Proko Challenge Landscape Thumbnails - FINAL SUBMISSIONS HERE
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Stan Prokopenko
January 2022 Proko Challenge with judge @Tiffanie Mang is here! This thread is for posting your FINAL SUBMISSIONS ONLY. Remember to upvote your favorites from other participants. We will have a community choice award :) To post your works in progress, and get the challenge details, rules, and prizes go to:  https://www.proko.com/lesson/january-proko-challenge-landscape-thumbnails-with-tiffanie-mang/ *EDIT: This challenge is closed! Congrats to all the winners! See reaction video and winners here - January Proko Challenge Results
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another outside sketch
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Jake
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My submission for the thumbnail challenge, at the last minute. Five 2" x 2" gouache landscapes. One was a little rushed, go ahead and guess...
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Janna van Vliet
Nice work! Some have really nice muted colors!
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Jake
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I forgot to include my references, I hope I won't be penalized.
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@nofo
Barely made it, but I made it!
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Yann Vtp
nice ones!
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Janna van Vliet
Your colors are beautiful! Such balance!
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Emy Syrop
You captured the lighting and pops of color very well!
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@gwendoingart
My submission for the thumbnail challenge! Had a lot of fun, learned a lot about gauche as well. Thanks!
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Janna van Vliet
They turned out great! Gouache can be such an... er.. interesting medium, wouldn't you say? :D
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@artprojeff
Here's my entry, I have fun doing this challenge.
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Ira Mishchuk
You did it perfectly! Lovely work.
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Janna van Vliet
Nice work!
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hu trang
The theme for this month's challenge is "Pathways and Mountains". Paint medium: Himi Jelly and WN Gouache. Brushes: Craftamo. 12 round and 3/4" mop. Paper: Canson Mixed Media. Lighting is a bit dark in my room. Will post progress pictures on my Instagram. First challenge and it was great fun! Images from Unsplash, names credited beneath each painting and reference screenshot.
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Janna van Vliet
Nice warm colors! Did you do these on coloured paper? Or is that the photograph turning the paper yellow-ish?
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Will David
The theme for my collection is The Great Ocean Road, where I visited last year. I had lots of fun on this one, using Photoshop, which I got recently. My least favourite would probably be the top middle. Just got the images off the internet, from: 1. Darren J Bennett photography 2. Dreamstime.com 3. Silentravel.com 4. Visitmelbourne.com 5. Visitgreatoceanroad.org.au
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Janna van Vliet
I did not read them well at first, mistaken your rocks for clouds because of the use of the brush. But I really do like the overall pictures; colors and brushwork and all!
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Charlene
I like the blobby brush style
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@boopadoop
Hello! This is my entry. I took all the photos except the for the trees, a kind friend of mine have it to me.
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@saralu3a
I like the shapes and the atmosphere 😍
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Janna van Vliet
I really dig your crane!
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Surya Darnal
Hello! This is my submission for the January Proko challenge! Love letters to the lonesome blues of winter, January 22. medium - oils on 2x2 Mdf boards and the reference images used!
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Emy Syrop
Beautiful colors! I can feel the expansiveness of the space.
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Janna van Vliet
These are lovely! The middle one is my favourite!
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@radicchio
How did you get such beautiful colours?
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Mike Crean
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Janna van Vliet
these turned out so illustratively cute! And your series almost tells a story about midevil life getting threatened by a meteorite!
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Mike Crean
refernces. water from imagination
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Mike Crean
above are my submissions, below a few others.
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Done with Gouache on 50% cotton watercolor paper.  +Using size 12 round / 1” flat brushes. well done everybody and thank you so much for hosting this amazing contset, i had such a productive day and so much fun ;) -Respectfully  𝐕 🤍 Ps: my apologies for this Low quality pictures , i had to lower it down because of the 10mb limitation:/
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+ps2: problem solved!
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@gaurimish
Jan proko challenge submission
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Janna van Vliet
Nice job! I like the snowy trees most eventhough they look darker? Like lit differently?
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Sky SanGue
Here's my another entry. It's my first time using photoshop. so hard! gotta invest for pen tablet.
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Janna van Vliet
Wait.. did you do these with a mouse? The most annoying thing about photoshop to me is the finding of the right brushes! There are so many. Still, your colours look really nice!
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@renb
I did 4 in digital using ProCreate. I used the round brush and flat brush. For the smudge tool I used old brush. I'm not used to using digital tools for this sort of project, so it was a great opportunity to practice new techniques and expand my skills. For the 2x2 gouache thumbnails, I used size 12 round brush, and 3/4" flat brush. I took a picture of all the paints I used. I didn't realize until starting that I didn't have any warm reds so I had to get around it as best as I could.
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Janna van Vliet
Nice work! Are the other four tests?
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R.F. Li
It’s very fun attempting these thumbnails. The very 2nd time I tried gouache. Very satisfying. Thank you, Tiffany, for the great demo.
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Janna van Vliet
Nice colorful job!
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Ramon Arriola
Great and fun challenge. Found many mistakes, corrected some habits, learned many things and changed my perspective on thumbnailing.
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Janna van Vliet
Nice and graphic! :) The gas station is my favourite.
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Sharon Leah
Thumbnails -- 2 x 2 inch painted with gouache on Arches 140 pound coldpress, using 2 brushes, a 3/4 in flat and size 10 round. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that I like painting with larger brushes. i live in Minnesota so I decided to embrace it and paint snow and ice scenes. Great challenge to start out the new year!
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@inez
Great choice of colour for the cold and snowy landscapes!
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Janna van Vliet
Really nicely done! The barn is my favourite, even with the changed perspective, the colours are so nice and friendly. Could go on a wall right away! I also like your partly frozen lake with the red trees.
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Ira Mishchuk
Master work!
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Mark Anderson
Always looking for an excuse to practice landscapes since I can't seem to bring myself to doing it most of the time. Had fun with it, but definitely have room to improve. Decided to change up some of the references a bit because, why not, but unfortunately I lost the reference for the snowy thumbnail. Everything was done in Procreate using a hard round brush and textured flat brush.
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@gwendoingart
I love your use of light here, especially in the top left thumbnail.
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magicpumpkins
I like the style you captured in the drawing at the top right.
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Janna van Vliet
Nice atmospheres!
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Donnie Lindsey
This has been a very fun challenge. I look forward to using this method for a long time coming.
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Janna van Vliet
Nice theme! Good job!
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@moonpuri
As I usually focus on Character Concept Art, this challenge was really cool as I could practice something out of my comfort zone. All of these are done with the Flat Brush in Procreate 🌸
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Janna van Vliet
I love those weird brushes you threw in the ice-picture!
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@veraelf
Awesome! The 5th one is so moody, i love it
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