As we discussed elsewhere. I figured it would be good to bring one more mod into the community, preferably somewhere in the American time zones.
I'm usually pretty active but if there's one thing I learned it's that you should never make yourself indispensable. The other mods in the list haven't been active here for some time, though M0oP0o indicated he'll be back in a month or so.

Basically what I'm looking for is someone who is active in this community, likes to help along with the challenges when necessary, and can react to the occasional report.
Experience is not a requirement, this is a relaxed community and it doesn't require a lot of your time.

So, let me know if you're interested below. I'll consider anyone who has a solid history of posting in this community.

Not exactly how I wanted it to turn out, but good enough I guess..

Family summer vacations, at least my dad had a good time :)

Not pictured: my mom and little brother lagging even further behind.

VOTING HAS STARTED

You can now vote for this week's challenge!

• Voting will be open for at least 24 hours.
• Whichever entry gets the most votes, wins!
• OP will cast deciding vote in case of tie
• Voting will end when OP declares a winner.

Prompt: 2d illustration, low angle, A girl holding up an umbrella, wearing rain boots, looking at the camera with wide surprised eyes, around her hundreds of frogs are falling from the sky, it’s raining frogs in a storm --ar 4:3 --v 6.1

Theme

Oh no, the gods are real and they are pissed!
Every single god that has ever existed has suddenly decided to take action and is busy with smiting and casting plagues for whatever petty reason they can think of.
This week's challenge is for you to create your own vision of whatever mean, silly or ironic punishment a god might inflict on the world below.
Choose a god (or make up one of your own) and decide on a fitting form of divine punishment for whatever reason you can think of. From the classical swarms of locusts, to the weirdly specific finding-mice-in-your-mustache-if-your-name-is-Alan kind of curses.
Gods are petty and pretty much take offense to anything :)

Format

This challenge will follow a slightly different format. Everyone can submit their image to this post. At the end of the week all images will be collected and shared in a new voting post wherein people can vote on their favorite image. This will be up for at least 24 hours before a winner is made.
There are no extra points to be earned, OP will decide on a winner in case of a tie.

I hope this format will give everyone the opportunity to take their time and have an equal chance at earning votes.
It can be a one-off if this turns out to be too time consuming or impractical.

Rules

• Follow the community’s rules above all else
• One comment and image per user
• Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
• Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged but not required (we’re all here for fun and learning)
• OP will declare winner in case of a tie
• The challenge runs for at least 7 days from now on
• Down votes will not be counted
• Voting and final scoring will be done in a separate post.

Scores

At the end of the challenge the image with the most votes, wins!
It's that simple this time :)

The winner gets to pick the next theme. As always, have fun everyone!
Previous entries

It's so hard to think of something exotic, what's exotic to me is dead normal to someone else.
In the end I decided orchids are exotic to me, and I always want to try and draw one.. so there :)

I love the expression on his face :)

The Utrecht painter Johannes Moreelse worked for a few years in Rome, where he was influenced by the paintings of Caravaggio. He painted scenes in the style of Caravaggio, with unidealised half-length figures and big contrasts between light and dark.

The grinning man in this painting represents Democritus, the laughing philosopher. He is laughing at the vanity of mankind and the transience of the world. Democritus forms a pair with Heraclitus, the weeping philosopher. Moreelse made several versions of the two philosophers.

Museum info:
https://www.mauritshuis.nl/en/our-collection/artworks/705-democritus-the-laughing-philosopher/

Thought I’d try to make a map.
It’s a lot more work than I anticipated :)

I don't have a lot of time, or skill.
So unfortunately this is as good as you can expect from me :)

But I'll try to stick with it.