We completed the Monthly Art Challenge for December 2023. Congratulations to @YRH, the winner. And congratulations to everyone who participated by submitting wonderful art, and also to our members who voted for the entries.
And now It’s time to announce the Monthly Art Challenge for January 2024.
Monthly Art Challenge – January 2024 – Topic: Icy Isolation
Feel free to depict what works for you the best. A landscape? Still life? Or maybe even a character scene? As long as it evokes the mood and makes you feel cold and uneasy!
For example, my inspirations for this sort of topic are the movies The Shining (1980), The Thing (1982), and the video game Blood (1997).
I hope this will be an interesting change of pace (and that such a theme is still acceptable…). Thanks!
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.
Rules
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. Please ensure all entries are in the same post.
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 2024-01-27T17:00:00Z, 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(s) will be featured on this website in the featured artwork row.
The winner(s) 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.
Note : We have changed the title of this event from Monthly Art Contest to Monthly Art Challenge as it is more of a challenge for learning together rather than a contest, even if there is an award.
Hi !! I am new to this platform and this is my first piece I am putting in a contest. This piece is called the “Cold Hallway”. This drawing interprets an eerie frosty monster with no name. This monster is following you down a dark strange hallway making you feel uncomfortable and overwhelmed of what things might he do to you. In the drawing you can see that he is slowly melting away do to him not being in his regular icy environment. He died by getting impaled by a huge icicle, and when he came back he was sent to this strange place left to rot and meltaway.
This second piece is about an 18 year old girl that is being tormented by an evil ice demon causing her isolation from her family and her regular life. This demon takes over her body making her into an ice monster, and now she is trapped in this dreadful icy wasteland.
Your imagination blows me away<3 You just started using a tablet with stylus like a week before Christmas <3 Your techniques are amazing already <3 I am very proud of you and I am excited to see you grow up and grow as an artist <3 Keep working hard <3 Keep Lord and Jesus above all and before your steps, so you go in a good direction with your gifts from above, In Jesus Christ Name Amen <3 I love you always n forever <3 <3 Love Mommy <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
My entry for “Icy Isolation”. I had a vast, frozen, remote arctic landscape in mind, then ended up adding the remains of an elk to add a little eerieness as suggested in the prompt. I was cold the whole time I painted it Lol.
Hello all,
This is my first time posting to the forum. I’ve been using Krita for a few years. This was inspired by the freezing Antarctic control rooms in old movies – the suspenseful kind where a breach, an alien intrusion, or a rival spy causes the heating system to fail, leaving the scientists to fend for themselves while they wait to be rescued. I mostly used glaze brush, with some airbrush.
Nothing like a dark snowy pine forest in winter. And you added the aura of a wolf overhead for eeriness! I like the bright blue added around the campfire stones. All the elements kept my eyes rotating about the scene. Nicely done!
really enjoyed joining into the creative challenge for december - so l’m back, despite my work not being likely to fit this prompt perfectly, probably too abstract?
