CHALLENGE: Smoking Catatar

iLKke challenges you to draw an avatar-sized picture depicting a cat wearing some kind of headgear, with some smoke or steam visible in the picture (for example a smoking pipe, a steaming cup of tea or a bowl of soup).

Optional Bonus Challenge: for using it as your avatar until the challenge results are announced, and for making it available for use by others.

Examples: [1] and [2]

Canvas Size - Exactly 64 x 64.
Colours - Exactly 8.
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 Smoking Catatar 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!



Edited by skamocore - 20 June 2011 at 12:01am

Make sure it's obviously a cat :o

(Also, my avatar is bigger'n yours B) )

can I has updaet?

(more obvious now? it has ears!)

@a3um: awesome. Had a cat just like that one (although not castrated! hehe) :P

also this early wip doodle:


Edited by Mrmo Tarius - 20 June 2011 at 4:13am

Yeah, a tiara/diadem/crown/whatever thingamabob :P

I've reworked the nose a bit, I think it looks more catlike now:


Also, here's Jo the Cat. He was a good cat.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v653/mrmotinjo/macor_fr.jpg

Edited by Mrmo Tarius - 20 June 2011 at 7:37am

Yup, great edit.

Here's what I did (I did not like that one eye too much, so I completely remade it):



Edited by Mrmo Tarius - 20 June 2011 at 11:12am

Yes :)
Good idea, btw.

Submitted mine, it looked ready enough. I've spent too much time on it already ;P

I have three plans, but, do goggles count as head gear?

A helmet and wizard hat seem to obviously count. =)

So I need to get a hat on the cat. I'm having trouble making it actually look like anything hat-like due to the small scale it has to be to fit on the cat's head.

my WIP

I started making a thing :f

Here is what I did so far :

People tell me it's hard to see it's a cat, but I don't really know how to improve it :x

I had an idea for a helmed cat whose tail is on fire due to a dragon, but it was a bit too epic for an avatar.

I made a bunch of palettes around the theme of blue/red/yellow. I think I spent more time playing with color than actually making anything.




A lot of things are taking up my time, like working on my 2400 square foot garden (I'm actually starting to get muscles, amazingly) and also house hunting so I can move, so if I have any time to work on this it'll probably be a last minute thing. x_x

Bit late, but a3um, i love the medieval cat idea! Someone has to make something out of that! :')

Man this contest has way to many cool entries already.. Will we get like 10 votes this time?

but avatar

watchathink?

Got some line art and flat colors down. :)
The pallete still needs some messing with, but it's onto the tough parts for now!

Edit: Moar progress, still a lot to go.


Edited by Sooba - 26 June 2011 at 3:53am

prrfect.