Ok, so for Bomonga, I tried to do a pose similar to Entry 11. I don’t think there were problems in that entry, so I went with a similar concept for mine. About as much of mine is similarly positioned and visible. Additionally, whereas you can only see two limbs in entry 11, you can actually make out 3 in mine – it’s just harder because of 1) the placement of Norik’s right arm and 2) the silhouette for Bomonga’s leg color, which blends in with the rocks. Regarding Norik, there wasn’t a lot I could do because he already needs to pop off the page so that I could fit the rest of the toa. And to center Bomonga against Norik means that some part of his body is going to cover Bomonga (ie. his legs). Additionally, I didn’t have enough time to redo Norik from scratch like I did for Bomonga, so not a lot of changes could be made without totally redoing my entry.
Also, for what it’s worth, I did position Bomonga in a way that four of his limbs were initially visible:
Again, Norik is just making it hard to see the legs. I did however only draw them as silhouettes since it had been communicated to me that all I needed was the general shape to be ok.
Also, if you look at other entries, like in Entry 1, a similar amount of Bomonga is obscured. It is simply the nature of six figures being fit together in a team drawing that makes composition tricky.
Please understand that given the revisions I was asked to make and the original composition my entry had, this was going to be a hard change for me to do without totally redrawing my entry from scratch. There was a lot of empty space I had to deal with by removing Roodaka and Titan Bomonga. I worked with what I had available in the limited time I had left, and I tried to keep it tasteful while allowing the rest of my art to breathe. I did not have two weeks like other people, I had only eight days (less considering I had only seen the notice later).
Regarding Gaaki, I didn’t make too many changes because they said she was fine. I didn’t think about the chestpiece potentially being a problem because I was so focused on her pose and composition of the team as a whole. I acknowledge your concern, but if that is truly going to be an issue, then I wish it had been brought up sooner.
And with Kualus, regarding his mask, to be fair your model had half of it covered. I only tried to make the mask look more like an actual Noble mask by drawing inspiration from the turaga masks. If the mods had asked for me to change it, I would have. Also, I can make the scarf darker, but this was really an honest attempt at illustrating beige. I referenced this and slightly adjusted the color to match the darker setting:
Lastly – I think you should know that I find it incredibly frustrating when an honest effort at following the feedback given to me is met with “This should be disqualified.” I worked on this from the moment I saw the messages to me – over parts of Thanksgiving – literally to the last minute on this. This entry is an honest attempt at balancing the rules with what I wanted to illustrate. I think it is incredibly disrespectful for you to tag a mod and ask for me to be DQ’d when I am really trying to put something out here to the best of my ability.
This is clearly not a Noodlryx-type of illustration, and I don’t get why you think I’d go through such efforts to make an illustration like this in bad faith. Obviously I’m not too happy about the results with Bomonga and how that contest was handled, but instead of complaining about it I am trying to act on it by creating something not only amenable for me but also within the rules. If people don’t like it, then they just can choose not to vote for it. But this whole “this entry needs to be DQ’d” feels like harassment and I am very, very distraught by how much anxiety this forum has given me over the course of this contest. I don’t know if voicing this is going to get me banned, but I need it to be known by how much I am affected by these responses.
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Saw your edit and I appreciate it, so thank you for letting me know. I’ve said it before in an earlier post here, and I agree that it’s important for standards to be consistent for everyone. I hope you’re not offended by anything I said above, but still these have still been my feelings on my experiences here.