CHALLENGE: Pumpkin Patch

Create a pumpkin avatar that is lit by at least two distinct external light sources (lights inside the pumpkin don't count).

You are encouraged to use it as your avatar until the end of the month.

Canvas Size - Max 64 x 64.
Colours - Max 31.
Transparency - Optional.
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 Pumpkin Patch 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!

Probably not.

My attempt at something. Those things will be the light sources. My pumpkin isn't the best, though. Also, palette.

Struggling how to make the tongue look like a tongue atm. Might ditch the tongue idea all together.



Edited by ADrawingMan - 13 October 2014 at 4:07pm

piw

Edited by SpeedyCube - 13 October 2014 at 6:52pm

WIP, based on the avatar I use on most other websites.




Edited by Drazile - 14 October 2014 at 12:43am

Wip2 Trying to use all 31 colours for fun (only at 16 right now)



@PokemonMercury
Nice! My only crit would be that you should try to fool around with your colour palette a bit more, try to give it a bit more diversity by using more than just one spot of hue on the colour ramp for your greens. Try going from blue to green to make it a bit more interesting!

Edited by ADrawingMan - 14 October 2014 at 7:52am

@pokemonmercury
Yes! That's more like it! One last thing I noticed is that there's a lot of banding going on around some parts. The blue to green shift really makes it a lot better already.


Gonna animate it now. It's actually sort of difficult to think of ways to use 31 colours :L



Edited by ADrawingMan - 14 October 2014 at 9:46am

@ADrawingMan I was leaning for the Bubblegum Pixel Art style. (It's my favorite style) Did I manage to do it, in your opinion?

@pokemonmercury

Mmm, well in all honesty it kind of strays a bit from the bubblegum style imho. If that's the type of style that you're shooting for though, then take a look at pixeljoint user Skeddles work, bubblegum style usually doesn't have a lot of single pixels, it uses a lot of pixel clusters and most of the time has a dark outline around objects.

@Finlal
Yeah, I was thinking of doing that too. I'm also going to try to give it a little bouncy affect to practice sub-pixel animation. Thanks for the suggestion!

Hey, here's mine so far. What do you guys and girls think about it so far?

Think I might add a face later on. Maybe a nice background too.

Edited by Trickythetiger - 15 October 2014 at 9:21am

@Trickythetiger I might be wrong, but I seem to see only one external light source? Did you forget about a second one or I am blind?

@Drazile Your pumpkin has a great character! As for the lighting, it might seem weird because for the sort of lighting you went for the light source would have to be pretty close and also the shadows to the side ignore it almost completely. I tried to draw in how the light sources (made them radial ones since thats most common) would work in your picture, maybe that could help you?


@felchqueen The cat face is actually cute, hah :) Though, I would recommend you to revisit the green lightning. The orange one is done absolutely great, so it's kind of sad that the green doesn't stand up to the same quality.

@ADrawingMan Wow, I am loving the flame! looking forward to the result of animation :)


A concept of what I might be going for so far, though I feel it's too crowded right now. Pirate pumpkin yay!

Unripe pumpkins are green. Ripe pumpkins are orange and also cultural associations.

@SoraAkihiru Aha, thanks I forgot all about the second light source.

Well here's some more progress on my pumpkin.

Just put a table or something to the background. You can even keep it as it is.

The lighting is very well done. You could smooth out the lines etc.

It probably does.

WIP so far. Have to choose lighting and fix some things.

Looks interesting! The eyes look a bit like a spider's, is it going to be a spider pumpkin?

WIP, I know it sucks, rookie here, also.. (Hi, I'm new! :D)

Wrong colors. The green/blue shades are far too saturated for the orange ramp.

Will be gone for most of today, hopefully I'll be able to finish this tomorrow.

More or less the same as my previous submission since all it has is a bouncy effect going on.
@MrHai
Ahhh, the teeth are cute!

Edited by ADrawingMan - 18 October 2014 at 7:56am

Here is mine. For some reason when I try to upload to the site, I get 500 - Internal server error. Anybody know what's up with that?

Thanks for answering, CooliePixel, I guess I'll just wait.


I used Photoshop for making this piece. What did you use for yours?
About my colours - they are mostly from DawnBringer's 32 colour palette which was posted somewhere on these forums, but I cannot find the link now, unfortunately. It is a pretty versatile palette for pixel art.

NOOOO!!! It's not finished!!!