general I’m the worst winner ever

Posted October 1, 2007 • Comments Off on I’m the worst winner ever

I entered this coloring contest a couple weeks ago, because I remembered its previous iteration had so few entries it couldn’t be tough to win. I never heard anything back, so I figured I hadn’t won, big deal, whatever. Then I was on the site and realized the contest had actually ended on my birthday (okay, only a week ago, but it still feels like I’m ages late to the party).

And lo and behold I was one of the winners.

Here’s a link to the contest results, including the artist judge’s description of my entry as “clean, myterious, lovely colors.” [sic]

http://www.maczot.com/index.php?mod=v_sitenews

This is the picture I colored:

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And this is my entry (click to view the Flickr page):
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Every piece of that (well, almost) is a gradient mesh, which is a feature in Illustrator that I never get to use. So that’s nice.

You know what I won? Provided the MacZot people, whose customer service has been about 50/50 for me in the past, step up? An Officer and a Gentleman on DVD. And maybe (the phrasing is really unclear) a program called ArtText that might be fun to play with (and laugh at behind its back while Illustrator CS3 and I are hanging out).

Bizarre contest. But you can’t beat winning.