Challenge Yourself!

ArtStation challenges are now bigger than ever, offering a great chance to push yourself and maybe even impress your future boss!

Who can remember the online art forum challenges of old? The weekly, or daily, art briefs that gave burgeoning artists fantastical (sometimes farcical!) themes to fire up the imagination, and the motivation to regularly create art. They were fun, and spoke of a community of artists exploring the possibilities of sci-fi and fantasy art together, spurred on by positive crits and passionate admins.

Nowadays, online art challenges have grown up, along with the artists who used to enter them. ArtStation is at the forefront of these exciting changes and is partnering with legendary institutions such as ILM, gathering unprecedented numbers of entries of exceptional quality. ArtStation co-founder Leo Teo, who pushed online contests a decade ago with CG Challenges, ditched forums for bespoke platforms. Now positive crits still exist, but they’re more likely to come from an art director of one of your favourite films than an enthusiastic admin. Yesterday’s prizes of community kudos have been replaced with the potential of getting your foot in the door to your dream job.