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Steven,
Remember some people are too nervous to eat, whereas others EAT (indiscrimately) WHEN NERVOUS (like me). If you are a member of the latter species, you'd GAIN!! 15-20 pounds before summer.
Peggy,
I see your point about the process of entering competitions serving the purpose of getting practice presenting yourself. So, I do agree that at least doing the work to enter competitions keeps your marketing skills sharpened I guess.
However, the thing that struck me, was that there were 600 entries from whom which eventually 1 was the winner. That means a portraitist has a 1 in 600 chance or so on average of getting selected. This works out great, if you win, but what about the remaining 600? Would that indicate that a very small number of portraitists actually benefit. Also, there could have been several portraitists whose work might have been so close in quality that the selection of the winner might have depended on the subjective notions of a single judge - art, I've always thought, is highly subjective, although I guess the judges must use some kind of excepted judging standard.
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