Winners of the June art contest

Seriously, you guys did not monkey around this time! 🙈

We thought our prompt for the June art contest would throw a monkey wrench at you, but you took it and made it your own. The prompt was to illustrate a single scene from a story about a cheeky monkey and hungry gator 🐒🐊

We got 114 entries this time, our second most ever! A big thank you to all who submitted, we are blown away with your creativity ✨ It’s so cool to see how different artists approach the same assignment!

Our judges narrowed the entries down to the top 16, then the audience voted for the winning picks during Critique Arena, our monthly live event for members.

You can get all the juicy details in the recording of the event, which will be released soon. But in the meantime here are the two winning entries:

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Winner! Art by Miranda Hoover.

Winner! Art by Frank Sandoval.

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And here are the rest of the entries that made the top 16 (it was so hard to decide!😅):

Mary Toth (Copy)

Dave Leek (Copy)

Josh White (Copy)

Lindsey Anderson (Copy)

Anna Bishop (Copy)

Maiia McNichol (Copy)

Melanie Ortins (Copy)

Kristin Dudish (Copy)

Carrie-Anne Brown (Copy)

Norman Morana (Copy)

Kevin Longueil (Copy)

Marek Halko (Copy)

Gavin Partridge (Copy)

Caroline Bautista (Copy)

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A big thank you to all who entered the contest this month, you get the seal of approval!

Seal of approval! GIF from Giphy.

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Be sure to enter our July art contest for a chance to win a live art critique ✨

See you next time in the arena…the Critique Arena!