Design Your Own Mech

The pink teddy? It's kind of unproportional and just plain dull. While the grand prize entry aint the best drawn, it captures the Maple feeling quite nicely. Second price is just sad.

Are we looking at the same pictures here? The Grand Prize image doesn't feel maple-y at all. It's just a lot of shades of grey. It actually seems more like something you'd encounter in a Final Fantasy than Maple.

I'm no artist so maybe I'm missing the finer points that make the pink teddy "unproportional" because it looks pretty proportionate to me. It has far greater detail and shading than the grand prize image, as well as better use of colouring and a far more charming style. It also doesn't feel as cluttered as the grand prize image, but is clearly packing some fire power. I have to wonder if it's just the fact that it's pretty girly that's making people give it a thumbs down.