I worked late last night finishing up yet another Photoshop project. I was very tired by 3:30 AM, and although my project wasn't perfect I knew it was going to impress my professor. Here's my vectorized kangaroo composite:

Little did I know that my professor had a secret design competition planned, between the game designers and the design 'for sake of design' designers. My kangaroo was the best out of the game designers group...

...but a designer student beat me, with a great composite of a jaguar in a forest. It was a close match, but two experienced design professors agreed that, although it was great, mine wasn't the best out of the two.

I felt angry and dissapointed at myself. I'm not a very competitive person, but I hate losing, especially by very little. As time went by, though, I realized what I had to do. I'm going to learn from this experience; I will work on my projects earlier in the week, so that I spend more time working on them overall and not on a single all-nighter. Whenever there's a surprise design competition, I'll be ready.