Art Explosion Week 39 Winners! The theme was WHIMSICAL!
We have chosen the winners for week 39 of ART EXPLOSION, the theme this week was WHIMSICAL, there were lots of fantastic entries (and some problems, more on that later) this week that were very fun to look at :D @vachemorte and I have finished our deliberations are are proud to announce 7 prizes this week! There were 8 but someone was caught plagiarizing...
Plagiarism problem!
This is the second week that people have submitted stolen/unoriginal art so winner #1 has been removed. We have adjusted the winners/prizes already. We want to thank people in the community such as @overkillcoin and
@scytrix who have helped us spot these, apparently reverse image search isn't good enough to detect these things :(
We have reevaluated the rules, and will now leave a buffer zone of two days before sending prizes so if anyone sees anything stolen they will have time to call it out.
It is such a pleasure to be able to reward artists but I want to make sure it is going to the right person!
On to the winners:
@ianceaz showed amazing talent with WHIMSICAL MONKEY GOD KING, he wins 8 STEEM!
https://steemit.com/ocd-resteem/@ianceaz/an-entry-for-art-explosion-week-39-theme-whimsical-now-25-sbd-in-prizes
@akarantain comes in second with this adorable rabbit eared girl, she wins 4 STEEM!
https://steemit.com/spanish/@akarantain/art-explosion-week-39-theme-whimsical
@soysam is in third with this thermal piece and wins 3 STEEM:
https://steemit.com/artexplosion/@soysam/art-explosion-week-39-theme-whimsical-thermal-boy
We have 4 honorable mentions this week who win 2 STEEM each:
@creativesoul:
https://steemit.com/artexplosion/@creativesoul/artexplosion-week-39-whimsical-theme-dream-garden-doodle
@permanayogi:
https://steemit.com/artexplosion/@permanayogi/a-sweet-entry-for-art-explosion-week-39-theme-whimsical
@wgustaman:
https://steemit.com/artexplosion/@wgustaman/entry-for-art-explosion-week-39-theme-whimsical
@norwegiansteem:
https://steemit.com/artexplotion/@norwegiansteem/whimsical-art-0453990b4e3b4
We congratulate all the winners and want to thank each and every one of you for entering! The creative minds of Steemit continue to impress us! The next theme will be going up later today and payments will be sent tomorrow!
I doubt the top 1 is the real creator of the piece she present, 'coz I saw the piece she present before, exactly with the same step process she post I hope we can do something about it.
Thank you I'll look into this I reverse image search everything now and have asked for proof already :/ this is why I'm waiting to send out payments, ahhhhhh!
Hello! I am @sharliep. I ask first apology to the jury of the contest of Art Explosion. I admit that take the davidunthank image. I, for a while i wanted to redo their drawings, but did not have the time or materials. In addition, urgently needed the money for medical treatment. I, I am not excusing, give the reasons for why I did it.
The truth, I felt very guilty, but even so I decided to keep quiet. In other contests have plagiarized my work… so I said why can't I do the same? And I felt very bad. Certainly, in this occasion take advantage of something that I not did. But, in my previous participations, if it has been my job.As you can see, in the contest theme: Awakening, I was one of the winners.
This gives me a great lesson, of what was ignoring my irresponsibility.
I apologize to the jurors and i will ask forgiveness directly to davidunthank. . I do not do it again. I only ask that you give me another chance and I will demonstrate my real work.
Thank you for your honesty and I am sorry to hear about your medical problems. As I said in my post this isn't the first time this happened and it's unfortunate because it causes us a lot of extra work trying to check the authenticity of each artwork.
I think you will find the steemit community is quite generous and if you had made a post about needing money you may have received some support, it's unfortunate you thought plagiarism would go unnoticed. I am looking at ways to ask each artist to verify now I will have to think about this a bit.
@juliakponsford Thank you for your understanding and the council. Now I am aware of all the consequences that brings the plagiarism. Among these, I have to work again in my credibility of my work. Steemianos Please, read this, never forget that the easy way, is never the right thing to do. What I am learning of shameful manner. :(
yeah, good catch. If you scroll down on their ig you can see the in progress shots too.
It's almost like there should be a special fund for artists who's work won a contest without them knowing :-)
Yeah I think we need to upfrade the rules for art contest like an actual picture with the artwork or even a signature or the steemit name because its really hard to curate the authencity this arts
Thank you so much for pointing it out. It help us to reward original artists instead of plagiarisms and might also discouraged future attempts. As Julia said we reverse image search almost everything this week and I wish we wouldn't need to do that...
Ommmyyyyyy! Thank you so so much for choosing me! @juliakponsford! What a contest! After all the struggles of making this piece, it was all worth it! Again thank you so much! @juliakponsford and guest judge @vachemorte! I dearly look forward for more contests, and I promise to do better! Godbless!
Just in case you didn't see above the payment will be going out in two days (see details in the post), cheers and thank you all who honestly submitted work :D
Wow! I am very very happy!! Thank you Julia y Vachemorte !! Congtrats to all!
Congratulations chica X ❤
It was great for the theme, very cute, thanks for joining!
Ohhh I was so looking forward to participate and had my drawing but then I missed to post. Oh my!
We have the contest every 2 week now @yidneth it's never too late to participate :)
Excellent works, my favorite was this:
@wgustaman congrats!!
PD: It is a shame that some "artists" steal the work of other true artists and want to justify what they do :(
thanks so much
Merecido lugar amiga @akarantain, felicitaciones
Wow!! Muchisimas Gracias!!
Wow looks like Wukong of League of legends, looks brutal that work of art! I love, is an excellent job, that great talent has to draw I would like to see more pictures like that
Hello @juliakponsford, thank you for sharing this creative work! We just stopped by to say that you've been upvoted by the @creativecrypto magazine. The Creative Crypto is all about art on the blockchain and learning from creatives like you. Looking forward to crossing paths again soon. Steem on!
Thank you, I appreciate it :)
Congrats to all winners!