r/ImaginarySliceOfLife•4 yr. ago

Best of 2021 Awards - Nomination & Voting Thread!

It's time for Reddit's Best of 2021 Awards! Big thanks to the admin for giving our communities creddits to award to our amazing community members and artists.

Choose your favorite submission or comment of 2021!

###Make your nominations here and/or upvote your favorites.

You are welcome to categorize your nominations, i.e. Best OC, Best Comment, Best of Year, etc.
Only one nomination per comment.
Please do not nominate yourself.
You may only nominate submissions made in 2021.

In Q1 2022, the votes will be tallied and we will give mod-exclusive Best of 2021 awards (similar to receiving a Platinum award) to the winners!

Here are a few helpful links to get you started:

Top posts from 2021

OC submissions from 2021

Feel free to message us if you have any questions.

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE AND THANK YOU FOR CONTRIBUTING!

Posted Jan 1, 2022, 3:42 PM UTC

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Adraius•4 yr. ago

Best of Year

He wants some bread (thread link) by Devin Elle Kurtz sucks me in so thoroughly that I can feel the light and warmth and chill, hear the patter, and smell the faint aroma of baked goods as experienced by the expressively posed dragonling.

Adraius•4 yr. ago

Best of Year

Pastel Sunset (thread link) by Sin Jong Hun is a powerful vista view, something not uncommon here, but that really stands out for how well its focal character is positioned to tell the story of their relationship to the surroundings and powerfully evoke that pseudo-nostalgia, that sense of longing, that is a hallmark of some of the best imaginary slice of life art.

unseriously_serious•4 yr. ago

Best of Year

Love the dramatic lighting in this work, there's just something so atmospheric about it. Feels like stepping back in time to a dimly lit grocery store and there's something so peaceful and real about it.

Adraius•4 yr. ago

Also a fan of this one. The use of color to tie together each scene works really well. And overall, the piece has an atmosphere about it that I appreciate.

unseriously_serious•4 yr. ago

Absolutely, its use of color and lighting really pulls you in. Really does feel like a slice of life. Similar work by the same artist which I also quite like.

Instagram, artiststation, deviantart for anyone interested in more of their stuff. :)

standyourground10•4 yr. ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginarySliceOfLife/comments/maiups/river_hut/ - Best OC

Adraius•4 yr. ago

I was wondering if someone was going to nominate this. Great animation.

alterarjuna•4 yr. ago

BEST OF YEAR

Mom_is_watching•4 yr. ago

Best of year: https://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginarySliceOfLife/comments/rfy60a/it_could_have_been_anyone_thats_what_i_thought_by/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

Adraius•4 yr. ago

Using strong depth of field except through the lens of an environmental object as a framing device is a cool idea. The water droplets really sell the effect for me.

Mom_is_watching•4 yr. ago

I particularly like her soft colours and the emotions in her art. The longer you watch, the deeper it hits.

Adraius•4 yr. ago

Notice for people browsing for nominations - for some reason, the sort-by-Top and filter-by-tag methods are erroneously not showing a great many posts made to the subreddit that should be shown. Searching the subreddit for 'by' (a word in most, though not quite all, r/ImaginarySliceOfLife post titles) seems to show those posts properly.

Direct link: [search for 'by' in r/imaginarysliceoflife, within 1 year, sorted by top](https://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginarySliceOfLife/search?q=by&restrict_sr=on&sort=top&t=year)

BlankVerse•4 yr. ago

Reddit search is soooo brain damaged.

Wasn't there a post recently about reddit trying to improve search with an explanation about how to provide feedback?

Adraius•4 yr. ago

There has been some work done on search functionality in the last few months, that's all I know.

firstandlasttoday•4 yr. ago

Best of Year

Adraius•4 yr. ago

Best of Year

Untitled (thread link) by Sam Yang is, hear me out here, not just artwork of a pretty girl, it's really really really good artwork of a pretty girl. Ha ha. The artist specializes in girl-next-door-pretty art of women, and the specialization is obviously working - I won't insist on originality when the results are so arresting.

Wayrest_•4 yr. ago

Best of Year

The summer breeze by With 4

This picture was actually posted 2 years ago and I may have nominated it as my best of year back then, but even if I did I'm nominating it again because I love it so much. There's something about seeing huge cumulonimbus clouds in the distance that just screams "summer" to me. In pictures like this they make me feel really nostalgic for past summers, especially when they're over the ocean even though I've never lived near the ocean.

Adraius•4 yr. ago

I dig this piece too. It evokes feelings of summer and freedom. On a technical level, the artist did an amazing job on the clouds.

firstandlasttoday•4 yr. ago

Best OC

unhingedcorpse•4 yr. ago

Best of the year: https://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginarySliceOfLife/comments/kog2y6/sailing\_by\_xi\_zhang/

Adraius•4 yr. ago

The ever-so-slightly blotchy color detailing on this piece lends it a distinctive flair. Even more than most ISoL art it reminds me of still life and would look very at home as a framed print on a wall.