We are pausing the Weerdmester Masterclass for one week.

If you don't know yet what's going on yet, here are the rules:

1) Choose an artist you like, you admire, you stalk or you just want to mess with.
2) Create an artwork imitating their style, techniques, colour choices, and/or themes.
3) Pretend they are the author of that piece.

Canvas Size - What would your chosen artist do?
Colors - What would your chosen artist do?
Transparency - What would your chosen artist do?
Animation - What would your chosen artist do?

Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak

Episode 4

Create a piece with only silhouettes.

You have to use the Tea Cakes Palette by Qirlfriend

Canvas Size - Exactly 480x270px.
Colors - Max 12 (use the palette).
Transparency - None.
Animation - None.

The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.

The winners are velvetChaika, cardo de comer, and Aetherion.

🔥 From stone to bronze—civilization rises! 🔥
The next theme is The Bronze Age, Agriculture, and Ancient Civilizations.

"Go up on the wall of Uruk and walk around,
examine its foundation, inspect its brickwork.
Is not its masonry of kiln-fired brick?
Did not the Seven Sages lay its foundations?"
— Epic of Gilgamesh

It runs until March 29—join in here: https://maetheria.com/

Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak

Episode 3

Create a sprite or a scene where a thief steals something very unusual/big/clumsy shaped.

You have to use the Clumsy Dozen palette made by windfallapples (glacier).

Canvas Size - Max 200x200.
Colors - Max 16 (12 from the palette and 4 additional colours of your choice [or 3 and transparency]).
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.

The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.

Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak

Episode 2

Create an image that looks good on every 90° angle.

Canvas Size - Exactly 100x100px.
Colors - Max 24.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Required (but only 4 frames of the same image rotated by 0°, 90°, 180° and 270°, with each frame duration 1000ms).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mbNrTV2hGk

The winners are сardo de comer, velvetChaika and JamesTDG. The theme of the next challenge is The Stone Age and the dawn of humanity. It will run until March 15.

What to draw:

Hunter-gatherer tribes, similar to those still found deep in Africa, Indonesia, Siberia, and North and South America;
Their art: outfits, tattoos, war paint, shamanic accessories, and ritual masks;
Sacred structures: stone dolmens and megaliths, and wooden totem poles.

The link to the canvas: https://maetheria.com

This week we are having a portrait challenge.

Recreate the face of someone who just accidentally flash-photographed themselves.
 

Canvas Size - Exactly 90x160 vertical.
Colors - Max 16.
Transparency - No.
Animation - No.

Don't forget to comment on the pieces you like!  Not only does a comment have the potential to make the artist's day, if you post a lot you'll win one of the fancy new trophies!

 

 

February top commenter awards go to:
 

1. QueenKami
2.   Tipleloop
3.   gawrone

And February most favourited award goes to:
kumori