CHALLENGE: Tetris Avatar

Chain of Challenges, episode 13.

We are still making avatar portraits, but the topic this time is open. It still needs to pass as a head, so humanoids, animals, robots, and monsters do count, of course, but a cabbage head will count too, or a house with two windows instead of eyes. Anything you will convincingly pass as an avatar portrait, which includes a "head" in any possible way, will be accepted. The limitation this time is technical, and it will be a hard one, so brace yourselves, pixel challengers.

All your clusters have to be built with 4 pixels and in the shape of a tetris piece. The list of different shapes is as follows: O-shape, I-shape, L-shape, J-shape, S-shape, Z-shape, and T-shape. They can be used in any possible rotation. You can use any shape as many times as you wish. You cannot place the same coloured pieces next to each other; in other words, no two same-colour pieces are allowed to touch directly. You can connect the same-shaped pieces when they are different colours, of course.

There are two exclusions to the rules above.

1) Pieces are allowed to be cut by the border. Every piece that doesn't touch the border of the canvas have to be 4 pixels and tetris shape, but pieces which do touch the canvas, may be smaller if necessary. That means 4, 3, 2, or even 1 pixel shapes can touch the border.

2) It is forbidden to use the O-shape tetris only to make the whole image. It would require just making a half-size image and doubling the size, which would be cheesing the challenge. But if you desire to limit yourself by using only I-shape pieces vertically or horizontally, or only T-shape pieces in different rotations, or any other reductive combination, you are allowed to do so. Using all of the shapes might be the most challenging, but it is not a requirement.

Because the challenge here is mostly focused on something other than palette control, the colour limit will be set to 32. Please try as much as you can to avoid almost indistinguishable colours.
 

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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 suggest a future week's challenge. If you're a winner and you wish to submit your idea, send a message to Gecimen.
• '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 Tetris Avatar 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!