Hello Krita Artists! 
Feel free to ask any questions about the challenge or share your works in progress in this topic.
The February Art Challenge was designed by @MossGreenEddie.
When your submissions are ready, post them in the submission thread linked below.
Monthly Art Challenge – Alien World Building – February 2026
Some good reference artist, Forrest Ackerman and Anton Brzezinski
Thanks for the reference info! I moved your comment into the discussion topic for the art challenge (and out of the art challenge topic itself as that is only for submissions).
Sorry about that, I wasn’t paying attention. I saw both and clicked the wrong one.
Can one page comic be accepted in this challenge?
Yes, you can, but take into consideration the poll images are very small and not expandable. Also, the feature banner, which is the prize, will not accommodate a comic page.
(Btw, I moved your question out of the topic where you posted it as that one is only for submissions)
I see. Thanks for the reminder.
Let’s see…
Alien Life Form. Friends (or Foes). Food. Interacting. Wondering is @Corentin is right and cats own the challenge.
Yep, this 30 min. doodle using only the “vb2AE - crayons” brush has it all. 
But seriously, I have no idea what I’m going to do for this month… this is about as far away from my beaches as it gets! 
Don’t they have beaches on other planets? 
It depends if they have liquid oceans AND emerged lands at the same time… 
Alright… let’s see where this one goes…
On a sidenote… so I was listening to some Stevie Wonder when I was sketching this out… and I can’t help but think that the 80’s have the best love songs ever… the sad part about this statement is that a lot of these love songs are just downright creepy now, lol. Also on another sidenote… I miss guitar solos. Why do songs nowadays don’t have guitar solos. Gen Z what is up with that?
So true! 
“A civilization that doesn’t know whether to worship the sandwich or eat it.”
I’m not sure if I should take the idea seriously. 
But at least I got an idea.
I think this month’s challenge is a bit tricky in terms of the concept.
I’m not sure if I’ll color it; maybe I’ll add some things to it.
A big thank you to the sandwich I had for dinner because it inspired me 
I don’t know that I’ve ever painted anything even remotely sci-fi, so this should be interesting. Definitely going for more of a natural wilderness kind of thing.
All hail the sandwich!
I’m in the team “Eat the Sandwich”! 
Giving this a bit of a go.
In a galaxy… where the cephalopods rule… you better run… or you’re what’s for dinner!
I’d see this movie!
I’m not quite happy with the space background, I’ll revisit it from time to time this month. But for now, it’s mostly done.
I think what’s lacking, about the space background, is some place where you can see the deep dark of space… Maybe 1 or 2 holes in the gas cloud, on the side opposite to the nebula?
