friends to vote are wrong. They want to win this badly, and so they worked for it. They garnered their friends to vote for them, and if you want to win too, then you have to show it and work for it. You can't just sit on your butt and hope that people come to you. You have to go out there and win them over.