The winners of 2021!

Well, it’s been yet another crazy year 🤪But despite all of the challenges of 2021, our contenders inspired us all to reach for the stars✨They each created something beautiful and reminded us to hold on to hope. They are truly superstars in our eyes!

We love a good competition, so we thought it would be fun to invite all our previous contest winners from 2021 to battle it out in the Critique Arena. Their prompt was the same as for our November art contest: Star.

Sixteen of the previous winners answered the call. They went head to head during a special edition of our Critique Arena contest, the Critique Arena All Stars. Our judges seeded the contestants, and the audience voted for their favorites. Sixteen battled it out in the arena, but only 3 made the final cut!

You can experience all the drama in the recording of the event, which you can find on our YouTube Channel. But in the meantime here are the Top 3 entries:

1st Place! Art by Norman Morana.

2nd Place! Art by Braden Hallett.

3rd Place! Art by Marek Halko..

And here’s the rest of the best! We are starstruck!🤩

A big thank you to all who took part! You are best of the best!

 

Happy dance! GIF from Giphy.

 

Just a reminder that there is no prompt for December, and therefore there will be no Critique Arena in January.

However! We will be releasing a prompt for January soon! Then you’ll have all of January to work on it, before we convene the next Critique Arena in February. Hope you have a wonderful holiday season!

And see you next year in the arena…the Critique Arena!