One day I started counting the number of votes cast in all the challenges where they're visible and realized, wait, it's only that many people? If each artist pimps the challenges even once and draws their friends...but I don't think a lot of people do promote them? Which is fair - I just had someone befriend me on the pretext that they weren't interested in my icon challenge posts (and lately I'm kind of bored myself), and there doesn't seem to be the same interest in art as in fiction in this fandom.
I'm curious how many people vote in fic contests like SD memorial, averaging out the fact that there are more categories hence more entrants who all are presumably voting.
What the solution might be I have no idea.
But we've already talked about that before so, stopping now.
Yes, I do know what you mean I find I have that problem when making banners. When it comes to icons I usually have the opposite problem and I find my icons are generally on the minimalist side.
I have several posters/banners that I've not posted here yet, including some I did for my Tara claim of btvs20in20, but they are rather minimalist; some have no text. And I'm really surprised by that. (My poster for Gabrielle's Soft and Pink is cluttered but there's a purpose to that, to imply the chaos of Mr Gordos world.)
But posters are very new for me, icons I've been making longer and my style has shifted as I've had better tools to play with. When I just had photo bucket and started doing OWL challenges I was constantly seeking out icons that had lots of negative space. My older Normal Again icons look very different to what I'm doing right now. Once I switch to PSE I imagine there will be another shift as I get used to the tools. (toys, who am I kidding?)
I did have an 8th grade teacher who told me I was horrible at making color decisions.
And adult is telling a child that they suck at a thing which they have no experience with and couldn't possibly have achieved mastery yet. Methinks there's more than a little projection going on there. Hmmm... (you showed them all, didn't you? Your mastery of color is marvelous.)
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But of course. I try to make a habit of it. *lol*
One day I started counting the number of votes cast in all the challenges where they're visible and realized, wait, it's only that many people? If each artist pimps the challenges even once and draws their friends...but I don't think a lot of people do promote them? Which is fair - I just had someone befriend me on the pretext that they weren't interested in my icon challenge posts (and lately I'm kind of bored myself), and there doesn't seem to be the same interest in art as in fiction in this fandom.
I'm curious how many people vote in fic contests like SD memorial, averaging out the fact that there are more categories hence more entrants who all are presumably voting.
What the solution might be I have no idea.
But we've already talked about that before so, stopping now.
Yes, I do know what you mean I find I have that problem when making banners. When it comes to icons I usually have the opposite problem and I find my icons are generally on the minimalist side.
I have several posters/banners that I've not posted here yet, including some I did for my Tara claim of btvs20in20, but they are rather minimalist; some have no text. And I'm really surprised by that. (My poster for Gabrielle's Soft and Pink is cluttered but there's a purpose to that, to imply the chaos of Mr Gordos world.)
But posters are very new for me, icons I've been making longer and my style has shifted as I've had better tools to play with. When I just had photo bucket and started doing OWL challenges I was constantly seeking out icons that had lots of negative space. My older Normal Again icons look very different to what I'm doing right now. Once I switch to PSE I imagine there will be another shift as I get used to the tools. (toys, who am I kidding?)
I did have an 8th grade teacher who told me I was horrible at making color decisions.
And adult is telling a child that they suck at a thing which they have no experience with and couldn't possibly have achieved mastery yet. Methinks there's more than a little projection going on there. Hmmm... (you showed them all, didn't you? Your mastery of color is marvelous.)