CHALLENGE: Year of the Yang

Depending on who you ask, it's either the Year of the Wood Goat or Sheep (...or Ram).

Either way, depict one of the above animals made from wood.

Canvas Size - Max 180 x 180.
Colours - Max 32.
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 Year of the Yang 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!

Here, have a flat-color WIP thing:

I want to go for a multiple-color wooded toy-like goat... that functions as a piggy bank. (note that I haven't added the hole yet)
Was inspired by this wooden toy of mine (cannot link it for some reason and it's too big to put in the [img] tag): http://i.imgur.com/sq2RxVA.jpg

Seeing as straw is made from plants such as wheat rather than trees and the challenge is asking for a wooden goat/sheep/ram... I highly doubt it qualifies IMO. Correct me if I am wrong.
My second WIP:

Chose my light source, blocked out the basic shading and added that piggy bank hole. I must say I'm kind of proud of it :3
I'm going for polished/"shiny" wood, like the wooden toy I have.

Yeah, I think that's fine. Straw is probably not fine...I'm pretty sure straw isn't made of wood.

Please use the 'edit it' under the art in your submission to upload a 1X version.

If you don't want  to do the challenge, then fair enough, but if you don't want to because your egg templates don't fit, then don't use the eggs.

Holy cow, that looks amazing :O I dunno how are you going to make the animal look wooden though... Right now it simply looks like a completely brown goat, but it could be just me.
Newest WIP:

Added some new shades, and now there are 5 shades per color not including outlines and the white in the eye. The 26 is simply the count of colors including transparency (and excluding the sun thing I'm using as a light source).
Might have to alter the lightest shades of green and red later on, as they do not look contrasting enough to me now. By the way, I'm not done yet since I have yet to define the wood texture, and as such it doesn't look wooden (yet).

today I finally decided to enter this challenge, and here is my WIP



Is it ok to add BG and words? or we just need to draw the sheep?

@Eggy Love the chest part =)

Thats very cool none the less Muxaun.