CHALLENGE: Seeing Diamonds

Create an image within the diamond shaped canvas below.

Canvas Size - Use template:

Colours - Max 13.
Transparency - Required. Use only outside the template.
Animation - Optional.

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CHALLENGE RULES

• Participants have until this upcoming Sunday at midnight (12AM Pacific) to submit their entry (strict). Don't forget to check the 'Submit to weekly challenge' checkbox.
• Only new pixels allowed.
• Open to all members.
• Posting WIPs in this thread or in new threads in the WIP section is highly encouraged, but ONLY SUBMIT YOUR FINAL ART.

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CHALLENGE JUDGING

• Every Sunday at midnight (12AM Pacific) the previous week's entries are judged.
• Every week a new voting poll will be posted for previous week's entries.
• Winner announced the following week.

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CHALLENGE PRIZES/GOODIES

• Top three finishers will receive an award displayed in your PJ gallery profile for all to see and envy.
• Top finisher gets to call the following week's challenge...sweet.
• 'Participation' ribbons will be given for all who enter.
• No matter what happens you get challenged :)

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CHALLENGE VOTING

Vote now for your favorite pixelart in this week's challenge!

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CHALLENGE AWARDS

The Seeing Diamonds pixel art challenge is complete and we have three new champions. This week's challenge awards go to the following pieces:



Thanks so much to all who took the time to vote and participate in the challenge!

A random portrait WIP for practicing lighting and portraits in general.



I've been pretty much inactive these last few months, heh :/

Edited by Mrmo Tarius - 27 February 2012 at 5:18am

 I think I am gonna post both of them

Already great WIPs!

Add something in background? :)

???

this is my first entry, I am new to this... what do you guys think?

whoa, totally forgot that the 13th 'color' must be transparency :/
Oh well, here's a more or less finished portrait:

@Voltali obscur: Cool idea... Some diamonds maybe in the back.
@mrmo:  superb as usual!
@Nevercreature: it's crowded in here, nice.
@9_6: 3 colors=9-6, and wow!

When seeing the theme i wanted to join in and try to make a boulderdash remix. So i'm currently working with 8x8 tiles, here's a small preview. I'll try to have the diamonds glow on the surrounding tiles... The layout is same as level 3 on the commodore 64.
(http://www.boulder-dash.nl/down/maps/PeterLiepa/BoulderDash01.html)



Edited by baah - 02 March 2012 at 10:32am

My first attempt using diamond (cross) pixels and using 4 colours:


I used this template:


Kind of really bad. Can anyone even mildly recognize what is portrayed?

Honestly I'm not even going to submit it because it's horrible.

@orange08 - Your idea of diamond pixels is way better, may give that a go instead.

My 2nd entry seems about done now... any suggestions/critiques?


Edited by orange08 - 28 February 2012 at 11:58am

yes

Well here's something.

I struggled with the rocks, namely giving them a good texture and getting depth between the foreground and background ones. The whole thing is a little flat, actually. I think I'll try again :| How might I improve this one?

Oh and I used this palette, with a few colors omitted to fit the challenge: http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12795

 

@cure - Well at least it was partially readable then. =|

Gave up on the diamonds though:



Hair is unfinished and I haven't touched the BG but added some AA because the jaggies were pissing me off even though I know I still had to fill in that area. =D


@Voltali obscur@ - I honestly don't like the weird rock texture as it kills the depth of the image.

@Graindolium - Add some damn purple in there man!

@Mrmo Tarius@ - Damn that's awesome!

@iMoose - Removes i from name... I mean... rocks generally look better when they don't feel smooth. Imagine them made up of flat surfaces.

Think I will call this done now:



Unless anyone has any critique?

I can't see any difference whatsoever :0

So what happens if I edit my submission?

  iMoose  , AAAH that beauty !!  
better than all the crap of shi_t previous !

I don't like it very much. But this is another "diamond" I've done.

Thought I give it a try, thats what i came up with.

@tanuki: yeah, I know, so I just chose the pj default gray. It started out as a square manhole-ish thing so the gray border would be where the cover would fit. Then I thought it might be fun if it looked like the pic was outside the diamond. Kinda like an easter egg :P

@iMoose: looks lovely!


Edited by offwhite - 29 February 2012 at 3:06pm

How can I quickly check if this has 13 colours?

14 colours.

Damnit.

Should be 13 now.


Looks less nice unfortunately.