At first it started off as a quite interesting contest with enticing prizes, over-used, though still good theme, and now it's been turned into a huge-ass farce... By DA members themselves :]

Congratulations, people, for Bringing your Whining to Life.

What was the point of the entire contest? I honestly and it seems also naively thought that the whole point was to literally bring your vision to life, to paint whatever you see under the phrase "Good vs Evil", although it has been now turned into nothing more than a pitiful war. Sweet.

1. I don't agree what the picked pictures! Some others should have been picked!

That's your opinion. Theirs was different. Oh, yes, many people may also happen to agree with you, but don't count on it much - the fact is, we all have the right to have an opinion and even voice it out, but what's the point of it now when they've already been picked? Why not simply congratulate them for being picked instead of offending various artists by basically pointing out they're not good enough for you? You know what? Get over it.

2. That's so not fair, half of them aren't even original! Wasn't that the whole point?! Most of them are the lame ol' "angels vs demons"!

Yeah, I know. Yeah, we all somehow noticed. But, you see... So what? Yeah, I don't agree with many pictures either, I don't like how many pictures that are basically very similar were picked, but it wasn't only the choice of the judges but also the artists themselves. If that's how they see it, fine, if that's how they want it, fine. It's their choice. And also, if the picture is really good... Then? What's your problem, really? Envy? Jealousy? Unfortunately, it can't be helped. Although very similar indeed, the pictures are actually good - colors, shading, rendering... Everything's fine. Perhaps not totally perfect but nothing's perfect these days. So, again, get over it.

3. Too much digital art blah blah blah not enough traditional blah blah blah

Again with the same ol' shit. Yeah, Photoshop and all those other cool program have many great buttons, indeed. I can download many cool brushes, patterns, styles and so on, I can surround myself with tons and tons of various kinds of buttons with amazing functions that will blow my brains out from pure amazement. But. That. Will. Not. Give. Me. Skill. No amount of programs will give any digital artist an immediate skill, talent or patience or feeling - all those ingredients required. And you, my dear friend, are a goddamn primitive. The point of art is to express yourself, to show something. Emotions. Feelings. Visions. Your thoughts and opinions, anything to evoke fear, love, hatred, or any other kind of emotion in the viewer. The point isn't to use the tools, to use the brush or pencil and label yourself as an artist. And by differentiating between traditional and digital art you're degrading art to nothing more than a set of few brushes and a canvas. To non-animate objects that are honestly just the few basic tools... Actually, in order to create art, you mostly need talent, inspiration, a vision, emotions and by your skill you can manage to put that down - who cares if it was drawn on canvas or in Photoshop? Who does? If it's beautiful, then it's beautiful, end of topic. And yeah, seriously thank you people for making us, digital artists, come off as idiots who only push buttons, smile, stand there and look pretty while the program does all the job for them. Really, thank you.

4. It's for digital artists anyway since why would a traditional artist need a tablet, anyway? And why would a digital artist need a tablet when they already have one?

How do you know every digital artist has one? Not a lot of them do own a tablet. And who are you to say that? I thought the point was to, I dunno... Draw something so amazing that wow, you win and feel great that you actually managed to do it? And then you get those prizes and that makes you feel even better 'coz hey? I mean... What kind of an argument is that? That's like... looking for as many reasons as you can just so you could point your crooked little finger at your screen and go like "you suck". How mature. The freaking point is to express something - the prizes are just a gateway to draw in more and more artists who'd be interested in a few of them. And because Wacom needs advertisement and DA is good enough for that. Simple 'nuff.

5. Whine whine whine bitch whine.

You are a very mature individual, aren't you? Great job for making the humanity come off as a group of primitive selfish idiots. Nice job. Go get a cookie. :]

And for the record, I didn't join the contest as I had too many exams and not enough time that I'd need to spend on drawing anything. A pity, but enough to actually annoy me. :]