Welcome to the new competition again.
I went from being a kid to something because i still don’t understand and also things i learned from previous competitions.
First of all, if a member brings this art from a third party with some money and participates in this competition again, then why it will be accepted. If this is the rule then the admin you can get the design from all these sites fiver, upwork etc then this competition will not be needed.
Second from the previous contest i saw that many members used software to do this design but why would it be considered acceptable, Because drawing with your own hands and creating using software will be the same? Never same. If there use software for this competition then how can i do better than them with hand design?.
However, for me this is not possible as more people will use software for this competition and some people will design with money from other people like third party.
Man you have no idea how hard to make a digital artwork using software like photoshop haha, Digital and Traditional artwork are valued the same, cause the expertise of using those two medium of art takes a lot of time to master. I am both traditional and Digital artist, and yes! I get more money using traditional cause it's my expertise but that doesn't mean that digital is less valuable than traditional artwork. Just go to deviant art and you will see some artist and clients there are willing to pay a thousand of bucks for a digital artwork.
With regards to people who are going to pay artist to join here, trust me that is not going to work LOL, Coz you are going to pay more than a thousand bucks to generate an artwork that may win this competition or maybe not

Last competition I lost also, and that's a shame cause I win the 10th anniv. competition but I can't win a competition like that. That's because of my 1 day preparation and 1 day artwork. But this competition, I will give my all and will make sure that I will get the 1st prize!

So cheer up mate! don't underestimate any kind of medium, it's not the medium of art but the artist expertise to make a wonderful art and express it
