MAGMML3 #142 - Beat Your Own Expectations

It’s my level for this contest! And honestly, I was not expecting to get this high. Considering the fact that things went so far off of plan, and my own actual work period was about two weeks rather than two months...my expectations here were not immense. And that, really, is why the judge reviews hit me a bit harder than I expected them to, and why I get a little bit lost for words. Yeah, they aren’t all positive, and in some cases were downright harsh on some aspects. But that’s highly understandable! I have strengths and weaknesses as a designer, and that was highlighted pretty amply. But I was expecting this to end up focusing more on the weaknesses...so having the amount of positive reception it had sort of caught me up. The strongest encouragement I can imagine is when people who don’t know it’s your work get something that you don’t feel is your best work and receive it largely favorably. Especially when you’re expecting less than that. Ultimately, that’s one of the reasons I like these contests – because they can give people who might be less than confident in their potential reason to believe in themselves. So, yeah, this ultimately really encourages me to get involved in more stuff like this. Though, I think I might want to consider collaborating with someone with a better artistic eye! Because yeah, aesthetics may not be the biggest score bank, but I definitely took hits there.