CHALLENGE: Mother Nature

Create a sprite of Mother Nature - the personification of nature.

In the interest of inclusivity, you may instead make a sprite of Father Nature, if you are so inclined.

Canvas Size - Max 100 x 100.
Colours - Exactly 11.
Transparency - Required.
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 Mother Nature 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!

When it says exactly 11, does that include the transparency? 

this is gonna be much fun

This one is going to be tough for me, early days, but before I go too far in the wrong direction anyone see anything obviously wrong?



This is my first 'person' so any advice appreciated, I'm aware the hands need work (there are none at moment :) )  I think I'm going to go for a leafy dress when I've got the shading sorted.


Edited by felchqueen - 18 August 2014 at 11:06am

Transparency is seen as a color on any pixel site

It IS any color that contains a mask so you don't see the color that is still there but unseen thus it exists

shhhh... she's angry

Here is my attempt. When I think of nature, I think of the basic elements of the world. I figured Mother Nature should have command of them all. It is very difficult being constricted on colors.  I needed certain colors for certain areas so I wasn't able to have much for shadows and highlights. Did however give me some practice on recycling colors. I had to scale it down because of that fact.

Edited by Froste - 19 August 2014 at 5:02pm

This is my WIP

Are you philosophically opposed?

Help! Really struggling with this, it looks messy to my eyes, but I'm not sure how to tighten it up. was I wrong to go for green skin?

There are some issues with the shading. It looks like you didn't follow the shapes that are present in her body. I would rework the pose to something more dynamic/curvy and lower here right shoulder.

It's a funny coincidence that we both chose the same pose for our mother nature's torso and right arm placement. They even have similar lightsources! I think that an edit would look almost like the piece I submitted. Here is a link to it. I hope it helps with the anatomy.

http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/88406.htm#c488742


The palette is not that much of a problem in my opinion... hmm, maybe go for a darker blue instead of grey though.

Like skeddles said, two things you could do are to try to get rid of dithering and to work out bigger clusters. Outlining the whole piece with a darker colour might refine it as well.

I really like the pose and design choices, everything feels linked and  homogeneous.


Edited by Mandrill - 20 August 2014 at 5:32pm

@Skeddles and Mandrill, thank you for your responses, I'll knock back the colour and make some adjustments, let's see where that takes me.

And here we are, better, worse?




Edited by felchqueen - 21 August 2014 at 12:49am

The grain texture is great! And those are quite some hips.

Here's my WIP for the contest. A little Mucha inspired. I'm also still playing around with the colours, they're a little more muted and sickly than I would like.

Gonna add some more detailing in the background as well as finish the face and hair. Any comments or criticism are very much welcome :)



Edit:

Fixed it up a bit. I'll continue tomorrow :P



Edited by LameCakes - 22 August 2014 at 12:26am

I pixelled a bit over it and think that it lacks shadows. I would use the darker green you antialiased her leg with to create them. This should help with your arm problem as well! They generate enough depth to push her arm back and make you able to use a less strong colour to highlight properly.


Edited by Mandrill - 22 August 2014 at 9:46am

@Daimoth, looking forward to progress on the 'mutant' :)

@ska, this follows the trans rule?
Its in the queue but I did not add as I was unsure.

My entry !




Edited by Evidence - 23 August 2014 at 6:52pm