It's time to publish my entry for Pay It Forward Curation Contest - Week 30.
Yep!!! 30 Weeks already, in this contest hosted by 
Hive account@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, 
Hive account@alkor and 
Hive account@francisftlp.
Here's the preview of their latest artworks:
Alexander Korolev is an artist from Tver Oblast (Russia) who joined the Steem Network on April, 2018.
Hive account@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!
Francis Torres is a Venezuelan artist who joined SteemIt on January 2018.
Hive account@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 Hive account@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 
Hive account@elegance platform. His reputation of 47 also seem a bit low to me, considering Alexander has been publishing excellent works, for so long.
Hive account@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 Hive account@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 Hive account@alkor and Hive account@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
Hive account@lesploratore, 
Hive account@natashamoscow & 
Hive account@cebuvibes
- Week 5, featuring
Hive account@sscrow, 
Hive account@nikonat & 
Hive account@alcidsmujica
- Week 6, featuring
Hive account@neliacordeiro, 
Hive account@anomt & 
Hive account@gonzeto
- Week 7, featuring
Hive account@aleisandel, 
Hive account@sentanu74 & 
Hive account@kothy
- Week 8, featuring
Hive account@maryspace, 
Hive account@timmolloy & 
Hive account@viking-ventures
- Week 9, featuring
Hive account@permanayogi, 
Hive account@teafp & 
Hive account@dustsweeper
- Week 10, featuring
Hive account@abrahmatan & 
Hive account@itsdatneighbour
- Week 11, featuring
Hive account@wgustaman & 
Hive account@blue-dragon
- Week 12, featuring
Hive account@skinlovekin04 & 
Hive account@chriscomics
- Week 14, featuring
Hive account@stahlberg & 
Hive account@daio
- Week 15, featuring
Hive account@drowkeudrow & 
Hive account@christianyocte
- Week 16, featuring
Hive account@escfrancis & 
Hive account@marzukie
- Week 17, featuring
Hive account@artbynadine & 
Hive account@unyimeetuk
- Week 18, featuring
Hive account@marya77 & 
Hive account@lady-idra
- Week 19, featuring
Hive account@michellebonaroti and 
Hive account@connor-russo
- Week 20, featuring
Hive account@maya525 and 
Hive account@stuffing
- Week 21, featuring
Hive account@kryptik.tigrrr3d, 
Hive account@rebeca.just20 and 
Hive account@papersmell
- Week 22, featuring
Hive account@vesteban and 
Hive account@haiyentree
- Week 23, featuring
Hive account@adelair and 
Hive account@edanya
- Week 24, featuring
Hive account@mushroomdreams and 
Hive account@sweettais
- Week 25, featuring
Hive account@jeremyrfk and 
Hive account@armandosodano
- Week 27, featuring
Hive account@spi.der and 
Hive account@maysi-art
- Week 28, featuring
Hive account@hedenus and 
Hive account@helenelenoble
- Week 29, featuring
Hive account@marcocosta and Hive account@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 Hive account@alkor and Hive account@francisftlp with a few upvotes, follows, resteems, comments. Whatever you can do. 😉
Hive account@trincowski signing out.
