Okay... so as you can tell from some of my deviations i've competed in several contest throughout the past few months.

OKAY. before i start this rant i want to make it PERFECTLY CLEAR that i DO NOT HAVE A PROBLEM WITH LOSING. I AM NOT A SORE LOSER AND I CAN TAKE LOSING JUST AS GRACEFULLY AS THE NEXT ARTIST!!!

okay so here's my issue. i have an issue with clubs, individual artist or anybody really making up rules for a contest then not caring when people break or violate those rules! now this does not mean that i don't like the artist or the partisipent who broke the rules. i just don't like the unfair advantage. example(and i'm not going to name names or anything): contest rules are
1. deadline is in a month
2. no using patterns or textures unless handesigned by yourself
3. no changing of the lineart given to you to color

now as a contestant i'm figuring that the rules of the contest r at least a little important. so i get my entry done and submitted in a month(in my case the very last day that it is due). i don't use any patterns, and all i do is color the lineart like the contest RULES say to do.

so i happily submit my entry and take awe in the other entries submitted. now like i said i don't mind losing.... hell.. i never claimed to be the best and don't think i should be treated like the best

so u do all this waiting for the juding of the contest and finally when the winners r announced you see that two not 1 but two of the top 3 entrys r late entries. not just minutes late, not hours late, hell not even days late but weeks. that's right Weeks late. that's just bullshit to me. i mean sure everyone dosen't hop on a contest as soon as it's released and there r even times when you find out about a contest on the due date or a day before. it happens. but i find it utterly and totally unfair these artist had WEEKS to work on and improve there art that i didn't. cause hell everyone knows that time is the real factor on being content with a piece versus knowing you've done your very best on it.

so on top of the late thing. the 3rd place artist has in fact gone and changed up the piece given to us to color. Once again.. what's the fuckin point of having rules if people r going to utterly break them. and the thing is ... i don't blame the artist for changing the art. sometimes i can't work with lineart that i just don't like or don't like something about. but i do blame the contest holder for allowing these blatant breaking of the rules cause if it was never that important it should have never been a RULE in the first place.

okay... end rant. i didn't want this to get really wordy but i just had to get this out. and sence i decided not to express myself at the contest(for fear that i would just be considered a SORE LOSER) i let it loose here. Thank you to any and everybody who has stuck around to read this rant. and although i hate things like this i probally will end up doing more contest. i just wish that things like this could be avoided so that i wouldn't feel like i was cheated out of a possible ranking