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More epilepsy inducing art from Owen.
(i was drawing a blank for this topic)
C: This is awkward... Oh well. Also, links did not work.
Zoph: *hooks up judging-while-sleeping equipment* (Okay, actually I just judged while Cen was hopefully asleep and emailed my set of comments on the entries... Hence lack of usual chatter.)
Gogo Cenere setting up judging something something! (Really need sleep here... It's like half past midnight AG time, which is like 6 am here...)
Champions Exhibit: Bronze
Zoph: "*pffffffffahahaha* " or something similar was my original reaction to that~ It's brill~
Would possibly have looked better if you'd let the upper opening in the M (see that V-shaped bowl in it?) be the mouth, it does have sort of a good expression for it.~
The nose looks out of place, but the perspective more than makes up for that. Good use of edges and shortening. The right side of the background looks odd, though, would maybe have been better to crop the image and have the edge before that mighty vertical line.
C: Agreeing on the background part. It might be because Feb is standing in the doorway, but it would have been more clear with a different wall colour inside if that was the case. Also, yes, the face is bit confusing to look at, but that might be my state more than the drawing.
First place:
KLaus
Zoph: Klaus, you darn inappropriator~ You do that so well~
It's a decent pun, it's a funny comic, and you obviously made an effort with it. Nice Cyanide&Happiness style too~
You might wanna make your future frames a liiiiiiittle less sloppy, though. It's like some bear painted it over the frames with it's tongue. You wouldn't know anything about licking your art, would you?
C: I want that brush. Besides that, yes, it is a good interpretation and rather creative.
Second:
Goumas
Zoph: Oh the pun! Pretty neat drawing, used to do those in art classes, I always found them sort of tedious to do. So good job actually drawing one voluntarily, and nice job on the folds. :3
C: I find this rather interesting, not because of the pun, but mainly because he was the one who took the days from February. It is prestigious to have a month named after you, but even more so, if the month has 31 days. So he took them from February. Thus making both July and August have 31 days.
Also, creative way, and only showing one month as well (Theme was singularis).
Third:
KR, who did show more than one month, but I cannot really discuss the judging with the other judge so yeah. I am not sure it would mean anything either way.
Zoph: O.o... Oh dear.
Btw, you could have fitted that in if you had made your canvas bigger and moved the drawing down. Or basically just made the canvas bigger.
If it was not for the crime-theme already taken, I would choose Mafia as the next theme. January has a nice smirk, and the expressions are rather good for the most part.
At least months does not seem to bleed.
As for the rest:
Crimson
Zoph: This image makes my browser laaag... And again, season related, though a specific month in each season. It's pretty well done, though, but you might want to consider getting another grass brush than just the default PS one?
Btw a calendar with your characters would be totally win~
C: What she said. Besides it being a more.. silent piece of art this time, I would say it actually lacks some of the dynamics you usually put into play when it comes to drawing. It might because of the aforementioned silence, but the poses look stiff. A bit of light practice might do well, but then again, who am I to talk.
Marton
Zoph: The force of copy/paste~ Also more year/season based than month related, and a bit ... simple looking. Cute snowman thing, though~ (Are those called snowman/snowmen in English?)
C: I think so. If it had been for Denmark, it would have been "Storm", "Storm", "Snow", "Storm", "Rain", "Rain with a bit of sun", "Sun", "Sun", "Rain with a bit of sun", "Storm", "Storm", "Storm".
A bit of lazy work, though, and not so much month as months.
Guitar 
C: I cannot seem to find the judging from Zophia with this one... This looks rather good, actually. It reminds me a bit of Calvin and Hobbes, with the crazy looking snowmen, usually either grotesque or actually alive (which was the part that reminded me, besides being really random). That and a song, but better stop now.
The melting effect is good.
KingNick
Zoph: A classic way of portraying the seasons. Seasons. Seems a bit rushed and uninspired, but please continue participating in the contest! Maybe the next theme will inspire you more.
C: Snow. I like the way many call their work for "Month" when in fact there are either more than one or it is portraying seasons... Sadly theme entries are there to stop us from using themes that is related (Poltergeist round now closed down the ghost or horror, while this closed downs seasons and possibly holidays), but that is besides the point.
I think it might have been better to use a different background colour, at the very least in the last frame, because the snow looks rather... unclean. Also: grass keeps most of the green for some reason all through the year, so even though the brown matches the colours, it might have been better to blend it a bit with green in some way. Colour schemes are colours.
Jdogg
Zoph: Did he go to Australia? No wait, he said July... WHO FORGOT TO TAKE THEIE DECORATIONS IN? D8
Interesting stylized tree, you might wanna do something different next time you draw whatever that blue stuff is, though. Is it supposed to be vertical water...?
C: Jul, jul, jul, jul, jul, jul jul. Jul, jul, jul, jul, jul, julegaver... Jul-y? Anywho.
I think it is a twisted perspective, Zophia. The water is seen from the air, while the rest.. is not. Also, tree looks spiky.
And while we are at Christmas:
Zlith
Zoph: Nice layout, pretty good amount of details for a Paint drawing~
The specific relation to 'month' is a bit vague, though. He's the king of Halloween, with a Christmas related - hat (I know what it is, I don't know how to say it in English), an Easter egg, a heart from Valentines Day, a drumstick from Thanksgiving and a pot of gold from I-really-don't-know-what...
Holiday-based entry, but since Jack Skellington is known from a Christmas related film, I assume you aimed for December~
Really awesome movie, btw.
C: He shouldn't have looked that mean. Considering he thought he did something good by overtaking Christmas (at least it seems so, because it is so popular and all), he would probably look happy that he got some more holidays.
But yes, rather good image.
Also: I think it is called a cap... Mayhaps...
Zega
Zoph: That is... Disturbing. o.O A calendar tentacle monster~ Glad to see you took Cenere's tip line thickness, it works nicely for this drawing.
Not so much month related, but like most others season related.
C: It looks creepy... But yeah, linethickness = gooood. Also, is that a shadow I see on the tree?
Nice work.
Owen
Zoph: Acid trip calendar! You were kinda drawing a blank, weren't you?
C: *cough*hesaidso*cough* I have a great dislike to the colours... And would have been more fitting if you had done that with only one month.
Superpickle
Zoph: I agree with your filename. O.o
C: You know, you do not have to enter, if you do not have an idea > >
Zoph: Yay, done! A theeeeeeeeeeeemeeeeeeeeeeeeee... Pick a theeeeeeeeeeeeeemeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. I'm not gonna pick, because I'm distance-judging, but whatever you do pick, make it something beginning with a k.
If it's not too difficult to think of something~
C: She is a bit creepy like that, is she not?
Anyway, since I am dizzy-tired and my arm have been hurting since I started this (Needle, THIS big, srsly!) I will pick a good BROAD theme for you, since it seems themes are hard to keep to.
Theme: Keep (yes, that)
Deadline: August 31
Also, I will take a break from judging due to stuff.
Now, to end this round properly:
MoNth