I'd like to help so I made these standard comments for anyone to cut and paste to drawings because they're all pretty much the same comments all the time anyway. "Oh wow, this is great!" "I love how this is turning out!" "Oooh, I just loooove the colors you used!" "Another great drawing!" "OMG...this is unbelievable!" "Nice one!" So there you have it. Oh wait .... one more "Thank you all so very much! I could have done better but I got tired."

As it stands now every contest will run a full month, to let people take their time to plan out and finish their entries. This way there's not as much pressure placed on the artist to rush. However if a piece is not finished by that time it will not be judged. Hopefully this will give people more incentive to participate. So now on to the next contest. Contest Week 80: Scene from a book/novel This months contest is Scene from a book. It can be from any book/novel, any ...

I was going to have another thread to vote on the next contest theme, but here's what I'm thinking- we've been voting on what contests we want next for a while now and I'm wondering if this is the method everyone wants to stick with. Any other ideas? Any suggestions for improvement? Maybe we should change the length or frequency of the contests? I'm asking because some of the contests lately have had kind of low participation, despite being whatever people voted that they wanted the contest t...