If I could give one piece of advice, it would be to use Roobet's monthly or special occasion contests as a way to practice, apply, and hone your digital/handmade craft skills. This will help you establish yourself as an artist and be able to create something even more magnificent when Bitcointalk launches its anniversary art contest in a few years.
I mean participating consistently can make you more employable, give you the ability to do some freelancing stuff on the side, establish a good forum reputation, and of course help the Roobet team in terms of marketing. It's like killing multiple flies with just one slap
Actually what I know is that it is not easy to make art, even to be an artist one must have talent since childhood, it is not that easy to make good handwork let alone having to learn to get a monetary prize, this is not just talking about prizes but the difficulty of being an artist and making works for non-experts, I'm sure there aren't many participants who can learn that easily it takes years.
I have no talent in making art, but I can enjoy anyone's work of art and value it very dearly, for that it's only limited to getting a gift, I'm not sure I can make people want to learn to make their own work, the easy thing is to pay an artist to make it, then it's included in this event, a lot of street artists who can be used for that isn't it. it's not expensive to pay street artists to create Roobet's art, but I don't want to do it just for the money.
Reality was as you manifest in your idea, but such a thing is not so today, we are living through a cultural revolution in many areas but the artistic sphere is succumbing to the depths of the absurd.
And that absurdity may not be real for everyone, if not for those of us who see it that way, since there is a subjectivity in that classic thought of thinking that talent has to exist to make art.
Perhaps because we are in a time when individuals are the ones who define these things and not an elite that set the parameters.
In fact, the very premise of what art means is perhaps the madness that we are experiencing in the plastic arts, music, etc...
"The meaning of art is in those who appreciate it as such for themselves"Someone throws three colored lines on a canvas and it's art, a guy who sings badly, has no talent, uses autotune and is a singer, an actor is the best because he's charismatic and has millions of followers.
So, in these types of contests today, even the ones that Roobet launches, it's not about talent or skills of years, it's about participating, trying something creative that promotes your idea, if it's art or not, if it's beautiful for others It doesn't matter, today the one who makes it perfect is judged, not the one who tries.
If you don't get it with the above, look at the voice contest programs, there are the real talents, beautiful voices, and who are the commercials or who are the ones who rule the roost today, artists of the new millennium.
Fortunately such a thing is not 100%, I say that there is talent but that it does not matter, in fact it may sound or they can read me in the idea that I am a counterculture of what happens, Or believe that I am in the line of thought of the quote, but it is that same outdated idea in done, that is, you can't have that idea from only one side, that thought must open up to the cultural situation of today.
Then, that is where perhaps the participation in Roobet art contests is limited to inclusion, they are always the same, perhaps because of that same thought that we are debating, in how these types of contests are focused.
Nowadays, more than in any other era, art is defined as what it is, a form of expression, it is up to the consumer to define whether it is art or not, so for the current times Roobet should change its way of choosing winners.
Perhaps when the Roobet community, its followers in this case the players decide, it will be a (+) "cool" selection for current times.
Consequently for those who are always thinking about conspiracies, well at least one of the prizes should be chosen by popular vote.