Results of the fanart contest 2014 – Part 1
Our yearly Sandra and Woo and Gaia fanart contest was once again a huge success! We even received more submissions than last year, 68 pieces of artwork in total! Because of that I decided to present all drawings in three separate updates. On Sunday, 6 July 2014, I will post the submissions that reached the places 25 to 13. On Wednesday, 9 July 2014, I will present the top 12, including the six winners of prize money. I can already promise that the drawing of this year’s main winner is absolutely breath-taking! 🙂 I hope that none of the artists listed below is sad that he didn’t make it into the top 6. There’ll be another chance next year and I may also introduce two special awards for the funniest resp. the most innovative submission.
The following submissions are ordered alphabetically. The artists’ names are colored red if a link to their personal website is available. Show your support by visiting the artists’ websites and/or writing a comment in the comment section of this blog post!
 by Ádám Bedrossian I think the magical blue bird looks very nice, but the characters’ anatomy is a somewhat wonky so Ádám’s drawing narrowly missed the top 25. But it’s definitely a good drawing to start this list of submissions! [Artist’s comment: I imagined what a girl with Lilith’s power and Larisa’s spirit would do, so I decided to draw a huge firebird.] |
 by Ashley Rampertab |
 by Austin Stevens |
 by Ben Jeffries |
 by Bridget Howard |
 by Claire Fadness |
 by CommonERA |
 by Danielle Waugh [Artist’s comment: The title of my submission is “Wishing For a Friend”.] |
 by Elizabeth Salad |
 by Evan Fawcett It’s nice to see that Butterfly is also featured in a piece of fanart. |
 by Gabriella Poirier |
 by Hope Jeffries |
 by Hope Jeffries |
 by Jacquelyne Caldwell |
 by Jacquelyne Caldwell |
 by Jessy Henderhan |
 by Joshua |
 by Joshua Stamford While this artwork showing Woo as a human is drawn well, I think it’s also a bit arbitrary without additional context. |
 by Joxtray |
 by Julie Levy Lily meets Lili. I’m surprised that no one else has done this before. |
 by Kasmen Gamble |
 by Kayla Keener |
 by Krazywiz [Artist’s comment: Pit (Kid Icarus) has a pet raccoon, his name is Woo.] |
 by Kymrie Dinsmore |
 by Madison Evans While I find this joke to be quite funny, I almost excluded Madison’s submission from the fanart contest because I just don’t see the physical resemblance of his characters to Woo and, in particular, Lily. |
 by Meadow Mcgalliard |
 by Nina Bird This clever crossover was very close to make it into the top 25, but the quality of the artwork is just lacking a bit. Funnier facial expressions would still have helped a lot, I think. [Artist’s comment: I have to leave the country tomorrow and am out of time. I considered just sending it after the contest ended, but then I’d never finish it and the “plot” would be completely out-of-date.] |
 by Riley Hulick Sandra and Woo look really cute. [Artist’s comment: The first submission is a parody of a painting of Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson.] |
 by Riley Hulick Apart from these two, Riley also sent a third submission which made it into the top 25. [Artist’s comment: I threw the third submission together as an afterthought of the second. It’s an instance of the “Shrugpony” meme. I don’t at all expect it to win, but hope it makes you folks smile.] |
 by Robert Olson [Artist’s comment: I am submitting an artwork of Lilith & Eldor in a blood thirsted battle.] |
 by Samuel Oceans Samuel’s drawing of the Gaia cast was also close to reach the top 25. |
 by Sha |
 by Simon Ladd (Blitz) [Artist’s comment: I kind of feel bad that the idea […] won’t make any sense to anyone who didn’t watch Digimon as a kid.] |
 by Stephen Romney |
 by Vanessa Hawley I love the idea. [Artist’s comment: A painting of Larisa meditating on the sun.] |
 by Victoria Tubo [Artist’s comment: The title is “With Friends Like These”.] |
 by Wertyx Cabal Royale Flush’s Moderator |
 by Willie O’ Brien Willie was one of the winners of the fanart contest 2012 with this very funny drawing of Woo and Lily. |
 by Yana Mihailova |
 by Zoe Prescott |
 by Zsolt Gyurgyó I like the colors in Zsolt’s drawing. |
 by Zsolt Gyurgyó |
Last but not least, our reader Joxtray also sent the following animation which I uploaded to YouTube. I quite like the catchy classical tune, but I can’t really count an instrumental piece of music as Gaia related fanart, so I decided against placing it in my top 25:
I initially forgot to post the following drawing by Hannah Hawthorn when presenting the submissions:
by Hannah Hawthorn (website)
I’m a little sad.. Well.. There is always next year like you say..
Definitely next year! Defiantly !
I’m still a bit bummed there wasn’t time to do any of the other ideas I had. Empress of Northia propaganda posters are a thing I really want to make.
Gabriella Poirier wrote:
If it makes you feel any better, I loved yours!
Joxtray steals the show. That was really cool.
I have to admit I’m a little sad, too. But I had a ton of fun doing it and will try again next year! You can already see there are some awesome, creative people… I can’t wait to see the rest!
Aww.. XD
I suppose I kinda broke the rules a little bit. I’m happy I tried it anyway; it was a fun learning experience and I’m glad you liked it!
@ werwerwer:
Thanks Werwerwer! 🙂
Haha these are all amazing! I can’t wait to see the top ones, I agree that the anatomy is a little wonky in some of them but the ideas are very creative! Next year I’ll have to enter XD
The pixel art one is mine! Yay! 😀
Thank you, that’s sweet <3 @ Xezlec:
I like it!@ Jenthura:
Zsolt Gyurgyós is also really nice. Maybe if the left arm had been given a bit more attention.
I’m not really bummed, honestly. I didn’t even have the time to draw my original idea so I did something last minute just to enter for fun. It may be a bit controversial anyway lol. I don’t mind that it didn’t make top 25, but I am excited to see what did since some great entries didn’t make it to top 25! A lot of good submissions this year. Props to all of you for great entries. 🙂
@Joxtray: I really like yours as well. You’ve got talent.
I’ll have to post a submission next year… I keep meaning to do something then having a complete mind blank when it comes to an idea for it! Awesome work to the guys that did enter this year though, some really good pieces here.
My original idea involved Butterfly, but I eventually decided on something different that apparently made it to the top 25 🙂
Well, I’m Kinda sad. But I also expected that, I didn’t have enough time to draw my first Idea.
I’ll start my next year submission now.
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