The Monthly Art Challenge for July 2024 is complete. Congratulations to @Elixiah, the winner. And congratulations to everyone who participated by submitting wonderful art, and also to our members who voted for the entries.
@Elixiah has passed the honour of choosing the next monthly challenge theme to the first runner up, @DavidMahl.
Monthly Art Challenge – August 2024 – Topic: “I am 5-year-old Kiki and I’m scared of…”
@DavidMahl designed this challenge in recognition of August being Kiki month.
Thanks, @DavidMahl, this is a great opportunity for artists to practise facial expressions and body language. We can’t wait to see what everyone creates!
Please post only artworks and discussion related to submitted artwork in this thread. There is a WIP thread for each monthly art challenge in which you can ask questions and post your works in progress.
The composition should be your own and not an exact copy from someone or somewhere else. If you are using a reference photo taken by anyone other than yourself, please ensure the license allows for its use and include a credit to the photographer with your submission.
Artwork should be done in Krita. Submissions must be done from scratch in Krita, no paint-over or tracing allowed. Photobashing is allowed only when explicitly specified in the topic.
The topic changes every month. Your submission should be somehow related to the topic. If possible, please add a few lines explaining your idea and image.
No AI-generated images are allowed, not even partial use of AI and paint over. It is unfair for those who are drawing from scratch.
You can post a maximum of 3 entries and also edit the entries until the deadline. All your entries will be clubbed during the vote and you only get one vote. Reply with your entries to this post in this thread. All entries must appear in a single post. Please do not post your submissions in any other category on Krita-Artists until voting has closed and the winner is declared.
In order to have the image featured, the entries need to be safe for work so please avoid any NSFW or controversial content. The moderators can use their discretion to disqualify the image from the contest with prior notice. Of course, the artist will be given the chance to submit an alternate image or change it.
Submissions will be accepted until 2024-08-26T16:00:00Z, at which time the topic will automatically close. You can check how much time is left at the bottom of the thread.
We will hold a poll at the end of the challenge period. The artwork with the most votes will be the winner.
Prize
The winner will be featured on this website in the featured artwork row.
The winner will have the privilege to set the topic of their liking. If the winner is not available or reachable, then the 1st runner up will be asked to provide the topic and challenge
The winner will also be awarded the Monthly Art Contest Winner badge.
Please spread the word about this art challenge by posting your artwork on various social media websites with the hashtag – #KritaChallenge. If possible, include a link to the forum post.
I hope we will enjoy this exercise so let us begin.
P.S. Note we can change the rules based on the feedback on this contest and modify the format. Any suggestions are welcome. To submit feedback, please create a new topic in the Site Feedback category.
Hello fellow Krita creators, I haven’t participated in an art contest for a while now but I decided I wanted to try again, the last time I participated I was 13 now I am 14. Just trying to make it out there as a young artist . So I decided to portray Kiki as a 5-year-old little girl that’s a human, and every time she sleeps the monster from under her bed comes out to play. she always draws the monster to try to express what she sees, because her parents are in denial. I try to include her interest in art so its similar to Krita itself being built up of art. So in this scene its a similar night as usually but it seems to be coming closer a little too…close?
I hope you’ll like this piece all of you guys are so talented wish you the best.
Hi everyone,
I don’t have much skills, but I tried to do a reinterpretation of Skrik by Edvard Munch.
The idea of Kiki being scared comes to me from an “Art Nightmare”, where she finds herself trapped on an expressionist world. (hopefully just a dream )
@bob2 your painting is very nice but I struggle to see a 5 y-o cyber-squirrel in it… Is she afraid that she has been transformed into an adult lumberjack (such big hands) by a witch?
Hey guys! Here’s my entry. It’s been ready for a few days but I wanted to let it rest for a while, to make sure I had no more corrections to make instead of reposting several amended versions as I did last month…
So, did I mention how I like film poster parodies? LOL Of course I had to do this. As soon as I read the topic, I immediately thought of the poster of Home Alone! Even though Kevin in the film is older than 5, I tried to rectify this as much as I could in the anatomy of my Kiki.
I had my frame but what would she be afraid of? There was many possibilities to put behind the window: I could exploit her cyber side and make some bugs, or even the mascots of some competitors (Gimp’s mascot would make a great Big Bad Wolf! ), or exploit her squirrel side, and I though about drawing Disney’s Chip and Dale doing silly faces! But then I realized that unlike in the original poster, her buns here would hide the most part of the window so I decided to make the window itself the symbol of Windows as if it was on a monitor after a CTD…
Now the mandatory remark about the fonts I used, as usual the free version I found the closest to the original (referenced from fontmeme.com/home-alone-font/), so I used the Century font provided in Windows with reduced space (-5.00) instead of ITC Century Book Condensed that seem to have been used in the original, and I used Jungle Fever (100% free on dafont.com) instead of Lithos Pro Black for the flavor text…
Like me, you should have trained as a technical draftsman towards the end of the 80s, when people were still drawing with real ink. I don’t think you could get a better foundation in the use of tools anywhere else than in such an apprenticeship. Three and a half years of pure drill for the complete training.
Thanks @Elixiah , from a master like you it’s such a moving compliment.
Speaking of your training @Michelist , when will we ever see something from you? Don’t you like to play with Krita too?
Since I can not control my right hand anymore, a gift from the strokes I had, it is unlikely I will show something presentable. The only thing I kept doing is making some icons for my music playing app, that is something I can do with my mouse mostly and the precision is enough.
@Michelist So sorry to hear that! Maybe you could try with your left hand? I say this because when I had carpal tunnel surgery on my right hand, I played around with drawing with my left hand for a couple weeks. Felt really strange, but it was oddly satisfying to create something… albeit a totally different style Lol
As far as technical drawing, I did quite a bit in 80s and 90s at work, but it was all vector. I am proficient in CorelDraw, but digital inking is a different story and evades me. I haven’t messed with vectors in Krita much… it seems pretty alien to me since I learned with CorelDraw. I enjoy digital painting much more
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), or exploit her squirrel side, and I though about drawing Disney’s Chip and Dale doing silly faces! 
But then I realized that unlike in the original poster, her buns here would hide the most part of the window so I decided to make the window itself the symbol of Windows as if it was on a monitor after a CTD…
Did you try learning to draw with your other hand? With enough time and training it should work? 
