Robindcr8l

Arw, thanks for the last row of pics! I always feel left out of the loop when I can't see it. Same in the gallery, but, of course, as soon as one new pic is added I can see the row I was missing out on there. Congratulations to all of these fantastic artists!

maddyjean08

If I didn't get to see all of those great pics, I, too, would feel left out.

marius

Wow! Many congrats to all the top 5's! And also congrats to the top 5's that didn't "officially" make it, but are there anyway in the minds and hearts of many.

And, a thanks to all those who've encouraged TD to adjust their voting/rating system. Definitely like it that a one vote no longer excludes a pic from being in the top 5. Yippee!

Again - congratulations to all!

maddyjean08

If rating doesn't get us into the top 5, then what does. Does Rachel read these? If she does, this is for her: What makes a picture get into the top 5? I'm sure at least some of us want to know. If we knew, we could do some serious improvement. That's what you want, right?

a4e4ka

Congratulations to all Top 5's! And the best wishes to all TD artists - we have so many talented people here and the number is growing! Many wonderful pictures did not make it to Top 5 this time, but truly deserved to be there... Good luck to all of you in the future and thank everyone for your beautiful artwork, creativity and sharing!

maddyjean08

I agree, there are wonderful pictures that deserve to be in top 5. I'm pretty sure we can only have certain ones. If we decided to put up every worthy picture, we'd probably put up 3/4 of think draw pictures!

Login

Well, I could easily have used 10 'favourite' votes in each category so, for me, that's at least 30 more drawings that I wanted to see there.

maddyjean08

Do you think we could fit that many on there? Maybe we could but it would be very small pictures. Well, if, of course, we tried to fit it all on one page.

a4e4ka

It can be done if each category has it's own page.

maddyjean08

You're probably right. And I think you should check out my profile. You might find familiar work.

polenta

Maddyjean, I looked at your profile and you are only ten!!!! And you work for your own pocketmoney. You're a darling. Children like you will be TOP ONE one day. Your parents must be proud of you and we are glad you are on Think Draw.

Login

'Must add that many of those drawings I wanted to favourite (but ran out of 'votes') achieved Top 5 places, anyway.

polenta

Same as Login. I begin favoriting and when I run out of favorites, I never take away what I have given. It might be unfair to the people who draw superb pics the last days of the month.... but what can I do? As Login says many of them DO get a Top 5 anyway.

Login

I have to admit that, for August, I allocated my 'favourite' nominations whenever I saw a picture that moved me. The problem was that I ran out of nominations before we were half way through the month ... and I had to make gut wrenching decisions when even more stunning drawings cropped up later in the month. I hated unticking pre-selected 'favourites' but I did it.

For September I created category lists in a Word document and made my decisions on paper on the last day of the month. It was labour intensive but worth the effort. Not all my favourites made it but, happily, some of those that I unticked did.

matthew

I start off day 1 choosing my favorites... Once I have filled all 5 slots in a category, & a top 5 worthy pic comes up, I decide like this...

If the new pic is better than a currently chosen pic, then I do not hesitate... The new pic will replace the old...

If the new pic is "equal" or I can not decide if it is "better" than the old one then the old pic stays...

If you are a person that tends to second guess yourself, The favorite selection process will second guess you to death... By the end of any given month, there are way more than 5 deserving pics in each category... So find a process that works for you and stick with it...

And may God have mercy on us all...

Dragon

That's pretty close to my method too matthew. I tick them as I go along. I only pick the one's that really are my fav's. I don't really look at them and say 'Now is that Top-5 worthy or not'. I had a terrible time last month because I did the Mugdots challenge with Dragons as a theme and I very quickly filled my fav's with those. That was fairly early in the month and I had to get ruthless later on. Some of my fav's are one's that are personal to me, like some of the birthday wishes I rec'd and I just loved them so much I had to keep them where I could see them.