Hello Krita Artists!
This thread is a friendly place to ask questions about the challenge, share your works in progress (WIPs), and even ask for help if you’re stuck.
When your submissions are ready, post them in the submission thread linked below.
4 Likes
Interesting talk about IFs…
3 Likes
Hoping that this month, I’ll finally be able to participate with a finished work 
This is based off my younger years a lot; it’s hard to explain, but my imagination (if I’m unmedicated – to this day) is quite vivid, to the point of near-hallucination-like symptoms of feeling, hearing, and perceiving. This would result in some very nice things; dreaming while awake, seeing more than others did… but the waking nightmares I do not miss 
So I wanted to keep things dreamy looking, but with that threat still looming over close by.
7 Likes
okok im gonna do a sadder one this time around and yk what style it’s gonna be? HYPERPOP CUS I LOVE IT YAYAYYA
1 Like
WIP: Aspiring heroes need to start somewhere, and finding a missing cat seems like a good start. And if you have nobody to mentor you, an imaginary friend is good to bounce ideas.
TODO (apart from general rendering and cleanup): Improve the outfits, emphasize the owl-theme. Add a spectral effect to the imaginary friend to emphasize their non-corporal nature. Finish backgrounds.
8 Likes
Still a bunch of detail work to do, but this is what I’m thinking of for my first Imaginary Friend drawing.
Flying with Teddy
11 Likes
I would like a little help from my more talented artists here. My imaginary friend is a Very Hairy, Not So Scary Monster. they lived under my bed when I was little and protected me from the monsters in my closet.
Seriously - long before Monsters Inc, I had my own version of monsters that were GOOD monsters.
Partly in my mind they always looked a little like the Sprites from Rainbow Brite - sans the rainbow arms and legs. Mostly the ball of fluff with big antenna/ears. I’m learning and working with a fur brush I like - screwed some of it up using the knife with it too much, so I’m going to go back over some of it. arrgh. BUT what I need help with is twofold.
Perspective.
How to make the paws look like they are actually flat on the ground. I feel like I’m close, I have a better designed paw than I thought, but I don’t know how to make the paw flat differentiate between the leg/arm.
Secondly is getting the body to be behind the head. So Just like if your cat was sitting all nice and pretty in front of you with it’s paws on the ground and its entire body centered behind those arms.
11 Likes
First off, your IF is super cute! 
And it’s not like I consider myself to be a “more talented artist here,” but here are my thoughts:
There are lots of things you can do to help add in a feeling of your IF being on the ground.
Krita has a perspective tool, you may find that helpful to use. It might help to add a horizon and a vanishing point to your image. This way you’ll have a “ground” to anchor your IF’s paws to. You might also add in a 3d ‘box’ to simulate where the body would be in relation to the horizon and then draw your IF in that box or series of boxes even. That’s a bit more technical, but it’s there if you want to give it a try.
Also, when I look at your IF’s left paw, it seems to be aimed in, i.e., towards the right paw. Do you think it’d look more natural to have it pointing either forward or to the left?
If you google “cat sitting facing me” and select the image option, there are a ton of reference images to see what a cat looks like in this pose. If you feel your IF looks similar, you can see how their paws, back leg poofs, and tails look IRL and create for your IF from there.
And finally, if you look at the way my duck met the sand in last month’s challenge, you can see how I ‘cheated’ with the sand, having it creep up the duck a little bit. There I added a shadow to create some depth. Both are tricks to have it look more ‘grounded’. (I did the same thing with my St. Louis Arch drawings a few months ago using grass… as I recall.)
Shadows can go a long way in helping to create depth and separation in your IF’s arms and legs (paws?).
At the end of the day, it’s your IF and however you draw and paint it, it will be just perfect!
Hope that helps!
4 Likes
I do have in mind the rest of the area around my little IF, but I wanted to focus on my friend first.
I always get very confused by perspective tools. I try to use them and understand them. But so many tutorials on them don’t use organic scenes, its almost always buildings and streets (straight lines, not curves and natural shapes). So I run into mental trouble understanding completely.
I can’t sleep tonight/this morning, so all the more time to work on this little one.
Just starting… my imaginary friend is something between an alien and a robot. I am an introvert, communicating with people was never my strong side, talking with AI is much easier, so I guess this is the reason for picturing my imaginary friend like this
8 Likes
First idea based on I.f. guiding you in the wood so to not get lost. The character was created for another challenge and I gone with the theme instinct, wich if you personnify it is kind of like a I.f. but more pratical in a way so here he come.
For the second idea will be cuter with a plushie, I need to go check a bit of dance before.
10 Likes
I remember my daughter being a big fan of dragons even up into early teens and thought this would be a good subject to work on. I picturing a tame looking dragon with the floppy ears and I want to show it in a way that the girl is the only one seeing the dragon. A work in progress…
13 Likes
Plushie : At first I wanted to make in one image two part : young/older. But that may not be the best idea, well let’s make the young part, the other participation and see.
10 Likes
Color is always the first thing I consider, as it sets the emotional mood. Cool, muted blue tones reflect sadness and loneliness, while warm beige shades represent a sense of comfort and security. “The Silent Companion” makes no demands - it simply stays by your side when you need it most.
For now, it is just a draft, and I plan to add more details.
12 Likes
I like the gentle gaze of your daughter
1 Like
Thanks! Although there is a bit of likeness, it didn’t turn out to be her, but I think the look came out better than planned.
1 Like
Done many, multiple revisions of my little imaginary friend - I think this is the 4th version since my post?
I have two questions for feedback.
One - which of the legs/feet gives the best furry look/feel . My creation will only have two legs, but I’m still trying to figure out how to make the fur look right.
and second. Please, please please help me understand the secret of drawing in the shape to create the look of fur. It’s not quite a triangle. I absolutely can not figure out what I’m doing so terribly wrong to create that look. I’ve tried drawing the little triangles, I’ve tried creating my shape and filling the color and using a blend knife (various sizes of the tool).
I’m using Windows and have a XP-Pen drawing tablet, so I have pressure and tilt sensitivity all that and I’m getting used to using them (they never worked quite right in Android no matter the app).
6 Likes