My entry to the "Pay It Forward Curation Contest - Week 30"
It's time to publish my entry for Pay It Forward Curation Contest - Week 30.
Yep!!! 30 Weeks already, in this contest hosted by @pifc! And the contest keeps going strong!
The rules of this challenge are very simple: Feature 2 High Quality Original Content Blog Posts from Steemians with a reputation score of 55 or under.
I return to my habit of bringing you two artists I have never featured before, @alkor and @francisftlp.
Here's the preview of their latest artworks:
#1 - @alkor (47)
Alexander Korolev is an artist from Tver Oblast (Russia) who joined the Steem Network on April, 2018.
@alkor has been a very consistent blogger who specialises in realistic portrait drawings, mostly white and grey portraits.
From time to time he presents a colourful portrait drawing, too... and for my entry I've decided not to feature his latest artwork, but a portrait artwork from 3 days ago:
Gentlemen of fortune (drawing) is a magnificent portrait with incredible details.
How cool are these portraits? So expressive and with an excellent use of shadows!
#2 - @francisftlp (53)
Francis Torres is a Venezuelan artist who joined SteemIt on January 2018.
@francisftlp also specialises in portrait drawings, most of them in colour.
I've chosen to feature her Drawing of Will Smith, published yesterday.
Very cool and realistic, don't you think?
# Final Thoughts
At the time I'm writing this, both posts are undervalued, with $0.50 and $0.70 in rewards.
I don't think @alkor's works are getting the rewards they should, as he tends to earn less than $0.50 per post, being that 80% of those rewards are given by the @elegance platform. His reputation of 47 also seem a bit low to me, considering Alexander has been publishing excellent works, for so long.
@francisftlp is doing a little better, my guess is because Francis is interacting a little more with other artists and users, not only in SteemIt but also in Discord.
Both Alexander and Francis are being very consistent and my only suggestion goes to @alkor. Please try to engage a little more with other users on this platform, either by commenting or voting other people's posts more often.
The two of you are making very good posts and I hope you keep motivated to go on.
Please support @alkor and @francisftlp and let 'em know their work is very appreciated!
If you want to join the contest, here's more info about the "Pay It Forward" contest.
My previous participations are here:
- Week 3, featuring @lesploratore, @natashamoscow & @cebuvibes
- Week 5, featuring @sscrow, @nikonat & @alcidsmujica
- Week 6, featuring @neliacordeiro, @anomt & @gonzeto
- Week 7, featuring @aleisandel, @sentanu74 & @kothy
- Week 8, featuring @maryspace, @timmolloy & @viking-ventures
- Week 9, featuring @permanayogi, @teafp & @dustsweeper
- Week 10, featuring @abrahmatan & @itsdatneighbour
- Week 11, featuring @wgustaman & @blue-dragon
- Week 12, featuring @skinlovekin04 & @chriscomics
- Week 14, featuring @stahlberg & @daio
- Week 15, featuring @drowkeudrow & @christianyocte
- Week 16, featuring @escfrancis & @marzukie
- Week 17, featuring @artbynadine & @unyimeetuk
- Week 18, featuring @marya77 & @lady-idra
- Week 19, featuring @michellebonaroti and @connor-russo
- Week 20, featuring @maya525 and @stuffing
- Week 21, featuring @kryptik.tigrrr3d, @rebeca.just20 and @papersmell
- Week 22, featuring @vesteban and @haiyentree
- Week 23, featuring @adelair and @edanya
- Week 24, featuring @mushroomdreams and @sweettais
- Week 25, featuring @jeremyrfk and @armandosodano
- Week 27, featuring @spi.der and @maysi-art
- Week 28, featuring @hedenus and @helenelenoble
- Week 29, featuring @marcocosta and @papersmell
More info about the Pay It Forward Curation Contest - Week 30
Since my rewards start allowing me to give a little more back to the community, I'm making the commitment to buy 2 SBI shares, one for each artist, with the rewards from this post.
Please support @alkor and @francisftlp with a few upvotes, follows, resteems, comments. Whatever you can do. 😉
@trincowski signing out.
Great choices @trincowski... as usual.
Stopping by both artists for my up vote and comment.
Ciao!
Thanks again for your comment and support, @lady-idra.
Thanks for your entry. Both bloggers have been upvoted. Also added a few extra votes to @alkor
Amazing! Thank you very much for that extra help! 😊
Another two great choices, it's amazing the amount of talented artists on the platform!
It really is. And there are many excellent artworks that I don't pick because they just post their work with a single line of text and nothing else... Which disqualifies them for this particular contest. 😉
That's exactly my problem in the photography community! Excellente photos, but no text to go along.
I must say that @alkor really did amazing work with his pencil colour @trincowski 😊 I finally made my round after reaching the gold 2 league on steemmonsters 😂 that's why I can catch up with you to give support! Thanks for those 2 awesome artists and good luck with the banana😅
Thanks, I was always interested in cooking but I am not very good at it. That's a dish that I usually only have at a Chinese Restaurant. 😂
Lol.. @trincowski 😂 me too . Better go to my neighbour Kitchen to get something good or order some from the traveling food seller around😂 I've visited your pics but didn't upvote any..just leaving a comment on it.
Because of the "Low RC" stuff again? Damn. Hang in there. As soon as it's possible, we'll lease some RC to you... I can't lend SP since I'm still at a stage of renting SP myself, though.
😂😂 I think I can handle that RC probs through the time🤣 what a good experience to know how the RC drained just by create 8 comments on a day, thanks for your concern @trincowski.. I think the artists need more support father than me.
Great features as usual. @alkor has had one thing that just stands out. They eyes. We really need to see how to get him more visitors. He is definitely undervalued.
He's been posting so regularly that it's almost certain I'll feature one of his posts on my Art Curation Initiative #2, later tonight. 😃
Thanks for your comment.
#1 - это Хмырь и Косой. Фильм "Джентльмены удачи".
Never heard of it... Thanks for letting me know.
These are old Soviet comedies. Very popular in Russia.
I am very grateful for being selected, I am very lucky and I feel very happy for the great support. It's a wonderful job he's doing, I wish him the best in the contest.
Thank you @trincowski.
You're welcome. You have the skills and that deserves to be recognised.
Steem would be nothing without people like you.
Great great great and art-ty like I know you! I am visiting them now .....
Thank you very much, @brittandjosie!
Thank you for another great entry @trincowski! I really appreciate that you continually find undervalued artists here :)
Let's hope the HF20 doesn't kill the momentum.