Hello Krita Artists! 
This is a discussion thread and WIP thread for our Monthly Art Challenge for February 2024. Ask any questions about the challenge or share your works in progress.
The February Art Challenge was designed by @Elixiah.
When your submissions are ready, post them in the link below.
Only lasso? Or lasso, rectangle, polygon selection etc?
As far as I understand from the rules of this month’s challenge, all kinds of selection tools fall under this category, like the one in the youtube video for example, it also uses the different types of selection tools that you mentioned.
Architectural/Urban Scene + Selection Tool Challenge = Low Settings Video Game World Scene!
The windows, so many windows…
Edit : WIP - I am in the early stages of painting an old pub. It looks Victorian but a lot of the buildings nearby are much older so there may be older parts underneath the outer layer It is based on a photo of mine from 2006 and is from a town where I was born…
There is a sign on the front with some interesting historical info which I shall include later
Let’s clarify. Selection is not such a cool tool. And it can leave pixels on the edges. It is easier to use shapes with fill. Freehand tool. Alchemy brush. You can change opacity, blend modes. It’s more like “don’t use a regular brush challenge.” You can also make a feather selection and make a gradient in this way.
That’s wip I did with all of above. I can’t imagine how much time I would spend on this, using only the selections.
@wpfosh , Yes! Any of the selection tools. I think the lasso tool is popular for freehand stuff. 
It’s just an optional challenge for this month’s topic. My reasoning for adding this option is to explore some of Krita’s tools and their uses. I suppose if you are already familiar with using selection tools for painting, which appears to be the case in your lovely painting above, then you are way ahead of a lot of us here! Lol
Did you watch the video I attached? It was a quick and easy example. Selection tool painting is a style that I see a lot of concept artists use to get something down quickly. It’s a style, like any other style I reckon.
Limping along. Maybe I should be selecting larger areas first, then fill in however?
Stump Street, Key West, Florida
A little further along. I think after I finish this one, I’ll start another in a much simpler style that will be more suited to the lasso tool.
wow that is going to be incredible!
Lovely work
I’m trying to use the lasso tool all I can. Sometimes it’s useful, sometimes seems not so much Lol
@MangooSalade @Staticgirl @Elixiah nice start so far guys
@wpfosh so is that image an entry of yours for this challenge? or is it an example image your posting to prove your point about the lasso tool? either way, that’s a very cool image.
Anyways… about my entry…
I really wanted to do a plein air study for this challenge. I wanted to go around my neighborhood and draw. My apartment complex actually have some cool swiss/tudor style architecture that I wanted to study. Alas… my astigmatism was going to make the endeavour difficult, so I ended up depending on my old home-brewed techniques…
I decided to do draw brutalism architecture. I’m not exactly sure what the environment this girl found herself in… but I think that’s the beauty of brutalism architecture… it’s hard to define the environment since it’s so plain concrete.
I’m going to sleep on this image before calling it done. Anyways… here’s some WIP’s;
my 3D block in render;
my sketch;
Very cool to see your process. Thanks!
Could you please give a link to the reference photo so as to give proper credit to it?
Done! But I thought If you found a pic on a royalty-free site, you only had to write the name of it? Was I wrong?
It’s not about money. It’s about giving credit to the original artist and/or the website that is providing the resource as well as giving people the ability to find the reference and use it themselves if they want to.
I’ve just checked that link. It says credit is required.
I get what you said, and I posted the link. Maybe what you said should be written in the rules, as it seems a lot of people don’t seem to know about it…
