Do the judges not realise the strains we artiste are under here???
You think it's a mere matter of having a few images slapped into a 500 x 120 frame!!
There's the mood to take into account, and getting ones mind-set right. I say under a cold shower for four hours to clear my mind of petty distractions and focus my thoughts. (It should have been a waterfall, but there ain't none near here).
Then there's the subject. One has to get into the mind of the person in order to truly know them before setting out to capture their whole essence in that sig. Mock if you must, but I ask, if we were doing a sig for say Hitler, would, I ask, would he really look good on a donkey with the legend "Blackpool or Bust" blazoned across the image?
Artiste such as we suffer I say, SUFFER! for our art. Hours of agonizing over the right shade of blue or eau-de-nil as a main colour?...or a bold red?...such matters can render the artisic mode quite impotent for days.
I'll have you know I went through three cans of Carlsberg making my sig for this comp, they died not in vain I hope.