The Results: Mini Challenge #6

Congratulations to Dean Fortune, winner of Mini Challenge #6! The judges were impressed by Dean's creative approach: not only are the illustrations beautiful, but the intersecting semi-transparent canvases create a uniquely immersive coloring experience. Check out Dean's paper model of the 3D coloring book.

The Judges

A big thank you to Kamila Stankiewicz and Anastasia Su, the judges for Mini Challenge #6! They are both prolific artists highly experienced in traditional and digital media. They loved exploring the reimagined coloring books and were very impressed with the range of styles and innovative approaches everyone took.

Kamila Stankiewicz

@St.Kamila is an illustrator who is particularly skilled in new digital media. She uses Mental Canvas to turn her traditional drawings into immersive spatial scenes. She is a pioneer in reimagining the classic coloring book in 3D with Mental Canvas, and her 3D coloring book inspired this Mini Challenge (see below).

Anastasia Su

@Blanchiame is an illustrator whose work in both traditional and digital art drew her to Mental Canvas. She specializes in animals, characters and fairy tales. Her signature style lends itself well to the coloring book challenge where she brings her experience in illustration and digital media.

More to Explore

Here are some more fantastic coloring books that stood out to the judges. With a limited number of canvases and colors, everyone found creative ways to reimagine the coloring book in their unique style. Thank you to everyone who participated, you never fail to amaze us and we can't wait to see more.

Bianca Homillada

Shaun Lee

Snow W.

Jerlyn Thomas

The Brief: Create your own Coloring Book

This mini challenge has now closed. Here was the original brief:
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‍Kamila Stankiewicz is a pioneer in reimagining the classic coloring book in 3D with Mental Canvas. Kamila’s beautifully illustrated 3D coloring book takes coloring to a whole new dimension and inspired this week’s mini challenge: create your own 3D coloring book!
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We’re partnering with Kamila on this mini challenge: she’ll be keeping an eye on social media and chiming in throughout the week. The winner will receive a $250 prize.

The Rules:
This challenge is all about creativity within constraints:

Use a Maximum of 6 Canvases per coloring book
Lineart in black and white
Within each canvas, there should be 3 layers: a lineart layer, a coloring layer and an optional fill layer underneath (like Kamila’s)

‍How to enter:
To enter this mini challenge, you must submit within the Mental Canvas Draw app as well as on social media:
1. Create your 3D Coloring book!
2. Submit your coloring book in the Mental Canvas Draw app:

You should see “submit to the challenge” in the main menu which will take you through the steps to submit.
You can submit up to 6 files
Be sure you’re registered to be able to submit

‍3. Post a video on social media:

Your post can show either the original lineart or a colored-in version
Post on Instagram, Linkedin, TikTok, Facebook or Twitter on a public profile
Show us you’re using Mental Canvas by including the logo in either the watermark or the app interface
Include two hashtags #ReimagineDrawingChallenge and #MiniChallenge6 and tag Mental Canvas

Submit (both in the app and on social media) by midnight ET on Thursday October 7th. We can’t wait to see what you create!
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All rules and eligibility requirements of the $100K Reimagine Drawing Challenge apply. Go to the FAQ page to learn more.

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