I believe if someone wants to enter a contest KAOS that is their business. Whether or not contests help improve an artist is irrelevant. Every artist, serious or not, decides for themselves what course they take in improvement.

KAOS wrote "The time you spend entering contests, use it to practise your art instead....you cant lose...."

Its fine to suggest other routes for artistic improvement, but to invalidate another's personal choice (whether for improvement or not) is not your place.

I did Muted Portrait Comp and I think it is my best work thus far. I didn't intend it to be, it was for fun. That is what Poser is for me. Fun. If I become good, that is secondary to the pleasure creating with Poser brings me.

Message edited on: 09/17/2004 05:16