26 February 2008 - 18:48Last Man Standing
I just ran across http://conceptart.org for the first time, a site that exists for illustrators and artists to collaborate and encourage each other- very cool but what really got me was a contest they host called Last Man Standing, which is a no-prize-but-honor contest where artists from the site submit their work and are whittled down in subsequent rounds by respected judges to a single artist judged to be the “Last Man Standing”.
Unfortunately the contest is pretty informal, so they haven’t organized a good website for the results of the contest to be seen. Instead, all they have is a series of forum posts that show all the results. There are mid the 3rd year of the contest right now. The 3rd year 1st round results are pretty easy to find, but for earlier years you have to dig a bit.
WARNING- the illustrations are often placed closer to the horror side of fantasy than the children’s section, but they are well drawn all the same.
Here are 5 examples pieces that caught my eye, taken from a round whose theme was “Underneath it All”:
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