Best of Krita-Artists – January/February 2026 – Nomination Submissions Thread

[TBs_thename]

Thanks @Joseiby_Tapia I really appreciate these kind words! I really am flattered.

[TBs_thename]

I’m going to nominate this piece.

Lovely painting by @Rhea_Asma

The eyes in this painting.. very well done

Personal photo

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[Rhea_Asma]

thank you

[Suzuka]

I want to nominate @NAKIGRAL for this awesome painting:

I love that it feels from another world, and despite it’s super saturated, it works perfectly. I could stare at it for long

Environment Study

[1A] Environment study exploring color and perspective, from a simple sketch to a vibrant scene, here’s the timelapse on my YouTube channel. [image]

[Michelist]

This purrfect cute kitten deserves a bigger audience I believe, therefore I nominate @Elixiah’s Calico Comfort to comfort our feelings:

@Elixiah with Calico Comfort

Michelist

[Michelist]

With Old man 5 @z586t created an admiring work that invites to study how it was made, a wonderful study of brushwork - or strokes of genius :

@z586t with Old man 5

Michelist

[Michelist]

And since you should save the best for last, I would like to present @Windlove’s work Call as my final nomination for this month:

@Windlove with Call

Michelist

[Hephaestus]

I would like to nominate @Kannabi.

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Mint Miku

[Mint-Miku] Ditched photoshop and windows for good and switched to Krita and Linux, feels good man.

[Hephaestus]

Unfortunately, even while reviewing the tutorial and reading the instructions, I can’t seem to figure out how to do this the same way everyone else did.

[Kannabi]

woah im already nominated?? thank uuu

[Elixiah]

@Michelist Thank you!

[z586t]

@Michelist Thank you !!

[Mythmaker]

I don’t think I’ve done this for a while.

Some of the images I was keeping in mind have already been nominated, but I managed to find more worth a nomination from the past month and a half.

I was tempted to add another by @peter62 as he’s posted a lot of nice pieces recently, but I think there’s a risk it could split votes with the one already nominated.

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Nominating ‘Gracias Dexter’ by @Suzuka

Gracias Dexter

[dex-V2-SHORTER 1506 (x3.5 16.67fps 302 frames - 18.12s)] Hi folks. This is some artwork dedicated to my dog. I tried to capture the feeling of simply sitting and contemplating the scenery by his side. The place is inspired by a beach near Villajoyosa, in Spain. Drawing and frame animation were done in Krita (and my awesome Pixel Art Suite ), then exported to Godot for adding some shader magic. In the next days I’ll update the SZK Pixel Art Suite, since I added some cool new fe…

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Nominating ‘Bad opal’ by @Sineater

Bad opal

[bad opal]

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Nominating ‘It sings because it has a song’ by @HappyBuket

It sings because it has a song

[Singer1] [happybucket-singersingur]

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Nominating ‘Character Design Practice’ by @Toma_Omito

Character Design Practice

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I had others in mind, but I’ll save them for next month’s shortlist…

[sooz]

@mythmaker Thank you for pointing out the member who left KA. I removed their image from the nominations.

@Jonq It was an image you nominated. Pinging you just to let you know why one of your nominations will be missing from the poll.

[TBs_thename]

last but not least, I’m picking @Yarikart with this wonderful painting.

[Road to the Temple. Digital painting in Krita]

[Jonq]

I understand thank you

[sooz]

I love this piece from @Brian_Bigelow. It so perfectly captures an activity that plays out everywhere, including during a walk.

[sooz]

Thank you for all the fantastic submissions!

The poll will be available later today.

[sooz]

Voting is open!

This poll will be open until 2026-02-14T18:00:00Z. Once the poll closes, the top 5 images will be added to the featured artwork gallery.

Please choose up to 4 nominated images.

• Artwork by @Ws_Ws
  
• Artwork by @Pyrithe
  
• Artwork by @peter62
  
• Artwork by @Devin_Lopez
  
• Artwork by @nahtlaie
  
• Artwork by @ShangZhou0
  
• Artwork by @nahtlaie
  
• Artwork by @TBs_thename
  
• Artwork by @SylviaRitter
  
• Artwork by @FireShepherd
  
• Artwork by @ShangZhou0
  
• Artwork by @TBs_thename
  
• Artwork by @greenajd
  
• Artwork by @Joseiby_Tapia
  
• Artwork by @TBs_thename
  
• Artwork by @Rhea_Asma
  
• Artwork by @NAKIGRAL
  
• Artwork by @Elixiah
  
• Artwork by @z586t
  
• Artwork by @Windlove
  
• Artwork by @Kannabi
  
• Artwork by @Suzuka
• Artwork by @Sineater
  
• Artwork by @HappyBuket
  
• Artwork by @Toma_Omito
  
• Artwork by @Yarikart
  
• Artwork by @Brian_Bigelow