Thanks again for everyone who entered! This contest was a blast! So we are happy to announce winners.
Before I continue we are trying something different then usual, at the end we are going to have critiques for everyone that participated, these are compiled from our judging session. If you like this please tell us!
Now let's get to the results!
In first place we have: winterinheaven
In second we have KatrinHollister
In third we have TimeaKS
In fourth we have: ScatteredAsh
In fifth we have: Fandomacc
And finally our public vote spot with seven votes: TimeaKS
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Judge critiques:
ScatteredAsh ; We liked your concept and it matched the prompt really well. But there are some things, you lacked proper lighting (nothing was glowing from that energy in the vase) and you could have cut out the vase more cleanly. General consensus was it lacked any source of "Wow" a cover needs.
Sapphire_2721 ; The concept is really creative and we liked your ideas presented, but you could use a more sense of clarity and cleanliness in your graphic. You also need to improve your blending, this can be accomplished with better lighting and colors. We also like your font choices but the placing of the author could have been better.
winterinheaven ; One of the most pleasing to look at, it incorporates the story elements nicely. The blending of the model is where it lost a point or two. This was because of the lack of lighting on the model from the light source in the back.
EllaraNithercott ; We liked some of the ideas and it had nice relation to the story, but around the model it got really messy, with all of the effects you places and made it frustrating to look at. The colors were also way to saturated and glow behind the model is way to bright to be believable. While the colors were overly saturated we commend you on using a not commonly used color (orange). Also try not to cover up important aspects with text, like you did with the fox.
KatrinHollister ; We love the colors and it shows a good sense of composition and flow, but some of the aspects seemed a little bit off, like the random screaming bunny or how the blending of the dress to the cloud like effects on the bottom didn't work that well. So work on your blending efforts!
TimeaKS ; We liked the non manipulation take on the prompt and felt you had done it really well with a large understanding of typography. Some notes though; the text completely over powers the dragon and its extremely dark. We also think you could have related to the story more, you said you wanted to relate to the powers of the seven brothers but there is nothing here other then the title to relate to 7 at all and the relation is weak.
Fandomacc ; We think your placement of stocks would have made for a really creative concept and your ideas were great but it fell short on the blending side of things, so work on making stocks fit together more. We also recommend creating more space so it feels less crowded. The text is also a little hard to read.