I... don't really know what this is. Nor how you did it. But it evokes something and I like it. The color of the background, being off-white, really complements the black and red of the tears, and the black shadow-esque border looks really nice. That's all I got, though. I'm sorry I can't really give you much more feedback on it, mate.


(I figured out why I'm having a hard time ranking the art, though. It's basically trying to choose between technical, creative, and emotional)

>>MLPmatthewl419
That's a really good way of putting why you're having a hard time ranking the art, by the way. I think that summarizes the entrants pretty well all by itself.

I saw this at first as bloody clawmarks. Evokes latent frustration that the artist in the story might have been feeling. A solid piece that is going in my upper tier.

[This was written before the reveal to avoid indirect revelation of which artwork was mine, and is being posted now unchanged.]

I have some trouble “getting” this one. They read as bloody clawmarks to me at first… they don't match any of Dash's paintings exactly, and the background doesn't really look canvas-y… it definitely seems like an offbeat interpretation of the story rather than a straightforward one.

I saw the possibility of “evocation of frustration” like >>GroaningGreyAgony pointed out, and I kind of like that interpretation, but something about the presentation isn't quite visceral enough for me to have it stick as “yeah, I'm pretty sure that's how I'm going to see this”. So ultimately I dunno.

Whatever the case, thanks for submitting! I'll be very curious to see what medium and process and idea you used for this if you do a retrospective, artist.