CHALLENGE: All in One Canvas

Create an image using the colours of Germany's flag + a maximum of three other colours of your choice. It can be any subject matter and does not have to relate to Germany or The World Cup.

Canvas Size - Exactly 200 (width) x 120 (height).
Colours - Max 6. Must at least include the colours #000000, #FF0000, #FFCC00 as shown below:



Transparency - No.
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 All in One Canvas 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!

Thought I'd get in on the fun.

I was going to do a German eagle, but why just do (my most hated) feathers when I can throw flames into the mix


Can any of you pallete gurus advise on what other colours to introduce should I be looking for AA colours between yellow  and black and red and black? is the white too white? Ignore the grey this was just my background colour.



@ Mandrill thanks for the advice was going to go for a reddish brown, but didn't think of purple.

Falmes are hard and I'm not liking how it's coming out, perhaps I should have tried something more stylised? Anyhoo must crack on


Edited by felchqueen - 15 July 2014 at 3:22am

hahahaha

So uh, here's my bad  attempt at doing a piece for a challenge (for the first time ever):

@AshCrimson, you can have 3 more colours so you could look to AA this piece, also the text could be embellished a little. the M and sharp S or whatever it's called (SS in Fussball) could be improved.

Edit: Doh just zoomed in and can see that you have got the other colours in there.


Edited by felchqueen - 14 July 2014 at 7:39am

Me thinks, this is below your skill and capabilities both in technique and design :/

Great, because if not I'll send it back for revision...most likely

Current wip, pretty messy right now.


Update1:


Update2:


Update3:


Update4(final):


Edited by Meapers - 14 July 2014 at 4:30pm

Canvas Size - Exactly 200 (width) x 120 (height)
You have 100 height.

wiP

I am doing a german history mural. Going to be a sh*t ton of work to get this done in a week.

Early WIP of anti-MacDonalds propaganda.

Sort of going for a metal look. He's got a panpipe-guitar. I think it needs something, but I can't figure out what.    These limited color palettes drive me nuts, because my impulse is always to add more colors for AA and such.

Final(?):


EDIT?:
Geez I can do a lot better :T What am I thinking... Are we allowed to enter more than one piece?

Edited by Rydido - 17 July 2014 at 4:08pm

I gave in and went full QotSA, got really far on the truck on my lunchbreak at work using my phone, got home and realised the perspective was miles off so had to redo it.

Use secondary light on the BG rocks to soften and make less prominent?

WIP here:

well you still have some colors to use, maybe add aa with them?

Mmmm almost there any suggestions for the background I was going to do a trail as if it was coming from the sun, but I couldn't get it to work. Any other crits warmly received.



It looks horribly overdone, a more subtle effect probably would look much better but as I don't know what that effect is, this'll have to do.


Edited by felchqueen - 16 July 2014 at 7:03am

@Superturnip, thanks for your response, I absolutely agree, my problem is I'm unsure how to communicate this via the medium of pixels.

I think this is in part due to my uselesness with colour, as you can see I've only introduced an orange, to avoid dithering.

Also how do you give form using light and dark to an object that itself is all illuminated

I will heed your advice though and try a rework. Thank you.

Not a very strong entry, more just an experiment with wide pixels (and in ONLY using the three colors provided).
Ref:
http://hqscreen.com/wallpapers/l/1920x1080/52/sterling_archer_tv_lana_kane_1920x1080_51769.jpg

Any suggestions on improving the quality? Not super proud of it, but I am stubborn and want to keep the wide pixels and the three-color limitation.

Edit: should NOT have embedded that image, pfft

Edited by Pheno - 17 July 2014 at 11:50am

Here's a new version, better? Still trying out different things for the flames are any bits 'working' for people?

pixeling feathers until i fall asleep..


@SuperTurnip:
looks great! i'd suggest adding some sort of topdown-perspective background.. walls or something, to frame it.


Edited by tomic - 18 July 2014 at 4:48pm

This is what iv'e been working on for my second entry, changed it around a lot, still not sure about it. Any ideas for improving it?

First thing I've made on PJ. o=