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)
WOOO HOOO.
Remembering last year, I didn’t think you would be able to get the results up so fast. I am getting shivers looking at all these drawings and knowing the most breathtaking is yet to come.
A round of applause to myself and all the other fans who took up the pen. HUZZAH!
P.S.
68 submissions? Sounds like you are getting more popular. Congrats.
I really like Samuel Oceans’ entry. Wow! if that didn’t make the top 25, the ones that did must really be exceptional!
@ PMark:
Thanks PMark! I’m also looking forward to seeing the top entries!
I like Austin Stevens’s, Gabriella Poirier’s, Riley Kulick’s, Zoe prescott’s, Sha’s and Blitz’s.. rest is bwarf
I look forward for the “better” one..