Hello everyone, Naomi here! I hope you are all doing well!

Lets cut right to the results!

We had some beautiful entries! Take another fine look at them!:



Because we only had 4 entries, We had only 3 total judges this round. Another wonderful thank you to our judges! You were very fast and prompt, and that makes me happy!

First, for our Judged Category: Each submission score is out of 150! Here are the results!

First Place: ~Ja-Kitsu-Ryou With 138 Points! You won-
~fiddlestiks - full color/shaded full body w/simple bg
~Ja-Kitsu-Ryou - A colored sketch of the winner's creature of choice. Simple background. From yourself! XD

Second Place: ~Jedni With 125 Points! You won-
~fiddlestiks - white bg headshot
~Ja-Kitsu-Ryou - A sketch of the winner's creature of choice

Honorable Mentions:
=lizziecat1279 With 122 Points!
~acidshadow With 121 Points!


Wow! It was a very close one, but congrats to our winners!

Next up, is the Community Favorite! A user cannot win both The community Favorite and the Judged Category, so ~Ja-Kitsu-Ryou is out of the running! But it doesn't make their entry any less wonderful. Well done!

So with that said, the adjusted results are-

First Place: ~acidshadow  You won-
~fiddlestiks - full color/shaded simple bg headshot
~Ja-Kitsu-Ryou - A colored sketch of the winner's creature of choice. Simple background.

Second Place: =lizziecat1279 You Won-
~Ja-Kitsu-Ryou - A sketch of the winner's creature of choice

Honorable Mention:
~Jedni!



Wow! Overall wonderful entries! And I this couldn't have worked out any better, everyone got a chance and everyone is a winner. Congrats to everyone and their wonderful contributions in bringing more spectacular creatures to life! Thanks everyone!


Other News: bulletred:

As im sure you've all noticed, things have been going slowly here at the group. This mostly due to my university courses! I'm very sorry, and I'm considering looking for some mods to perhaps help out with some basic up keeping every few days, nothing major.

this would involve some adjustments to the hierarchy. Originally i'd move all contest participants to contributors, but If i do accept some helpers, I may bump that category down, or add a new one. I'm not totally sure. The first question is: What do you think of this? Is there anyone willing to lend a helping hand?

If no one does, that is ok, but keep in mind that it means there may be delays in answering comments, inquires, and etc. I know there's some misplaced deviations i have to fix, and a few deviations expired. If your deviation expired, please feel free to resubmit it! the exception is when the deviation has nothing to do with creatures and thus I purposely ignored it. [there's a few deviants that submit wrong things despite being talked too].


Also, I have been thinking that our next contest may be a map making contest for the daBestiary world! Keep an eye out for that, I may run a poll to get some opinions on that- or by all means share your opinions here too!

And finally, this was the first run of the new contest system. It'd be great to hear some critique! Are you satisfied with the results? Did you like or dislike how it worked? did it seem fair? Please let me know, so it can be adjusted to be more equal and friendly to everyone.


I do believe that's all for now! Thanks again everyone, please be sure to leave questions, comments and suggestions! I hope you all have a great week!