Pet Portrait contest, meh, Facebook.

[feng_shui_house]

I entered a pet portrait contest at Dick Blick (artist supply site), because I had a nice painting I'd done years ago of Thomas, but after I photographed the painting & did all the preliminary stuff, I discovered voting is by Facebook. Meh, I haven't got a Facebook & even if I did, I've seen how easily Facebook contests are rigged even if you don't have tons of friends who will vote for you (there are *communities* devoted to vote trading).

I entered anyway, after checking that I don't give up copyright/ownership in case I can figure out a way to use it on Spoonflower.

Anyway, voting starts on May 23, 2016.

You can see the entry here.
http://bit.ly/1Oip7dB

And

Comments

[vera_j]

Wonderful, wonderful portrait of "sunny" Thomas. I will vote!
And I went to see Tygr you made for me, the cushion is in my bedroom and my Tygr is always looking at me, thanks to you, he lives forever.
*HUGS*

[feng_shui_house]

Thank you! ;^) I was glad to be reminded of the painting- I'd forgot how much I liked the way it turned out. Tygr and Thomas are playing together in the happy catnip fields of Heaven. :^)

*huggles*

[sallymn]

I don't have facebook - Sis has one, purely to enter the odd competition, and has wone one or two, but not he popular vote ones.

[feng_shui_house]

The popular vote Facebook contests are so wide-open to cheating it's ridiculous. For a while I was watching the fabric design contests on a UK based site (I was mildly tempted to put designs there, as well as Spoonflower, but international tax complications made it seem not worthwhile).

Every month they'd have a contest, and nearly every month the SAME person won, with designs that were either very poor or direct copies of commercial designs. It became so obvious that no one else stood a chance that towards the end only one or two other people even tried. Last I heard, the company had stopped running the contests.