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[Eliit @Eliit_One]

JPEG Frens study: Watercolor edition. @wearejpegfrens

[Edizkan ⭕🦇 @edizkan_]

Prompt Share 🚨

Character study, watercolor edition. 🎨
@akidcalledbeast

Prompt 👇

Create an authentic watercolor artist’s study sheet of the uploaded reference character, photographed from directly above on a real working desk.
Likeness Integrity

Preserve the character’s exact identity: proportions, head shape, eye shape and spacing, facial structure, silhouette, clothing, accessories, materials, and original color relationships. Do not humanize or redesign the character. Translate the character into watercolor while keeping it instantly recognizable.
Main Painting

At the center of a large sheet of thick, slightly textured watercolor paper is a loose hand-painted portrait of the character, primarily showing the head, shoulders, and upper torso.
The watercolor should feel genuinely handmade and exploratory:
transparent layered washes
visible pigment blooms and water edges
areas where paint bleeds naturally into neighboring colors
dry-brush marks
occasional exposed white paper
subtle pencil construction lines still visible underneath
some sections carefully resolved while others remain unfinished
irregular edges rather than a digitally perfect silhouette
Preserve the character’s original palette, translating each color into believable watercolor pigment mixtures rather than replacing it with a generic watercolor palette.
Artist Study Elements

Surround the portrait with small experimental paint swatches derived from the character’s exact colors. Add handwritten artist notes, arrows, circles, mixture tests, dilution experiments, and tiny color studies around the page.
The notes should feel spontaneous and functional, discussing ideas such as:
“BASE COLOR”
“SHADOW MIX”
“MORE WATER”
“LESS PIGMENT”
“SECOND WASH”
“EDGE TEST”
Keep the writing sparse and imperfect, like genuine pencil notes made during painting rather than graphic-design typography.
Place several real watercolor paint tubes matching the character’s palette directly on top of the paper, with subtle dents and traces of dried paint around their caps. Include one well-used watercolor brush lying diagonally across the sheet, its bristles stained with one of the character’s dominant colors.
A few accidental paint droplets, faint water stains, test strokes, and pigment marks should appear naturally around the study.
Camera & Composition

Top-down documentary photography, approximately 35–50mm equivalent. The paper fills most of the frame but is slightly rotated rather than perfectly aligned. Crop a few art materials naturally at the frame edges.
The central portrait sits slightly off-center, with color experiments and physical tools creating an asymmetrical working composition.
Lighting & Texture

Soft directional daylight from one side, revealing the tooth of the watercolor paper, raised paint deposits, metallic paint tubes, brush hairs, pencil graphite, and subtle shadows cast by the physical objects.
Primary focal plane on the painted face and nearby brush. Paper edges and peripheral tools gradually soften slightly.
Mini Toy Reference, Bonus Element
Include a small collectible toy version of the uploaded character lying casually on the watercolor paper near one lower corner of the composition.

The miniature must preserve the character’s exact proportions, eye shape, silhouette, colors, materials, clothing, and accessories. It should look like a premium physical figurine of the same character, not a redesigned chibi version.

Pose it naturally on its back or slightly rolled onto one side, as if the artist placed it down while working. One limb may rest loosely across the paper, creating a subtle overlap with nearby color swatches or handwritten notes.

Keep the toy secondary in scale, approximately 10–15% of the composition, small enough that the watercolor portrait remains dominant.

Soft directional daylight should cast a believable miniature shadow beneath the toy. The closest parts of the figurine can be moderately sharp, while portions farther from the main focal plane soften slightly with the shallow depth of field.
The result should feel like a real photograph of an artist developing the character’s color language by hand, intimate, tactile, imperfect, and still visibly in progress. No clean digital illustration, no perfectly filled shapes, no polished poster layout, no sterile studio presentation.
ar 5:4

[Eliit @Eliit_One]

Most collections are finalized at mint, but for @wearejpegfrens that was only the beginning. Ever‑evolving, always current, visually elite, and defined by its holders.

[Eliit @Eliit_One]

Most collections are finalized at mint, but for @wearejpegfrens that was only the beginning. Ever‑evolving, always current, visually elite, and defined by its holders.

[Eliit @Eliit_One]

@OsayKancuno @wearejpegfrens

[Vector ☠️ @VectorMeldrew]

Died on night 37 but luckily had picked up a Winged Pill to revive myself. Hit a massive Rip by dumping a load of Chlorofeel in the Car Park and made off with 18 million. Imagine having a day job.

[𝕂𝟜ℕℂ𝕌ℕ𝟘 🔳 @OsayKancuno]

JPEG Frens mini-series

FRENS AFTER DARK

Ep. 2
"Sleep Is for the Exit Liquidity"

[𝕂𝟜ℕℂ𝕌ℕ𝟘 🔳 @OsayKancuno]

JPEG Frens mini-series

FRENS AFTER DARK

Ep. 1
"Sheet Happens"

[Eliit @Eliit_One]

@wearejpegfrens Love the fun and unique collecting / customization loop ❤️‍🔥

[Jpeg Frens @wearejpegfrens]

YOUR FRENS HAVE A WHOLE NEW ADVENTURE AHEAD OF THEM. 🔧

You know that feeling when you find a Fren with just the right look?

The Workshop gives you more ways to build that connection. New traits, limited packs, and art collabs. New looks for the Frens.

And it brings a new dimension to collecting JPEG Frens.

⚙️ COLLECT WITH A LOOK IN MIND
A Native, an Alien, a Zombie. Different drops support different Fren types. That character you’ve been hunting could be the perfect fit for a future pack.
⚙️ PUT YOUR SPECIALS TO WORK
Rare, Legendary, and Grail Frens unlock priority access to corresponding limited drops.
⚙️ BRING OTHER WORLDS INTO OURS
Each collab brings another artist’s style and another community into JPEG Frens. Starting with Normies.
⚙️ MAKE YOUR COLLECTION MORE YOURS
Choose the Fren. Find the pack. Build the look. Give your favorites another reason to stay your favorites.

The Leaderboard, Burn & Forge, and Workshop all feed into this.
Collect Frens➡️Climb the ranks➡️ Burn to forge Specials➡️ Use those Specials for priority access➡️Customize your Base Frens.

And to reward small holders and onboard new Frens, there are special traits that will be claimable FCFS regardless of the number of Frens one holds.
The best time to become a Fren is always, second best time is now.

More reasons to collect, decisions to obsess over, and new possibilities every time the Workshop doors open.

See you on the other side. 🔧

[Eliit @Eliit_One]

@drga1nz @wearejpegfrens

[Eliit @Eliit_One]

Everybody needs a fren in their life @wearejpegfrens

[Rwuenas @rwuenas]

Got Frens spread across a hot wallet and a vault? You can now see them together.

Open Manage wallets, add your addresses, give them names and select All wallets.

Your rankings will use the combined collection. You can still switch to any wallet individually.

[Democritus @Democritu_s]

@freedznft @wearejpegfrens @Richi0118 After a long time in crypto , we finally have a professional team whose work we're all genuinely enjoying 😀
Rest assured, we'll be right here supporting you along the way . Thank you 🤍

[Eliit @Eliit_One]

Everybody needs a fren in their life @wearejpegfrens

[𝕂𝟜ℕℂ𝕌ℕ𝟘 🔳 @OsayKancuno]

Everybody needs a fren in their life 🫂🤝

[John Karp - @NFCsummit mode until 27 May 27 @johnkarp]

they are the 2 favorites NFC collections of NFC people and they make this amazing collab!
Congrat @wearejpegfrens @normiesART !!!! Can't wait to experience the workshop!!!!

[Eliit @Eliit_One]

@Richi0118 @wearejpegfrens @normiesART The sky's the limit!

[Mr Richi @Richi0118]

Beauty of @wearejpegfrens is that so many doors are left open to make anything imaginable.

Beauty of Workshop is that it has the ability to absorb all the ideas and connect different worlds together through art.

The first collab we start is with @normiesART

We start with new limited traits for Natives, Aliens, and Zombies.

JPEG Frens are about to change. Again.

[Eliit @Eliit_One]

@freedznft @wearejpegfrens @Richi0118 LFG! 🔥🔥

[FREEDZ @freedznft]

The FREEDZ Vault keeps growing.

We've swept 20 JPEG Frens, with something planned for the FREEDZ community. 👀

Much love to the @wearejpegfrens community and respect to @Richi0118 for being such a great artist and builder. 🟥

[Jpeg Frens @wearejpegfrens]

Which Frens are going @normiesART on November 13? 👀

Natives get the Rare packs.
Aliens get the Legendary packs.
Zombies get the Grail packs.

Each pack was designed for its own Fren type.
Before the Workshop opens, take a look in your wallet. You might already have the Fren you’d send in for a makeover in the Workshop.
Or you might not?

📸 Eligibility snapshot — November 11 at 6pm CET.
Full claim, supply and eligibility details are coming this week.

Natives, Aliens, or Zombies — which crew will wear it best?