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FR Skin Contests and You (and Me)

Let’s talk about festival skin contests.

This post will be 1) about win conditions 2) my breakdown on my wins/losses. Before we start, please know a lot of this is guesswork, and based on my own perspective. Still, I hope this will be useful for some people ^^

***August/888 and I (but August mostly as it’s his idea) will be hosting an event encouraging new artists to join festival contests on 8/8. It will have a lot of tips and references to help get you started, so please keep an eye out!

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When it comes to skin contests, people generally enter for one of three reasons: 1) for fun 2) because it’s seen as a milestone of skinmaking, or 3) out of a desire to push yourself to the limit knowing you’ll regret it like a Sunday hangover– but I hope that’s just me.

In my two years of participating in skin contests, I’ve seen a lot of artists join with a lot of excitement, only to give up or drop out because they aren’t winning. Some blame it on skill, others blame it on the staff, and some blame it on fellow competitors.

Here’s what I will say: like any contest, winning the festival skin contest is based on a combination of luck, knowledge, and skill. Just like any contest, there is a strategy to it and there are win conditions that you have to fulfill if you want a chance at winning. Some artists find these win conditions quickly and are able to adapt and cultivate the skill needed to pull off a win. Some are aware of these win conditions but do not yet have the skill to pull off a win. And some aren’t aware at all. A loss is usually (but not always) a result of not fulfilling those win conditions, or not fulfilling them as much as another artist.

So, let’s talk about these win conditions.

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#fr skins #fr meta #quality of festival skins getting better all the time #I do believe that I played a bit of breed meta back in the day #but I doubt my 2 wins would have made it in today's competitions

pocketss

Rin at 4am having a good ol’ scream

#flight rising #art #seeing pockets art being shared around and thinking of these two

dailymirrors

that’s it pack it up boys this update is good

#flight rising #fr #dragon share #mirror dragons #im crying this is too cute

webvein

Possible future multi-gaze adoptables with updated poses.

Red spots designate where the eyes will be

If anyone is interested in these, reblog with multigaze dragon img and dragon ID for a chance to be the test for one or both new adoptables!

The animation and quality will be like this but I think these new poses are more dynamic and better for showcasing certain genes.

#art #adoptables #EYES #cool sketches #top reads a bit better #I think

dyzomnouvs

Wanted to test out some brushes, ft. Hikaye’s dragon!

#art #nice speedpaint technique

semistsuga

Spruce lionfish / peach toxin / bronze gembond - gembond continues to be, by all accounts, a gene made Exclusively Best For Skydancers.

#dragons #lionfish :o

sentimental-bottlesnake

Originally I bought the green one for Tassa at left, replacing her matching accent with her mate. I was never… In love with her in it if you get what I mean.

Then today @miirshroom-art was selling a BLUE version and I tried it on Aya and I DO love it on her way more than her old fest accent. And they were super nice about it and let me trade in the green one I didn’t want anymore for the new blue one and sjdhsbeisjsbs

Aya is so pretty now omg it goes so perfectly with her ringlets and the white around the eye goes with her shawl. Very happy :D

#my accents #lookit the bird dragons!#good!

rait-sinorian

This is my diploma work(part of them) Somedragon below to me, some - my friends. If you want art like this send me mail (for real money only, sorry it’s hard work for me)

#art #oooo watercolour #nice compositions

golden-lionsnake

Lightning Gothic

-You are not working to expand civilization. You’re fighting against the encroaching wilderness. If you falter, it will consume you. Your father knows this, and he is relentless.

-You hear static throughout the day. Throughout the night. Even when you leave the territory, you hear it. It’s in you. It’s with you.

-There’s something that prickles your skin around you. You tell yourself it’s just the static. It’s not.

-Sometimes the empty desert around the lightning farm whispers your name.

-In your nightmares you feel the rushing waters pull you down.

-You’ve built all these golems to do your bidding. Except that one. It watches you intently.

-In the scrub you’re told to drink from the cacti until you can find somewhere safe to rest, but what the juice from their arms shows you isn’t worth the hydration. You can’t erase those visions.

-The spire and farm are warm. The canyon isn’t. You’ve forgotten what it meant to be cold until now.

-Technology can only save so much of you. How long has it been since you’ve felt your own pulse? Your clanmates watch you with caution. They know.

-Fear the rain. When it comes, it comes swiftly. You’ve already lost so much.

#headcanon accepted #lighting flight

nimrook-fr

@khadjin-fr A CACTUS TOWN. I wanted to draw so many different forms of cactus but I settled on this cause it’s sort of what’s in the site art. Also holy background batman I drew scenery. God perspective is hard.

Also featuring Ziggy my electrician boyo