Hello Krita Artists!
This is a discussion thread and WIP thread for our Monthly Art Challenge for April 2025. Ask any questions about the challenge or share your works in progress.
The April Art Challenge was designed by @Katamaheen.
When your submissions are ready, post them in the submission thread linked below.
What counts as a fairy tale here? Does the art have to be about a story by the Brothers Grimm and the like, or can it be about a story from an era or country outside of theirs?
That one! It doesn’t have to be a Grimm Brothers story. What matters is the kind of story that has been told to children for generations.
So, “The Chronicles of Narnia” fit in that category?
I guess you could call it a fairy tale, as it seems to have all the elements of it.
Oh my, now I’m gonna hafta conjure up some imagination and creativity! 
Since we have people from all around the world in here, I hope some of you guys will actually seize the opportunity to make us discover some of your local folklore tales! 
Such a fun idea @Katamaheen ! I’m sure there are those among us who will be happy to move on from landscapes and over to drawing people. 
Of course, if I didn’t do a Puss in Boots, Ginger wouldn’t let me hear the end of it! 
I’d normally pull out InkScape to do something like this. It’s so much more challenging for me to do this by hand, it really has me putting my desires for “perfection” in my graphic designs on the back burner!
Here are the beginnings of the book cover idea…
I have no idea how the Ogre’s castle is going to show up online, I hope it’s not so subtle as not to show or too hard to be seen.
Worked on this a bit. Not sure if I want to make the white space border into a gold paisley… 
Font Used:
Puss in Boots is hand-drawn.
The other is from:
I checked out some videos by Ian Roberts on composition a few months ago after they were suggested by someone here a few months ago, and they were pretty helpful. He talked about how important it is to keep the viewer’s attention focused on the piece, rather than letting it drift off to the next thing. Adding a road going out to the extra whitespace feels like it’s working.
This is the list I started with…
Wikipedia - List of Fairy Tales
So many choices though…really depends on what your fancy is I suppose.
I found a list of the grimmest of the Grimm tales! 
The 9 Scariest Grimm Fairy Tales (I read all 200!) | International Storyteller
That would be so nice! 
I’m german though, so it will be very likely i end up with something covered by the Grimm brothers. 
But recently I’ve found a big fairy tales book from my childhood. Maybe I’ll find something in there.
Lots of research and discoveries this month, huh? I can’t wait to see what everyone has come up with! 
Should it be drawn specifically for this challenge? I happened to draw not long ago an illustration that will fit the theme perfectly but I’m not sure if it is allowed to enter an already existing piece
Should it be drawn specifically for this challenge? I happened to draw not long ago an illustration that will fit the theme perfectly
@sooz - This question seems to be asked every other month or so. Maybe the answer could be provided proactively in the contest “rules” in the future?
Hi @Lilly_Mist
As long as the artwork conforms to all the published rules (including not having been previously posted anywhere on Krita-Artists) it’s fine to submit it.
(Edited to add the word “anywhere”)
That’s a good suggestion. Part of me wants to jump in and add this to the rules but the other part of me wants to keep them as simple as possible.
My recommendation is to leave the rules as they are and we can all answer questions as they come in.
But it’s not solely up to me.
Would anyone else like to weigh in?
Thank you for the reply 
Do folk tales count? I know that fairy tales are a more specific type of folktale, but I’m originally from the Philippines and live in Australia and while there’s plenty of folk tales from the native peoples they’re not traditional fairy tales in the sense that kids don’t necessarily get read or told these stories anymore.
Since everyone is asking… I’m gonna ask too.
I’m wondering if “Just So Stories” by Rudyard Kipling qualifies. My mother read these wonderful stories to us when we were children.
