Summer Festival 2021

Persona | Masquerade party | The Spirit of Collaboration | Lynette

In summer 2021 there was a Summer Festival (Instagram-Link) with prices going on. There were 9 general art prompts and 4 bi-weekly art prompt challenges. Paintings referring to the general art prompts could be submitted any time before the end of the festival, the bi-weekly prompts had to be submitted within two weeks, ready for the showcases where they were presented.

Myself, I participated in the four main challenge prompts and in six of the general prompts until the Festival ended. In the end I made third place (there was a price, happy me!) and I am quite happy that I were able to do so many entries whereas before all of this started I even wasn’t sure if I would be able to participate at all.

Digital Painting, chibi style: An emote of Crissy Faith (short purple hair, big round glasses, a pocket watch attached to her jacket), laughing happily

Bi-weekly art prompts (Main challenges)

1) Persona
2) Masquerade party
3) The Spirit of Collaboration
4) Lynette

1) Paint a persona, its occupation has to be shown but it does not have to resemble yourself in real life

I got inspired by the character Lucca of the video game „Chrono Trigger“ and created Crissy Faith. She is a steam engine mechanic who is familiar with everything that ticks, rotates, steams and moves. She is dedicated to keep things running – mechanical things, that is, she doesn’t have quite a grasp of how human(oids) work but she loves the fish cocktails and mango pizzas available in Arcryla City.

This is my original entry, the second one it’s her without the helmet.

Character sheet of a young woman, digital painting, comic style on light "paper": She has got short purple hair and is wearing big round glasses. She is also wearing a leather coat, leather boots, yellow and black striped trousers, belts and a brown (leathery) safety helmet with gadgets, in the right hand she is holding a driller like tool, in the left hand an adjustable screw wrench, the background is a diffuse grey cloud encompassing her silhouette, on the ground letters are forming the word "Arcryla City". There are background information on the sheet: Cetre: Crissy Faith - Steam Engine Mechanic; to the right: Safety helmet with handy gadgets: Antenna, Hinged Googles, Ear trumpet; Cross belt with water refill capsules; adjustable screw wrench. One the left: Clockwork and steam driven Multi Tool; Toll belt; Leather coat; Leather boots

Digital painting, comic style on light "paper": A young woman who has got short purple hair and is wearing big round glasses. She is also wearing a leather coat, leather boots, yellow and black striped trousers and belts, in the right hand she is holding a driller like tool, in the left hand an adjustable screw wrench, the background is a diffuse grey cloud encompassing her silhouette

2) Paint your persona preparing for, on the way to or attending the Arcryla City’s Summer Festival Masquerade Party with the condition to use at least two visibly different art mediums/textures.

The Masked Mechanic

Crissy is a person who doesn’t socialize much (or easy), she just doesn’t have quite a grasp of how humans (and humanoids) work. While clockwork runs like … well … clockwork people don’t – they always have unpredictable issues. So, she feels uncomfortable in (non-mechanic) company.

She even had to be talked into actually attending the Arcryla City’s first big social event, the Summer Festival’s Masquerade Party. Normally, she never wears fancy clothes, not to mention dresses, so she had to borrow one and she does not even know why there were this costume and these boots in her closet – though they look suspiciously like the kind a former flatmate would have bought.

Unluckily, the person who talked her into attending the party didn’t show up and so she now stands near the balcony, watching the wonderfully reliable rotating cogwheel outside the building.

Digital painting, comic style: Crissy Faith, a young woman with purple hair, she is wearing a brown feathered owl like mask and a tophat with goggles and likewise feathers attached to it, her dress is of pink and purple colour, though she is wearing a jacket, too, with a purple texture, over her upper body and the hips she is wearing a semi-transparent glittery costume and as footwear dark purple boots with several golden buckles, a pocket watch is dangling from a necklace around her neck in breast height. Crissy is holding a cocktail in her right hand and looking unconfidently to her left, lifting her dress with the left hand to take a step from the balustrade of the balcony she is standing on. To her right and her left are two pillars (on the left one the letters forming "Arcryla City"), golden as the ground and the balustrade are as well, in the background a big cogwheel and steam in front of a night sky with clouds and stars

3) A collaboration project. We where drawn into groupes of twos and had to paint one (or two) paintings showing our personas interacting on the Summer Festivals‘ activities. They also had to have several elements in common. This one is a collab with F1nn (Instagram). We agreed that we can share it here, on Twitter and on Instagram.

Getting bumped

Before Crissy went to the festival, a friend of hers (yes, the same as who didn’t turn up at the Masquerade Party) talked her into going to the tailor with her to get „some more modern clothes“ and ended buying some quite popular ones and with a pony tail in her hair. While waiting to meet her on the festival, Crissy spottet the Bumper Cars and since she already waited a whole hour she decided to investigate them further. She still was admiring all the rotating, steaming and moving parts as another Citizen, Lilo, bumped into hers.

4) Last bi-weekly prompt of the Summer Festival

Lynette

Draw the Mayor’s new assistant on the basis of the information already provided on the Discord server.

Digital painting, comic style, night sky with fireworks as background: A fancy, young woman seen upfront, turning her body as she tosses two rings at the same time over two kegs. She's light brown curly hair bound to a ponytail by a ribbon and wears a tiny deep mauvish crimson tophat, shirt, corset and skirt as well as black, short gloves and a brown coat. There are a neglace and a bracelet with rubin jewelry, too. Up on the sky in bright colours the words "Arcryla City".

General prompts (6 out of 9)

The 8 general prompts are:

1) High Tea
2) Leisure Time
3) Carousel
4) Ring Toss
5) Heirloom
6) Fireworks
7) Fairy Floss
8) Balloons
9) Mayor Alexander

1) High Tea

Finished after the end of the Summer Festival

„High T“

Crissy taking a ride home – she should’ve known better.

This painting is connected to the entry 9) Mayor Alexander:

Digital painting, comic style, the background slightly blurred: The Mayor of Arcryla City wearing a light shirt, a belt, brown pants and gloves, standing in the middle of a wind gust which drives petal through the air, blows off his tophat and lifts his shirt so you can see the abs. He is trying to catch the hat, a violet and a green tent in the background, a light blue afternoon sky with clouds

2) Leisure Time

„Heading into Leisure Time“

Crissy Faith coming home from work. At home she is a little bit chaotic, though.

3) Carousel

„Whirling“

My persona Crissy Faith in her casual dress. She doesn’t socialize much but went to the festivities in a quite hour to appreciate the engines driving the fun. Since „a quite hour“ still means to be quite bustling she took shelter in the back of the big Carousel.

6) Fireworks

This is a collaboration work with hyeonnart (Instagram). Each one of us did their own painting but if you put them next to each other they will become a new painting, a bigger picture (I’ve got permission to share it too):

„Fireworks“

Crissy went to the lake in the park to watch the upcoming fireworks. This time she even did not had to be talked into it. Looking out for a spot aside from the big crowds she met Lynux, a tailor (as she learned to know), and they had a lot of fun.

Digital Painting, comic style: Crissy Faith, a young woman with purple hair and big round glasses, seen from side view, sitting in the grass in front of a lake at nighttime, fireworks in the sky. She is wearing her casual clothes: A blue short legged overall, purple and orange striped leggings, toefree boots, a wrench in her back pocket, a pocket watch attached to her side. Between her and the lake are some rows of rocks, on the other side of the lake trees (in the middle and to the right) and some buildings (to the left), reflecting in the water. In the foreground to the left a piece of paper with the letters "Arcryla City Fireworks Fe...l" (the last word not completely readable).

Digital Painting, comic style: Two paintings laid next to each other becoming a new picture, a bigger one. To the left Crissy Faith, a young woman with purple hair and big round glasses, wearing a blue short legged overall, seen from side view, sitting in the grass in front of a lake with banks of rocks at nighttime, buildings and trees in the background, fireworks in the sky, looking giggling toward the scene of the right painting. There Lynux, a young woman with long brown hair, kneeling at the ground, trying to fire a fireworks rocket, in front of the same see, likewise trees and buildings in the backgroubnd and fireworks in the sky. In the foreground to the left on Crissy's side a piece of paper with the letters "Arcryla City Fireworks Fe...l" (the last word not completely readable) to the right on Lynux' side a sign "Arcryla City Fireworks Festival"

7) Fairy Floss

„Fairy Tales“

Whenever Crissy gets used to the thought to forget about her crush she turns up at unexpected times in unexpected places and does things to raise hope again.

Digital painting, comic style: Crissy Faith, a young woman with short, purple hair and big, round glasses, wearing a brown overall and purple and lavender stripes leggings sitting on a bench with candy floss in her right hand, the her right side, another young woman seen from from the side with short ruffled blue-green hair. She is wearing a deep violette coursage with a plaid pattern over a semitransparent shirt, both bellyfree, a skirt of the same colour and style, three golden chains around her hips and black bracelets and wristband on wrists and neck. Finger nails and toenails are painted with nail polish in the colours of the lesbian pride flag, she is looking to Crissy (who is blushing) and taking a bit of the candy floss with the right hand

8) Balloons

„Chasing Rainbows“

Going on a balloon ride with the person who is able to talk you into literally anything didn’t went as expected for Crissy. She is (slightly) afraid of heights but if your crush suggests to take a ride in this big, colourful balloons, you don’t say „no“.