Coloring: Round 4 (August) - Results

[Mousey]

So many beautiful pictures this month! I guess because it's Minako, ohoho.

It has definitely been the hardest month to judge. (I even had to enlist help this time. GASP!)

1ST PLACE: Fujiko
Prize: Three choice cards, four random cards, one choice special card, two random month cards.

2ND PLACE: Smam
Prize: Two choice cards, three random cards, one random Special card, two random month cards.

3RD PLACE: Cerri
Prize: One choice card, two random cards, two random Month cards.

HON MENT: Akiko, Ceri, Lola, Starr, Tmf
Prize: One choice card, one random card, one random Month card.

OTHER ENTRANTS: Hikaru, Lauchis, Megumi, Mia, Minty, Miriamele, Nyla
Prize: One choice card, one random card, one random coupon.

I'll be emailing you with your prizes shortly. The new image will be up shortly, as well! <3

[Fujiko]

Are you kidding? I can't believe I won first place again. ^^;;
Congrats to everyone else as well!! I thought all the entries were really really good!!

Mousey: there are no links to the entries from the names.

[Mousey]

Yeahhh. XDD I got lazy this time, and for that I apologize, but considering most of them are up in the forum this month (save Starr's entry, which was the only hand-colored one! she was right lulz) ...... yeah. <3

Congrats though! =D

[Smam]

eeee I bet it was hard to choose. XD So many beautiful entries. tmf's was my personal favorite though. :x I love the shading on the thighs. *_* *envy* XDDD God that makes me sound so perverted. LMFAO.

[Starr]

What can I say except hand-colored entries almost pwn. (And I imagine it's a lot easier to color by hand than in photoshop)

[tmfkasueshm]

Yay, grats to all the winners I agree, there were lots of nice entries~ I'm sure Starr's was nice too even though I didn't get to see it

Thanks Smam <3 I usually use lots of layers when I color, I think this one came out to over 20 XD But for the legs, I just had one layer with the generic skin color, then added new layers which were the darker, more neutral tones, then merged the shaded layers together as I went smudge happy to blur them. Then after the shading was done, I added some dodge tool to the main skin color, to bring out the extra highlight of the thigh <3 I'm not sure if my process is very time efficient and if there are easier ways, but, that's what I do ^^;

And don't worry about sounding perverted when talking about arts, at least around me I've taking a life drawing class XD

[Mousey]

XDD

All of the entries were so different thing time in their own right that it was genuinely hard to pick "winners" and whatnot. Especially placements. XDD I basically flipped through the ones that I had marked several times and went with the one that overall appealed to my senses best.

I wish there was a more "efficient" way of judging the contest but even with polls and whatnot, it all comes down to personal tastes. <3