I'm thinking about entering that Dreams for the Future contest that's been going on here on DeviantART for a while now, so that I could win a Wacom tablet, a $1000 Visa gift card, Photoshop and Painter goodies, and all that other good stuff.

But then again after looking at the most popular submissions so far...

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...I have a feeling I won't win anyway.

btw, I think that "Kimono" submission is BS ([link]). Sure the technicality and creativity is there, but it has absolutely no relation whatsoever to the theme of the contest. What a terrible execution of the theme...well as if there was any. She didn't even explain how on earth it relates to her dream for the future. This is kind of like BSing an assigment for Ms. Mabel's class and just saying whatever crap comes out of your mouth in order to make it looked like the assignment that you turned in--which was actually already finished two years ago for Ms. Treat's class but you decided to re-use it anyway for Ms. Mabel's--fits in with the current theme of the month and that you executed the meaning of the theme very well...and got an A on it regardless of the consistency of the artistic execution to the them. Ya catch my drift?

The judging is based not only on originality and technical skill, but also on the creative interpretation of the theme.