October 2026 Art Challenge – WIP and Discussion Thread

Have fun on your trip :slight_smile:

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Well, if I come up with an idea, I will write here

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Still working on the details of the keylock, if I continue with that tempo there is no chance for me to be ready by the end of the month :rofl:

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Hey @steve.improvthis I’m not sure if this helps but I’m thinking you shouldn’t need a white background under your ink layers if you already have the oval shape there. It should be all transparent. Try saving to a new file in case this doesn’t work for you, and then use compression of three, uncheck the save as HDR, select Force convert to sRGB, :crossed_fingers:

@catMonk It looks amazing even as is.

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When you export it as a PNG file, make sure you do not have HDR checked. That will create a murky result.

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Hey there! :slightly_smiling_face: I started working on my drawing today, here’s the first draft…

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Oh my your work looks amazing! I second sooz HDR tip. I haven’t run into any issues with color yet with krita so I would not know any other reasons it could be happening unfortunately. It doesn’t have to have transparent pixels at all if you don’t want it to. Good luck!

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Oh I love the heart shape! Makes you wonder why/what she’s hiding.

Great job. It already looks so polished too, I’m excited to see where you take it.

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88% complete :+1:t2:

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Thank you! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

On the heart I activated Layer Style > Inner Glow (black) to give it a bit of a border, but it looks different than what I was trying to do, I was aiming for something less blurry, so I don’t know if I’ll keep it in the final version. I don’t even know which colors I’ll go for at this point! :sweat_smile:

Turned off the HDR on PNG and… What do ya know! BINGO!
Thank you!

Now if I have some time I might add in some headstones… We’ll see…

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Hey, here’s how things are coming along. Hope I finish in time.

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Princess Action Kitty Clover is about 95% complete. :+1:

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Hi, a few more touches of color.

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That’s a bit too dark! :wink:

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Yeah I’m just messing around. I thought it looked interesting.

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I agree, a bit too dark. Why do not try to focus the light only on the head, now somehow the light leads the eye to the chest.

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Is it too late if I want to work on an already submitted project? I’m thinking about tweaking one of my submissions.