Thank you very much! I look forward to contributing to the group!

Shayde.

and I'm an otter.

You're welcome

No. This, quite frankly, is ridiculous. Absolutely insulting, in fact.

Firstly, glowing body-parts/markings is a highly popular and extremely overused trait among scenedogs, which your contest rules clearly state you do not want.

Second, the third-place winner is not a tiger-wolf hybrid. It's outright a tiger, as you clearly state, therefore goes against your rules.

Next, and to quote: "...Any sketch considered MUST HAVE a front AND a back view!...". The second place winner does not have a back view, and clearly goes against your rules for the contest.

Lastly, I did what I was able to do. I told you when you questioned me on the Chats that I couldn't view sta.sh deviations, so I had no inclination of how you wanted it to look. You said absolutely nothing about how you wanted the hair to look, and in fact you explicitly told me that how I did her hair was completely up to me. I kept your character as a tiger-wolf hybrid, even going as far as to spend the time to put in some of the visual clues that she is a hybrid, including the stripes. I included a full color-pallet, I kept her ears exactly the same, and in fact I DID change her hair by cropping it shorter. I also added piercings to her eyebrows.

Your contest was to re-design your character. I nearly completely re-designed her, and kept to the stipulation that you wanted her to look somewhat the same as she was! I'm disgusted with this. I said I didn't like winning by default, and I don't even mind losing. That doesn't mean I like getting trampled by people who don't even follow the damn rules! So no. You can have your points back, and you can take me off of your 'honorable mentions' section.

And, this was a re-design contest, so as-such I'm taking the design I created for my character and use it myself. I'm not going to let a week's worth of effort(submitted well before the original deadline, mind you.) go to waste, despite wasting my time in the first place.
So, thank you, but no, thank you. You're welcome for being one of the few that participated in your contest, by the way. And here's an additional 5 points for the kind thought.