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Start the New Year by joining the January art challenge! This month the theme is: Vintage Travel Poster Full details (as well as an optional challenge for those who really like to stretch their skills) can be found here: https://krita-artists.org/t/monthly-art-challenge-january-2026-vintage-travel-poster/156483

There is still time to cast your vote. https://krita-artists.org/t/monthly-art-challenge-voting-open-december-2025-chiaroscuro/151132/58?u=sooz

This release in particular contains many bug and usability fixes for Android. https://krita.org/en/posts/2025/krita-5.2.14-released/

Monthly Art Challenge - December 2025 - Chiaroscuro The word is an artistic term for the use of strong contrasts between light and dark to create dramatic effects and the illusion of 3D. Often, in art and photography, the use of light is what really sets a painting or photo apart from others. It gives it the “wow” factor. Caravaggio and Rembrandt were masters of chiaroscuro. It can be a real challenge to add contrasting light and shadows to your subject matter, which is why I have chosen it for December’s challenge. I see many new Krita artists on the forum asking for advice on how to improve their work, and many times, all it needs is some interesting light and corresponding shadows. Good reference examples will help until you get a feel of directional light and shadow. You may use any subject matter you like… figurative, still life, landscape, animals, portrait, abstract, anything. Black & white, grayscale or color. But decide on your direction of light… whether it’s from the

Design a place that has been abandoned and show how nature has begun to flourish here. You can depict this idea in a realistic way or in a more fantasy-like way (the plants can be anything that, according to your idea, can grow and resemble plants in the usual sense). Perhaps it is another planet Perhaps it is a place after an ecological disaster, and the plants have mutated Or maybe the local nature and fauna have become very dangerous Or a completely harmless abandoned forest glade that conveys coziness and comfort It is important that the work reflects civilization with an emphasis on its abandonment and takeover by local nature. The object of civilization can be a house, transport, establishments, premises, anything where intelligent civilizations of any era and universe could live. There are no restrictions (other than the challenge rules) as long as the drawing conveys the idea Full challenge rules and submission thread.