CHALLENGE: Nintendo Frankenpalette

Create a scene using the palette shown below - a mash-up of both the Virtual Boy and Game Boy palettes:

The theme for this challenge is desolate.

Canvas size - Unrestricted.
Colours - Exactly 4. Use all of the colours from this palette:

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 Nintendo Frankenpalette 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!

Restricted palette? Check.
Unlimited canvas size? Check.
Mrmo cleaning house before anyone else got started? Check.


I just thought the palette looked fun, so I started doodling this morning, with nothing in mind at all. Eventually, it started looking like a movie poster I recognised.



I then read that the challenge theme was 'desolate'. Clearly, I have psychic powers / was sent from the future. Not going to enter it, but it was a fun challenge.

PS: I suck at fonts. And kerning.

Edited by CELS - 12 May 2014 at 3:13am

This is not what I thought I would draw.




Edited by Anonzs - 12 May 2014 at 9:14am

Damn Mrmo, love that raw creative power!

I got a some good ideas for tomorrow.

:D here's an update. It kinda got big.



*updated update*

Re-shaded the structure in the foreground to better match the overall lighting. At least I hope it does.



Edited by Mrmo Tarius - 13 May 2014 at 4:31am

This is my starting WIP for this week's challenge. If you feel like it, please, help me to correct any error and to improve it.




Edited by dyluck - 13 May 2014 at 6:39am

Magnificent drawingman!

Here is my attempt and first pixel challenge piece.




I NEED feedback as I am pretty new to this.

Edited by Limes - 14 May 2014 at 7:11am

^ most recent

This is my current WIP!
I haven't attempted a pixel join challenge before because I wasn't terribly interested in the themes or just didn't really think it would be worth the effort

I've spent a good few hours on it and am done with the human for tonight. Will probably start on the background tommorow :p

Edited by Shadowfox - 13 May 2014 at 6:39pm

@Shadowfox, "Create a scene" NOT a portrait.

@Adrawingman
how about a beacon of somekind, or maybe even windows

I'm not very comfortable working with big canvas as I've never made such things, and nowadays I can't spend the time I would like pixeling, but I tried to be a little more dary...

I chose elements (such as lava, bones...) to match the theme and because I think they work with the palette.

Tried to fix the banding problem @ADrawingMan mentioned (thanks, again).
I wonder if the big crater in the valley reads like it's erupting rocks and if gthe composition, lava rivers and bones works like this, so, I would be grateful for any advice.

@ADrawingMan, I personally like the most your penultimate version (with the clouds and the sand details in the last one).

@ShadowFox, nice, it reminds me Gaara from Naruto manga. I would work the facial expression if you have time to spend on it.

@Limes , I agree @CELS's proposal.

@Shadowfox, you are in Oekaki territory there.

@Shadowfox- this tutorial by cure explains what oekaki is. Simply put, oekaki is art made with a limited toolset that isn't polished on the pixel level. Oekaki was originally drawn in paintchats where the tools were rudimentary and similar to MS-paint.

I generally try to apply the things I pick up looking at other art, learn in art class, and see in photos to my pixels. I started pixeling last year, but I've been drawing for longer than I can remember!

Again, I appologize if it breaks any rules. I tried my best with the limitations and my patience (one of the reasons I don't make people a lot)

if I shrink It down it will look all crazy and blurry (partially transparent pixels everywhere)...

And i can't really see stray colored pixels at this size >_> if it's shrunken Down it will be everywhere

thanks for the example, but I feel like i would mess it up if I tried to clean it up

I feel like it did lose a lot a detail, but it was still kind of readable. The parts I spent the most time on weren't really as readable when it was smaller >_> (nose and hair) i made it larger because then I had space to shade it more so I could tell which was which (because of color limitations)

a drawing man showed me how to make it small without making it blurry :D

Edited by Shadowfox - 14 May 2014 at 5:31pm

Testing...


@Shadowfox, I'd like to see that one finished. I'm all for shrinking it and having more control over its structure by refining it manually (or using the large one as reference for a smaller, more refined version?).

@Limes
I thought a beacon was a good idea but after fooling around with it I couldn't think of where the beacon could go. I want the attention to be focused on the ship and wrecked city, so when I tried out a beacon it kind of averted the focus. Good thing is that I've found a use for the brightest red!



Got rid of the dithering (obviously). This was actually an accident, I didn't mean for everything to turn wide but I actually like it better this way then the dithered version. Going to be submitting today though so that I can move onto more important pixels.


Kept the clouds due to dyluck and CELS comments (they still need working on).

@mrmo
That looks really interesting. I can't wait to see how it will turn out!

Edited by ADrawingMan - 15 May 2014 at 8:04am

I don't know what exactly I need to fix, and it don't really want to work on it anymore. Was fun to attempt it. If it doesn't get in oh well just leave me here to die

Edited by Shadowfox - 15 May 2014 at 11:26am

Nobody said it has to be 'ruined', 'desolate' essentially means "barren of life"...And your scene is pretty lifeless. It meets the criteria.

trying experimenting a STEALER-like feel

@shadowfox
I think it's looking like Oekaki because you're not dithering at all and there's something else.... Its probably that if you used red accents on the girls face as well as some of that grey-green Nintendo stuff on the red background it might help make it less flat and Oekaki-ish.

Those are just my thoughts on it... I'm not exactly a pixel master, just an armchair quarterback

With all due respect, Pringles, I don't think it's any of those things.

The reason this looks more like oekaki (which is japanese for 'drawing', I believe) than pixel art, is because it was drawn like a drawing, or a sketch. A lot of rough lines, like scribbling. The fabric, the laurel wreaths, the hair and that... cape-like thing, hanging on the spear and shield. They all look very rushed, sketched out, and with no clean-up afterwards. As a result, there's hundreds, if not thousands, of pixels in the image that don't serve a function. The skull looks like it was drawn in thirty seconds, it's just a rough outline, like a cartoon skull, which makes it seem out of place next to the detailed face on the right.

Dithering has nothing to do with it. There are several perfectly good entries to the challenge that have no dithering or such small amounts of dithering that they would work equally well without dithering. And you don't need more colours to show depth. There are some areas of the boy's head which show good depth, such as where the jaw meets the neck. That's just with two colours.

Edited by CELS - 16 May 2014 at 3:20am