Hello challengers อีโมติคอน smile This is just a quick message to the new members before we launch the new theme. Please remember that passion for a common cause and selflessness are the glues that holds a good community together, but another essential glue is having deep respect for others.
The “Character Design Challenge” group is a positive, easy going online community. Behaving in a proper and polite way is an essential requirement if you want to be part of it.
To mantain this peaceful atmosphere we ask you the courtesy of being extra careful when you’re commenting on the designs of other artists. Sharing a design with a large group of people to be then judged by others takes a lot of courage, especially for the young ones. The last thing that artists need is a rude and insensitive comment that appears out of the blue in the comment section of their work.
All the above especially applies for the monthly posts about the winners. In the last 2 challenges we have been dealing with a couple of extemely rude people who insulted the winners and obviously us (they usually leave a 1 star review on our page once that we ban them: https://goo.gl/P63UWu ). It's ok, a few rude people from time to time don't bother us too much, but PLEASE, we can't stess enough: the #CDChallenge real value is to learn together, make new art friends and contribute with your unique touch to a collective and fun character design project. Winning the challenge is just an excuse to keep all the members motivated with their work. We remind you that we randomly choose the winning designs from a selection of 40/50 artworks (usually a 10% of the entries) The selection DO represent what are, in our opinion, the finest entries, (in fact, if you check all the winners from the present and past challenges you can easily see that all of them are great designs that really stands out for their quality). We select more than 4 because with over 1000 entries per challenge there's a lot of incredible designs to choose from. Obviously it would be silly to think that ONLY these 4 designs represent the best of the challenge: every artists has their own style and everyone has their own preference, if you have joined this group and shared your work you have already won, it's really like that and we wish that all of you will enjoy this experience.
It's just a game, have fun