Each month, around the 15th, we’ll post a nominations thread. Krita-Artists members can make up to five submissions in each monthly thread. This nominations thread will be open for submissions until 2025-07-11T18:00:00Z.
Everyone is welcome to vote when the poll is published. The five images receiving the most votes will be inducted into the featured artwork row. Winning images will also be entered into the Best of Krita-Artists – 2025 competition at the end of the year.
Best of Krita-Artists – 2025
In January 2026, we will publish a post containing all the winning entries from the previous year. K-A member voting will determine the top ten and these finalists will be awarded a “Best of Krita-Artists – 2025” badge. In case you missed it, here are the results from last years’ winning entries: Best of K-A 2024
How to Submit a Nomination for Monthly Featured Artwork
Tag the artist using their @ name, insert a link to the full-size image and then add a link to the original post. You may want to open 2 tabs in your browser as you will need to refer to the original post twice.
Detailed Posting Instructions (click to open)
Open a new reply in this thread and type the @ name of the artist you are nominating.
Go to the artist’s post and click on the image. When the image appears on your screen, right click and copy or save the image link (image address).
Return to the nomination post and press hyperlink or ctrl+k. Paste the URL (optional title is not necessary). Once the link markdown is inserted into the post, add a single ! (exclamation mark) before the [ (the opening square bracket) of the link. It will look something like this: 
Return to the artist’s post and copy the URL. Paste this URL into your nomination post.
Save/publish the post.
Guidelines
Forum members may make up to five nominations per month.
You may not nominate your own work.
All artwork published in the Artwork:Finished Artwork category is eligible. The only exception is artwork that is already featured (look for the “featured” tag next to the post title).
The featured artwork nomination process is brought to you by Krita-Artists’ Admins and Moderators. We welcome feedback and suggestions. To submit feedback, please click here and add your thoughts.
Next up is @NovaAstralis with her work “Becoming the Lake”. It makes great use of a limited colour palette, uses a unique graphical style and an interesting pose of the main character. You can really feel this druid or sorcerer holds power over the waters.
My third nomination is “Inspired from Alice in wonderland” by @Cheshire. This artist already shows amazing skill, even though she only learned to paint with Krita recently. While her username makes a cameo in the flat colour scribbles of the background, the eyes are drawn to two beautiful girls in the foreground painted in semi-realistic manga style. Bold colours, a nice shadowing style and gentle lineart round of the picture.
“Torii and Geisha” is an artwork of a colourful and symmetric style that you don’t see every day. Its creator, @Syntetyc not only shows the drawing process on video, but also has created and uploaded his own brushpack here.
While @ynr_nohara is not exactly new here (check this huge sketchbook!), the artist is making great progress lately, experimenting and training a lot while carefully evaluating the results so we can learn as well. What I notice in “Lucy Cyberpunk Egderunner Fanart” is a step forward in the 3d effect, values and skin rendering while also featuring a powerful rainbow colour scheme which does not look easy to pull of.
It’s time to vote on the featured artwork nominations for June/July 2025. This poll will be open until 2025-07-14T18:00:00Z. Once the poll closes, the top 5 images will be added to the featured artwork gallery.
Woah, crazy! 5 times the same ranking achieved …
Whoever will be in and who not doesn’t matter, you all did a great job, and @Yaroslavus_Artem shot the bug. Congrats to ya all @Yaroslavus_Artem, @ynr_nohara, @Ape, @Gurkirat_Singh, @TaleOfACat, @z586t! You, and all the other participants too, did great!
All I can say is: I wish the moderators much enjoyment in determining the rankings. In other words: Happy tie-breaking!
Each of these images are currently being displayed on the featured artwork banner and will be included in the Best of Krita-Artists 2025 poll to be held in January.
Thanks so much!
What I notice in “Lucy Cyberpunk Egderunner Fanart” is a step forward in the 3d effect, values and skin rendering while also featuring a powerful rainbow colour scheme which does not look easy to pull of.
