Monthly Art Challenge – July 2024 – Still life from another world

Looks like my orange beeker is a little high off the plane of the table. Oh well. :slight_smile:

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Well, it’s a magic potion! Maybe a levitating one? :rofl: You’re amazing as always, incredible work :heart: :heart: :heart:

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Your Little Workshop of Frankenborg is amazing! :grin: :heart_eyes:

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This is definitely “Super Bad Ass” :grin:

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Wow, so realistic and has some great details, I especially like the books and how the light passes through the liquid on the open book

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Here’s my entry, Ring on a Horn. Could be Smaug’s horn, who knows? Maybe he’s buried under the gold. :laughing: I also thought square coins fit well with the Dwarven aesthetics…


P.S.: no optional challenge for me this time.

And here’s my second entry. :sweat_smile:


OMG This was so much more work than I imagined when I had the first idea! :face_with_spiral_eyes: Needless to say, I didn’t do gauntlet mode here either. Quite the opposite actually: I never used as many layers before, around 50 or so, with all the textures and effects… For the first time I had some lag on opening Krita after I applied that transformation mask on the typed text! :laughing:
Speaking of the text, it’s real meaningful Latin composed by me, I hope I didn’t make any mistakes, my Latin is a bit rusty so if someone among you knows Latin and can check, I’ll be grateful! The title on the closed book is hand-written and says “About Airs and Skies”. The page on the open book is written in the CAT Schmalfette Thannhaeuser font (100% free on dafont.com) and here’s the translation:
“Remarks and recipe for the potion of LEVITATION by the master Corentin Boxho (I wanted to use it as my signature, you may have noticed before that I like to blend it into the illustration when I can :laughing:).
The mixture of those ingredients produces a levitation or antigravity effect, which implies that the greatest precaution must be taken when mixing them, so that the elements don’t fly away. The ingredients have indeed, while mixted, a tendency to escape from the vessel upward, hence be advised to use a vial with a thin neck.
Here are the ingredients:…”
And if any of you have some doubts that I am indeed a master alchemist, you should know that I finished the game Potion Craft! :nerd_face: :rofl:

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Here is my submission for the July challenge I call it “Interstellar Fun”

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Wow, that’s what I would call otherworldly!
:+1:

Michelist

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This is my entry for the month. I was planning to add some more stuff but it wasn’t really working so I just left it like this.

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I should know better by now than to even glance at your work without a napkin under my chin! :drooling_face: SO DELICIOUS! :sweat_smile:

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Here’s my take…

Gauntlet mode is hard… that ctrl z is such a muscle memory I would tap it three times before I realize I’ve been tapping it… so yeah, painted all in one layer and almost one brush but tons of unconscious undos.

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@edgarej I must say, you reached a pretty impressive level of otherworldliness! :scream:
I guess it’s because you managed to get rid of any recognizable function for objects, like you can’t say “this is a table” and “that is a figurine” etc. :thinking:
For me you won the contest already! :grin: I hereby grant you the medal of WTHAILA (“What The Hell Am I Looking At”). :medal_sports: :laughing:

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lol, thanks boss! Love the medal :heart:

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that looks cool!

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great angle

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Thank you

Thanks! :blush: Working on a second entry! :grin:

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I was curious how you got the canvas texture on your piece?

It is quite easy. Add a filllayer. Set the blending mode to overlay on 60% opacity. Add a pattern. I use 05_paper-torchon.png.

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Thank you. I will definitely be using that on some of my future pieces and possibly on some of my older ones to give them a little more zing. :slightly_smiling_face: