Your styles are just all over the board lol. I'm likin em all!

i like your original work very much. i think you have a lot of potential especially with the creative influences at your disposal. i anticipate seeing how your culture will manifest in your fonts. don't be concerned with the top pick thing. you should really focus on giving us unique and fascinating fonts that represent your world. if you continue, i think you have a very important role to play here at fontstruct, especially as witnessed from what you have already done. this one is very effective and displays a certain volcanic energy with the style you use. congrats.

@Adien: lol i dunno how to work that stuff either :P

@funk_king: very well put sir

well it's not a bad thing to want one (a top pick) for sure. and i think although many are content to just do our thing here, for many it is something we strive for. i have been surprised many times thinking something that was a sure fire TP, goes unrewarded and something that i think is just ok, gets one. since it is somewhat subjective, there can't be an exact formula. and although some may think they or someone else deserves one and may make a recommendation, it's still no guarantee. i think the problem is, as you realized, when you start thinking "top pick" while creating a font, it can really get in the way. i'm sure meek and staff realize this and never intended it as such, but perhaps it is the nature of awards. so i would say that it's ok to think about it and maybe in a real conscious way sometimes when creating, but not always. try to keep it in check. don't set that as your ultimate objective or goal. i always say if one person downloads and uses my one of my fonts and gets some joy out of that, then i have truly succeeded. sometimes people let you know with their remarks. i think most silently enjoy our work and never say anything. that's one of the sadder conditions of being an artist - we want acceptance, but many times don't get it. or worse, get criticized. and so we must continue on this sometimes lonely journey. as i said, your work is unique and original, and you have much potential. i would really hate to see you become overwhelmed and frustrated thinking that because you don't get a TP for a font you do, that's its not good or worthy of existing. continue to do your thing and have fun, and the rest will take care of itself.

@Funk_King : wise words, but then why TPs ? These unfair arbitrary made me leave... and continue my path alone

I don't think top picks should be important. If you need a TP to feel good about yourself, then you are missing the point of being creative. If you leave fontstruct just because the people who pick tp's don't like your work, then that is a problem with your ego, not the people behind the selection. The greatest artists created because they wanted to do so, not because they were trying to satisfy other people. Adien, you have been creating some awesome stuff... don't worry about what others think. Just keep being creative and do what you want, not what others want you to.

Like funk_king, I've had fonts that I thought were surefire TPs and got little attention, but I've also had fonts that I thought were nothing special and got a lot of attention.

Just like many things in life, you have to do it for the love of doing it and not the recognition. The recognition may or may not come.