🎉 The Votes Are In! A Massive Thank You! 🎉

The polls are officially closed and we have our winners for last week's art contest! A huge, heartfelt thank you to all 15 amazing community members who took the time to cast their votes:

@justola1
@marsdave
@oluwadrey
@goldenproject
@daverick
@rufajane
@luchyl
@blingit
@chefqueen
@vickoly
@ioanna-m
@nkemakonam89
@gatubela
@soma18
@reyghart04

Your participation is what makes this community so vibrant!

The competition was fierce, but the results are in. Congratulations to all the talented artists who participated!

The winners

🥇 1st place:

@afrikens - The Dragon And The City - TALENT HUNT - 31 pts - prize: 20% of the post's earnings + 300 Ecency Points

Your piece is powerful — both the drawing and the spoken-word lines that accompany it.
The artwork shows a dragon holding what looks like a faceted, dice-like city in its claws, and the way you rendered the scales, wings, and shadows gives it an intense, almost mythic presence. The cube-city feels like a living symbol, and the contrast between the dragon’s raw strength and its careful grip really matches the tone of your spoken words.

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🥈 2nd place:

@pavel.art Cara a Cara - 11 pts - prize: 15% of the post's earnings + 200 Ecency Points

Your work is truly breathtaking, and it feels like you poured not just skill but your whole inner world into it. The way you contrasted the warm, emotional intensity of the face with the cool, contemplative figure behind the door creates a powerful dialogue between the seen and the unseen, the intimate and the spiritual. I can sense how deeply personal this piece is for you—every texture, every spark of light, every loose stroke carries that energy of someone searching, connecting, and revealing something sacred. The struggle you mentioned with balancing the cooler side actually becomes one of the painting’s strengths: it feels like a threshold between two dimensions of your soul.

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🥉 3rd place:

@hrechkosii.wla Primicia - 9 pts - prize: 15% of the post's earnings + 100 Ecency Points

What you wrote is painful, but it is also profoundly human: the feeling of carrying too much, the difficulty of naming yourself, the sense of being “undefined” in a world that expects clear edges. And yet, the artwork you created tells a completely different story about who you are. This painting is full of presence.
The way you shape colors, the way you let warm reds meet cool blues, the way ordinary objects become emotional landscapes — that isn’t something a person without identity could create. Artists don’t become artists because they have a perfectly crafted sense of self; they become artists because they are sensitive enough to feel, to observe, to break, to question, and to translate all of that into form and color.

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Congratulations to the winners! 🎉

Remember, the contest is ongoing! Tomorrow, we’ll publish a post showcasing this week’s submissions. Join the YAF - Young Art Fair Community and support our project! Let’s celebrate creativity together. 🎨✨

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by @asia-pl