Hello Krita Artists
The Monthly Art Challenge for February 2025 is complete. Thank you, @Mythmaker, for creating that challenge. And congratulations to everyone who participated by submitting wonderful art, and also to our members who voted for the entries.
@Elixiah was voted the winner and has designed something fun for this month.
Virtual Plein Air Painting
For the March challenge, we will be doing a virtual plein air painting … using either MapCrunch or Google Maps street view for your references. It’s easy, fun and the subject matter is virtually limitless.
If you’ve never used MapCrunch, it’s a global random street view app. All you have to do is click “GO” and it will randomly select a street view somewhere in the world. In “Options”, you can select a specific country, urban or rural views. Just keep hitting “GO” until you find a scene you like.
If you prefer Google Maps, just navigate to somewhere in the world that interests you and click on the little yellow man in the bottom right corner for street view. Then click anywhere on the blue lines on the map.
You can choose any scene anywhere in the world with maps street view for your reference…. a country landscape, a city street, busy market, landmarks, buildings, anything you can find on street view. When you post your entry, please include a link or screenshot of to the scene with your entry. MapCrunch has a “Share” button, and Google Maps has a share link in the 3 dots menu of street view.
For the optional challenge, enter two different paintings…. one urban and one rural, or vice-versa. For example, if your first entry is a city or urban scene, then make your second entry a country/rural landscape. You may use any painting style you like.
Here are links to MapCrunch and Google Maps. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask!
MapCrunch - Random Street View
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 (WIPs).
Monthly Art Challenge WIPs and Discussion Thread – March 2025
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. 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 2025-03-26T18:00:00Z, 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 next 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.
Good job!
