I want to have the judges give at least two paragraphs per piece of artwork. If they cannot do this, than they are not competent as judges. There are artistic princepals that every artist knows, and every judge ought to know these as well. There are more than enough aspects of each piece of artwork to make two complete, coherant paragraphs.

No artist wants to see "oh, this is nice. 6/10". I want to see why the smurf it's nice, or why it's not. If I see any of this loose-ended , I am going to be pissed.

And there haven't been enough technical critigues that have cited what is wrong with the picture. There is always at least one thing found to be wrong, but everyone knows that there are usually more than simply one thing wrong with each picture. When I say wrong, I mean not perfect.

DP tried this, but ultimately failed. I want to see a judge actually be brutal, but also make sense with what they write. The public is brutal, the real world is brutal. Artists are not supposed to have friends in the artistic world. It would shame me to have the review of a favoured judge.


So all you who seek to be judges, do not dissappoint, please. You owe us this right.

This competition is supposed to be fun, but the end product is always serious. The judging shouldn't be any less so.