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[Season 3] YCM SOTW #17 - Freestyle


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Which piece do you think is the best?  

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  1. 1. Which piece do you think is the best?



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Theme: Freestyle

 

Theme excerpt:

 

Anything goes.

 

 

 

 

#1

 

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#2

 

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#3

 

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#4

 

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#5

 

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#6

 

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Rewards

 

Winning submission gets a spot in the hall of fame and a plaque showcasing the piece:
 

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1st place gets this weeks winners pack:

 

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(reward pack contents change weekly, each pack is unique.)

 

1st place also gets +10 points towards the Showcase Badge seen below, 2nd place gets +5.

(100 points are needed to receive the badge)

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Voting rules:

 

• Anyone can vote, you don't need any graphic design knowledge to do so, critique and analysis is appreciated but not a must, comments of any sort are favorable.

• If you've submitted a piece you may not vote for it, voting for others however is encouraged.

• Bribing or informing others of which submission is yours is not permitted and if found doing so, you will be banned from the graphic competitions section.

 

Voting ends 9/8 at 11:59PM EST. Whoever has the most votes at that point wins. 

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The quality here is high as hell, guys. Well done!

 

It's a toss-up between #2, #5 and #6 for me. #2 demonstrates stuff we've not really seen in SOTW before really well. #5 has some cool-ass pentooling. #6 has the best use of colour out of the whole batch (the CYMK and RGB contrasts, and the black-gold contrast go incredibly well together).

 

I think I'll go #5. All are great though.

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Holy sheet how am I supposed to pick from these?

 

Number 1 looks really cool, although it seems a bit washed out and grainy to the point of almost low-quality on the right side, but the feeling behind it is really cool. And that random little wave towards the bottom right corner seems really out of place and sort of breaks the feeling of the rest of the red.

 

Number 2 isn't something I expected to see in a SOTW, but at closer look, your eye can start to imagine tons of different shapes and figures within it, and it's like a really almost "alien" kind of piece, with no subjects and a complete abstract shape, and it sort of makes me think of like... Not sure how to describe it, but observing it, as if you're the only person in the world, and it's in a void (perhaps space) of sorts, an emptiness. Some edges of it look a little rough/sharp though.

 

Number 3, the colors are really quite vibrant, but the smeared line at the top versus sharp solid line at the bottom feels sort of jarring for me personally, and the huge olive-green dab at the left feels a little off-putting with the pink right next to it. That background stock for the right side looks really nice though, but the smudges/brushing seems a little random?

 

Number 4, I like that fabric sort of texture going on, as well as that paper+blood spatter thing, but the lighting seems a little weird (part of the fractal behind her, but it's the dark side). The colors are nice and it gives a sort of dangerous/alluring kind of feeling.

 

Number 5, holy funk that pentooling and the art look amazing, this is straight up gorgeous dope. I funking love this, and I'm sort of sure on who made this, but that's another story. But anyways, I love the color choices and the feeling behind it, and the sort of "simple but powerful" kind of feeling (not sure how to describe it?). The art and everything is reminiscent of vector style art, and there's none of the photo-like art styles found in the other tags, but even so, it gives a kind of warmth/elation sensation when looking at it.

 

Number 6, the color palette and the gold text look so incredibly gorgeous. And the focal with that sort of "3D without 3D glasses" look with that red/blue drop just feels omg amazing. I'm a sucker for Asian language/text in sigs, and I personally really like having those really tiny bars of text (which are usually near illegible or are very extremely small but still readable). IDK, I just really like the way the text was done, and the gold thing continues on from the text and behind and through the piece overall, which gives a really good sense of continuity/flow (not sure if that's an actual term for this, but IDK the term for it, but it's like, my feeling-term for it). I also super-love the paper texture-esque background and the inkblot like stuff, since it fits in really well with like that calligraphed character in gold.

 

Number 5 and 6 are so lovely, and Number 2 is a really new concept/kind of take (at least to me) that I haven't seen in a while, and it's really hard to pick. uuuu

This is really hard... :T

Will come back later to vote between the three, although I'm more of a fan of 5/6. Sorry to whoever made 2 (I think I can guess who made it), but I'm more used to 5/6 kind of thing, which I really adore.

Hopefully I don't forget to vote.

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Idk I don't feel up to an in-depth critique like I did for a couple other SOTWs but I really love 1, 5, and 6. The others are pretty dope too though, especially 2 for being 3D.

 

I think I'll pick 5 just because I haven't seen something like it before here. I mean, 2 is the same in that way but idk I just like 5 more.

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Nighterino wins with #5, thanks for the votes buds, 2nd place goes to Dae with #1

 

(award inc, waiting on our bud tormey)

 

Super dope turnout though, everyone brought in amazing pieces.

 

The random color topic item goes to Calm Captain, congrats, pm me for the prize man. 

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