Week 4: Magui's 'International Gnome'

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It seems things are about to get more interesting in the Gnome Art Contest, and I like that.
There’s not much to critique about today’s piece, so I’m just going to start the controversy and head out because it’s Friday, past 6PM and I can’t believe I’m still writing this…
The picture shows a very artistic and abstract version of the gnome, filled with different sights from around the world, also featuring a footer containing greetings in different languages… but the most important part is how good it looks:
The details are way too good for the average Paint user, and rumor has it Magui owns an optical pencil, something you can draw much easier with.
She has been denying this for a while, saying she did not use it, which only makes everything more suspicious.
The painting is definitely awesome, there’s no doubt about that, but we’ll see what everybody thinks about this, and if they believe in Magui, when it comes to voting the best piece.
Now that Nadia is studying some sort of forensic science, maybe she can help us analyze the tracing of the pixels in the picture and determine whether we’re in the presence of a true artist, or a big liar… [DRAMATIC MUSIC] perhaps we’ll never know.
Note: The editor of this blog strongly believes in Magui's statements.

Week 3: Nico's "Gnome Planet"

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It seems there's a new trend going on lately, and it consists in not delivering the art pieces in time, which is fine with me, but I'm sure there are lots of art lovers out there waiting every week and looking forward to friday. Here are some of the excuses that we got from the painters:
- School took up too much time this week
- My new wireless mouse sucks and I can't really draw with it
- My turtle ate my pen drive
Hopefully, they'll start getting more creative with the excuses moving forward...
Going straight to this week's piece: it exposes a very general concept, which is the gnome in the whole world.
The 'space' in the background could have been a little more elaborated, all the stars look the same, it probably took 23 seconds to paint them all: just selecting the 'airspray' tool in paint and then clicking 23 times in different parts of the screen... c'mon, some shooting stars, satellites or UFOs would have been nice dude.
But the gnome looks good. And I think this picture of the gnome is probably from a long time ago, because he has his old nose in it... he must have gone through some kind of rhinoplasty I guess, to evolve into the gnome that we know today. He probably gets more girls now than he did back then.
We'll see what comes next.
See you next week!