OMG !!! I WON !!!!

When I got up this morning I had a wonderful surprise waiting for me in the internet:

I won the first and the third prize in an art contest of one of my fave webcomics, Wendy Pini's "Masque of the red death"

http://www.masque-of-the-red-death.com/

A dark, beautiful, gothic Comic-tale created after Edgar Allan Poe's short-story, which Wendy set up in a Sci-Fi world. 

Now what most of you don't know... before I did landscape-art, I was (and still am) also illustrator and do art for some small Sci-Fi and Fantasy fanzines and Wendy was the one, who encouraged me with her beautiful Comic "Elfquest" to start my whole artistic career... Without the magic of Elfquest, I would have never ever started painting at all and so this price is especially a very big honor for me !!! I could embrace the whole world now after I pinched myself long enough to actually believe it ^_^

Yuki, my youngest daughter, became a big Elfquest fan herself and asked me to take part in the contest. I'm glad I did and she will get one of the prizes, a pillow with her hero "Skywise" on it.

Here are my two entries:

"Bunchh", a vivid character of the comic, who inspired so many readers of the web-comic, by his/her lovely way to embrace life, even in sad times...

And here you see Steffan... I often was angry at him during the story, but I really loved him, because he was so hopelessly romantic ^^ AND I loved to draw his hair :)

And here is the link to the contest, with a lots of entries of wonderful and talented people, who took part:

http://www.masque-of-the-red-death.com/social/index.php?do=%2Fforum%2Ffantabulous-fanart-fiction-17%2Fmasque-of-the-red-death-triple-threat-contest%2Fpage_1%2F

All characters (Bunchh and Steffan) are (c) 2011 by WaRP Graphics