@BichonBistro
It's good to ask questions--we are here to learn! Reading the threads that others post--including yours--is helping me understand things better, too.

You did a good job coming up with different scenarios to look at throughout the drawing, like the styles you mentioned.

If you are looking for more to add, maybe you could try more variation in the body shapes & faces. You could try different sizes / shapes in the trees as well.
Other actions & things to add: playing frisbee, snow angel--I thought there was one at first, but it looks like it's actually a wipeout--so maybe it would be too repetitive with that guy already there, but you could have the angel-maker with their arms against their sides & just show the pattern in the snow. Do bunny-people have pets? Maybe a pet mouse (like bringing your dog to play in the snow). You could also add some little wild birds and/or animals on the side or in the trees.

I think the mesh fence needs to be thicker, since at first I was just noticing the posts. Or you could just take the fencing back out. Also, the footprints in the snow--next to the bunny in red, at the bottom right--are darker than the other footprints & run right into the bunny's arm.

I like how you changed the bottom of the slope & added the background. It adds a lot to have the hills layered behind the scene.

@tessaw & @Chip-Valecek
Thanks Tessa!

I just did a Google search for "free online photo contest platform" and there are some free ones.

I'm looking at http://hostphotocontest.com/.
Pros:

• You can make some fields mandatory (so people can't forget to put in their name & SVS name)
• You can limit the number of entries, if you wish
• Should be easy to have people submit to the contest, and to vote
• It looks like you aren't able to vote until after the entry period is over (but I'm not sure how that part works)

Cons:

• It's supposed to let me upload a photo for the contest, but it's not working (so I kind of wonder how well the site works)
• To enter the contest, you need a log-in that requires you to submit your email address
• There is space on the contest page to enter text, but it doesn't link web addresses (so we can't link back to SVS or the forum--we can only type the address for people to copy & paste)

@chip-valecek & @TessaW
Chip, if you could create one, that would be great!

I was just trying out Google Forms.
If we use this, we would have one link for submitting an entry, and another link for voting.

Technically, each person would be helping build the form when they submit their entry, by using the 1st link to go to the page for editing the form, and adding their name & their illustration as an "option" to the one "question" on the form.

Once everyone has submitted their entries, we would make the survey available, and people would use the 2nd link to go to the survey, where they can click the check-box(s) next to the ones they like & submit the survey.

Here's the link for the sample survey I created: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1XFb_ju6gnfdpULR8Hm7LOm6L3RsWjboO8mxFxI0RzhM/edit

If you click on the icon that looks like an eye (on the upper right side of the page), you can see what the survey would look like for voting.

It's not ideal, but it could work, and no one would have to copy images over for people.

@tessaw @Chip-Valecek & @Lee-White
I was thinking a poll-type voting system would be good, too. But that's basically what the up-votes were. It would be nice if we could have the images in the same place as the voting. I think you can add images on the Google Forms surveys. But with polls/surveys, someone would have to copy each image over, and that's part of the problem we had this time...

...Unless you give everyone access to the Google Form and have the official method to submit your image for the contest be to add it as another option on the form...? This might be too complicated for some people.

** thinking about this some more... **

@heidigfx That's true. Hopefully no one did anything like that!

@bichonbistro Oh, right! I was thinking of the regular contest posts. :(

@bichonbistro Maybe try using Ctrl+F (or Command+F) to search the page for the person's profile name?

@lee-white , I think there is a way to control the way the images load.

1. Click on your profile icon at the upper right of the page.
2. Click "Settings" on the drop-down list that appears.
3. Scroll down to the box labeled "Pagination".
4. Go to the option for: "Paginate topics and posts instead of using infinite scroll".
   I think the automatic setting is for the box to be checked. (It looks like it's supposed to help pages load faster, by not loading all the images at the same time.)
5. Try un-checking the box and see if it fixes the problem for you.

I hope that helps!

Also, you don't need a rule against up-voting twice, since if you click it a second time it removes your up-vote. You can tell by watching the number next to the arrow.

@lollyw
I like the movement of the cord, and the shimmery effect of the circles.