Depending on where you live, it's the start of winter this week. So for this challenge you are asked to create an icy or snow-covered scene. You may include characters and/or creatures too if you so wish.
Optional Bonus Challenge: Can you do it without using any white?
Canvas Size - Exactly 160 (width) x 90 (height).
Colours - Max 25.
Transparency - No.
Animation - No.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Totally just for the relative season, it's nearly summer (afther exam's) !
Without any white, it's like radioactive green snow ? Is a very luminous blue white ? :D
There wil be interresting things !
Oh how I wish it were winter here
:(
The small canvases make it tempting for me to compete, but I dont know if I'll have the time for it anyway. Winter rocks.
Looks like more Drôme mountains from me. Or else.
True, yet the same result could be reached by just allowing any canvas.:
Not so true, as many pple esp newbies tend to go for far too large canvasses.
Edit: jal, that's what I mean, more nicely said. 
Be careful what you ask for. When not kept small those huge-assed weak cell-shaded entries flood the gallery like a lil'dude plague.
Wasn't meant as a complaint, it's just something I noticed the last few weeks ;) And it's a pity, since there used to be some fantastic entries with large canvas,
@ Adarias
"more managable sizes = more participation."
True, yet the same result could be reached by just allowing any canvas.
pixeljoint needs a "like" button!
totally agree @canvas at all challenges...
@Badassbill: I know you'll probably hate this answer; but, in this context, white means whatever you want it to mean. What I want to do with these "optional bonus challenges" is provide additional prompts for people who might want to take things above and beyond; an extra layer of challenge that works as a subset of the challenge as a whole.
In this case, I could have easily said white = #ffffff. But I don't believe that is necessary, as this is more of an additional creativity prompt and not a strict requirement. Maybe someone might think "Aha! white - #ffffff, alright, I'll use #fefefe instead!"; but perhaps you might think "Hmm, white, what does that mean to me? Anything over 95 LUM...ok that's how I'll approach this".
So, basically: optional bonus challenges - nebulous on purpose. It's just something extra to consider (as long as it fits the restrictions of the main challenge, of course).
@Perkele - I promise that next week's challenge won't have a small canvas size.
my guess, more managable sizes = more participation. 160x90 for a scene though is exceptionally small, you'd need 4 of those to make up a regular handheld screen.
I think the use of 'white' just means pixel your scene and try not to depend on whites (all of them) too much, ya noes. Like explore blues, lavenders, etc.
I wish be in the southern hemisphere in this moment, I hate the summer on the other hand I love the winter and the cold places. This time I think I will participate :)
Yes, define white, If you talk about pure white, I can use #fefefe why this is not exactly white.
Define white. Are we talking pure 100 LUM or just anything over 95? Elaborate please.
2 weeks for summer in my country ( Spain ) Well, in Europe
Most of the people here would most likely to be living in the northern hemisphere. :c
Pffft. Get a decent hemisphere ;)
I also didn't read the "optional" part of "optional bonus challenge"
hello it's nearly summer time in Europe ! The "depending where you live" should be in bold capitals 
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I'm tempted to try an anti-bonus rule, with an "all-white" image : a landscape smothered in snow where only some (often unconnected) non-white areas help your mind "fill the blanks". It's the kind of technique I've first seen in Calvin&Hobbes comics. The negative version (mostly black) is used throughout Sin City.