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And at the End, You Shall Remain Alone · FiM Minific ·
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#1 · 1
· · >>Rocket Lawn Chair
Ugh! Another great one!!

The perspective shot with celestia in the tub is amazing. I can only dream to do perspective successfully.

I love how the little bubbles express just how delicate mortals’ lives are, and the tiny little *pop* at the bottom is perfect.
#2 · 1
· · >>Rocket Lawn Chair
I can’t review all the art pieces all the time, so I’m only going to cover, say, half of the entries in this round.

The Good: Kudos, Artist, this is a beautiful and thoughtful piece. The figures are full of character and life, the spherical perspective is well handled, and the soap bubbles are both an excellent way to convey scenes from the past, and a metaphor for the transience of life. Well conceived, well composed, and well done indeed!

The Meh: The piece is a pencil sketch, which in itself is not bad, but combined with the unintended color artifacts and shading of what seems to be a cell-phone photo of line art, it looks unfinished. Artist, changing the lighting in your environment, the photo settings on your device, and/or using image editing software to clean up and enhance contrast of your art, will go a long way towards making your pencil sketches look clean and polished.

In light of the factors above, this piece is destined to go in both the highest and lowest tiers of my slate. Thank you for contributing!
#3 · 1
· · >>Rocket Lawn Chair
I don't normally comment on the art rounds, but this is outstanding. Excellent use of multi-point perspective, especially in the first image.
#4 ·
· · >>Rocket Lawn Chair
I love this, and the difficulty in getting the distorted images was well handled. It's not so apparent in the broken teacup, but the others show it well. The facial expressions in the large one are spot on, and I appreciate line art, as it's the one type I'll ever venture into, even though it takes me far too long and never turns out that great. But I digress...
#5 · 2
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>>Anon Y Mous
>>GroaningGreyAgony
>>Cold in Gardez
>>Pascoite

Hey, look at that! First time my art's won a medal! This wasn't a drawing I'd planned to make, but I couldn't get the idea out of my head, which says something to the impact the story had on me after reading it. Really glad Mayflies ended up doing so well overall.

As to the poor sketch quality of the final product, I'll have to see about scanning the sketches before processing, something I've done in the past when I can sneak them on to the work scanner when nobody's looking. Frankly, I'm not much of a photographer.

Thank you guys for all your feedback and encouragement. Also, special props to >>GroaningGreyAgony for his fantastic drawing. When I joined the write-off earlier this year I didn't expect to see art involved, nor did I expect it to add so much to the experience of writing. The vast creativity of this wonderful community never ceases to amaze me. There were plenty of good stories this round, and hopefully I'll be able to contribute some writing of my own next time.