*boop* hahahahahahaha! :D this is great beautiful! yay! I'm glad you finished it on time! now get some sleep o3o lol I should get sleep too but I'm in the zoooooooonnnneee! The zone of INSPIRATION! ;D boop de boop

Your entry is so beautiful Akiko! The leaves blowing through the wind and the shading on the grass and the sunset! But this is an amazing entry! X3

it looks amazing now! i love the flowers and cherry blossoms

Yay, we both have pink trees on our Entries. lulz. Awesome job, gurrl. Your entry is hawt.

Thank you so much guys!
*high fives landy back* I'm really really happy this makes you smile.. I never made anyone smile with my art.. x'3
MiaowBean: Your comment made me giggle xD
Da zone of inspiratioooon, woo!! o3o

Dashy: But your trees look better :P

<Akiko> Re: it's like 2:20 over here but cha just gotta go with da flo O3O I guess it's later where you're at

<MiaowBean> Yeah, it's 3:35 here xD
Oh god, I need to sleep now, but I can't.. owo

SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK :D
atuuiiiiheyiknfd ewe I'm writing stories right now, oh god have I missed writing D: swuoogplhg I WILL FINISH THIS CHAPTER BEFORE BED

Woah, It's 7:O3 here...Lulz.

In the morning or the evening? :3

Beautiful, im lovin that tree

It looks like evening, but the grass makes it look like morning o3e Still really rad

Beautiful!!

its 10:20pm here guess we all live in different time zones

So beautiful !!

Wow, I'm so happy that you're proud of your work, really i am. I'm at a Christmas party probably getting drunk. XD
Like I tell everyone, I wanna say so much about these, but it'll wait till the results. All I can say about these are great job and dawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!

^
PROBABLY getting drunk...?
i thimk you're already at that point xD

This is such a massive improvememt over the other, I love it !

Dat shading, tho :p
I love how you shaded the mane it looks very pretty ^w^

It's 8 here, and I'm assuming it's nine or something where you are.
Anyyay, this is absolutely shocking. In a good way. I love the change to the background, and pink trees are epic. c: Good luck!

This is lovely! She's so silky smooth and that little butterfly in her hoof is perfect! Your gradients are amazing!

Thank you all so much!! x3
I fell asleep at about 3 am or something xD

I still like this picture very much, and that doesn't happen often. Maybe it's not the best painting you've ever seen, but for me it means huge improvement. I finally drew a good looking landscape for the first time.
Maybe I won't win this contest, but I think I already am a winner c:

Hello everyone,

This is just my thank you comment for entering my first contest.

Wow, I didn't expect so many entries coming up fast today, and holy cow, they all really do stand out, as in drawings I can really see in This Week's Best good, wow.To a lot, I just keep staring at, laughing, smiling and telling myself "Oh man this will be our hardest decision ever"

I'm so very proud of you all, and as much as I want to drop a real comment explaining every detail you put in, it'll have to wait until the results, I informed Davidsfire and Kshame/Saio to hold on their comments. Me, I just wanna burst with so many words, really I do, a whole lot, but like Rainbow Dash in the episode "Flight to the Finish" I gotta hold my fangirl-ism attitude and be professional bleh. XD

Any entries after the 21st will not count, same goes with entries less than four hours and camera icon users, but will have an honorable mention in the results for giving it their all.

Right now we're waiting for all the entries to come in, and once my two judges are online, we will discuss them all individually and choose the top winners together, plus more prizes to any other entries chosen by the judges themselves, including myself.

Reminder, if you have any WIPs or announcements, please delete them so the viewers can enjoy looking through the tagged gallery of complete entries only! Even if you want to keep your WIP for I don't know what reason when your gallery should be clean, just remove the tag, it'll be easier for the viewers to see all the amazing art.

And for everyone else, both the entries and just viewers, please take the time to drop a like and comment on all the complete entries for all their hard work and making it throughout this difficult contest of starting artists, regular artists that draw for fun, artists that's name and OC are very well known, and artists with a lot of art experience. No matter in any of these ways, if I love your art to death, or if you're my best friend, these factors will be put aside and we'll just look at the art itself, so no "but I'm your best friend, I deserve a higher place" comments will work.

Results date will still not be announced, I do want this animation to turn out to be a little entertaining and building of excitement, plus try to see the order of how to announce these, with the top ones being last.

I hope you had a whole lot of fun doing this and maybe treat each drawing after this like you are entering this contest and give it your all. If you have anything to say after reading this long comment, just leave a comment in my gallery. Like I said, I seriously can't wait to talk about these along with Davidsfire and Kshame, wow, a lot I can't stop staring at. You all learned many new things and pushed yourselves all the way, now keep climbing that endless mountain, every huge leap is an achievement for yourself and a big smile for your followers.

-Yoshi Ringo

Ach Akiko X)

Zu dir musste ich jetzt unbedingt wieder kommen wenn ich schon auf Colors online bin X)
Das Bild ist....*WOW* O.O Es gibt eigentlich kein angemessenes Wort für dein Talent, deshalb das Grösste was mir einfällt ...."WOW" =D
Ich liebe deine Bilder! Und den 3D Effekt hast du perfekt in der Hand ;-)
Wirklich oberklasse!

awwww ! genau wie Luniii sag ich WOW! =)

Danke ihr beiden x3

Simply beautiful :D

Thank you all x3

Thank yoooouuu >u<

Das Bild ist so superschön, vorallem den 3D effekt hast du wahnsinnig toll hinbekommen ;3

Otaku-Day... google einfach mal Otaku, das dauert mir zu lamg zum erklären xD
Hätte ich nen Laptop würde ich das Bild als Hintergrund nehmen *_*

Frohe Weihnachten, Akiko!

i just noticed....

i liked this.....twice O_O
(look in my liked paintings, youll have to scroll a bit to find it though xD)

^Omg you're right! Lol x'D

*Frohe Weihnachten Akiko* =)
Wünsche dir ein schönes Fest und gaaaanz viel Freude X)

Sorry for this but BlueSky looks terrible in my last pic :/

btw nice pic

Sprite: Thank yooouu >/u/<