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CHALLENGE 5/30/2011: Side Canvas Not So F

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Topic: CHALLENGE 5/30/2011: Side Canvas Not So F
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Subject: CHALLENGE 5/30/2011: Side Canvas Not So F
Date Posted: 30 May 2011 at 12:02am

CHALLENGE: Side Canvas Not So Fruity

Much like the http://www.pixeljoint.com/2010/09/27/3285/Pixel_Art_Challenge-_Mid-Canvas_Void.htm - Mid-Canvas Void challenge we ran a while back, the goal here is to pixel something using the provided template. You must, however, include a single solid coloured area - indicated below by the highlighted green square. The highlighted section can be any colour you want; it doesn't necessarily have to be #00ff00 / green.

You may rotate the canvas if you like; this means that the top, right, bottom, or left hand side could contain your solid-colour area.

Perhaps, most importantly, unlike the previous challenge, your image doesn't have to relate to fruit (but it can if you want).

Canvas Size - Use template:

the image

Colours - Unrestricted. Keep in mind though, that your chosen side canvas section must only be one solid colour.
Transparency - No.
Animation - No.

CHALLENGE RULES

  • Participants have until this upcoming Sunday at midnight (12AM Pacific) to /pixels/submit_icons.asp'>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 /forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=8'>WIP section is highly encouraged, but ONLY SUBMIT YOUR FINAL ART.

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.

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 :)

CHALLENGE VOTING

/pixels/poll.asp?id=1244' name='vote' target='_blank'>Vote now for your favorite pixelart in this week's challenge!

CHALLENGE AWARDS

The Side Canvas Not So Fruity pixel art challenge is complete and we have three new champions. This week's challenge awards go to the following pieces:

/pixelart/62307.htm' target='_blank' class='winner1'>Decoy by /p/21045.htm' target='_blank'>a3um
/pixelart/62395.htm' target='_blank' class='winner2'>Top Canvas Ebony by /p/14300.htm' target='_blank'>Joe.
/pixelart/62330.htm' target='_blank' class='winner3'>Screaming Head by /p/23859.htm' target='_blank'>Xamllew


Thanks so much to all who took the time to vote and participate in the challenge!

/pixelart/62362.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Crystal Mine by /p/31359.htm' target='_blank'>Rebolation?
/pixelart/62441.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Meghan by /p/25620.htm' target='_blank'>Chrispy
/pixelart/62455.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>A Ride Up the Hill by /p/22373.htm' target='_blank'>artistictiger
/pixelart/62332.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Wasteland by /p/821.htm' target='_blank'>mrmean
/pixelart/62279.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Mountain Drive by /p/30518.htm' target='_blank'>twingloxx
/pixelart/62363.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Depression by /p/20306.htm' target='_blank'>dpixel
/pixelart/62469.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>secret admirer by /p/22488.htm' target='_blank'>Mortar
/pixelart/62386.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>BATMAN by /p/32608.htm' target='_blank'>vassink
/pixelart/62408.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>I can't be arsed to think of an appropriate title. by /p/10586.htm' target='_blank'>theguy
/pixelart/62337.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Farewell by /p/32521.htm' target='_blank'>Chibiwing
/pixelart/62269.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Egyptian Crushing Sun by /p/32935.htm' target='_blank'>Elastico-Gadget
/pixelart/62419.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>House on a Cliff by /p/33248.htm' target='_blank'>Bleda
/pixelart/62334.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>20% cooler by /p/10044.htm' target='_blank'>wish04
/pixelart/62251.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Landing Pad by /p/32324.htm' target='_blank'>Advarsky
/pixelart/62283.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>All glory to the cubical God ! by /p/30948.htm' target='_blank'>eclep



Replies:
Posted By: a3um
Date Posted: 30 May 2011 at 7:55am
Just to make sure, is it open themed challenge? if so, wip(:



Posted By: skamocore
Date Posted: 30 May 2011 at 8:06am
Yep, open theme, people complained about the fruitiness last time...

Also, I really like your avatar :3


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Posted By: Elastico-Gadget
Date Posted: 30 May 2011 at 10:13am
Hi. I am trying to make an egyptian sky and landscape with an huge and heavy sun, using the as few colors as possible. I want it really minimalist and jagged.

This is what I've done for the moment, for the landscape:





 
I am quite satisfied with it, but I would like to add the winged solar disk symbol, though I don't know if it really fits, and would like to have some advices, if you please:








This is my source for the symbol:



Any comment and critic on any aspect of the art is welcome.


Posted By: Lynxiie
Date Posted: 30 May 2011 at 11:32am
Haven't uploaded a Wip into the challenge thread yet, but i'v been doing the comps without entering them! i might not enter this one either but its helpful to get CC!!


Posted By: Rebolation?
Date Posted: 30 May 2011 at 12:04pm
My idea is to make a room with games on the floor and a lonely kid with no features!
To going well?



Remember if I am new to the world of Pixel Art! : D

New WIP:


Posted By: Lynxiie
Date Posted: 30 May 2011 at 12:28pm
Originally posted by Rebolation?

My idea is to make a room with games on the floor and a lonely kid with no features!
To going well?



Remember if I am new to the world of Pixel Art! : D


Thats a cool idea, Are you sure you haven't done this before? ;)


Posted By: Rebolation?
Date Posted: 30 May 2011 at 12:55pm
Originally posted by Lynxiie

Originally posted by Rebolation?

My idea is to make a room with games on the floor and a lonely kid with no features!
To going well?



Remember if I am new to the world of Pixel Art! : D


Thats a cool idea, Are you sure you haven't done this before? ;)

Surely not!
Unless someone has already done something and I do not know ... But still they keep doing it until someone says it already exists


Posted By: Xamllew
Date Posted: 30 May 2011 at 11:32pm
My WIP



Posted By: Chibiwing
Date Posted: 31 May 2011 at 1:24am
So we can have the color extend beyond the boundries of the square?


Posted By: Reo
Date Posted: 31 May 2011 at 2:48am
Originally posted by Chibiwing

So we can have the color extend beyond the boundries of the square?

Yus!


Posted By: a3um
Date Posted: 31 May 2011 at 8:20am
@skamocore - thanks :3

Dang, it's getting more complicated than I've planned... wip



Posted By: Rebolation?
Date Posted: 31 May 2011 at 10:46am
This is my final WIP!


Posted By: Chibiwing
Date Posted: 31 May 2011 at 4:44pm
Thank you, that'll make this much easier.
 
Wip:
 
Just some scribbles right now but I'm going to try for some type of Vikingish funeral pyre boat thing.


Posted By: a3um
Date Posted: 31 May 2011 at 9:16pm
Guys, could you tell me if it looks like rain or not(:



Posted By: Chibiwing
Date Posted: 31 May 2011 at 9:26pm
I'm getting a red x for your image.


Posted By: Mini
Date Posted: 31 May 2011 at 9:28pm
to me it does, looks great in the bottom left corner, just not sure what is with the red drop hitting the skull


Posted By: a3um
Date Posted: 31 May 2011 at 9:46pm
@Mini - laser designator)

@Chibiwing - hm, maybe you have an issue with imgur :\


Posted By: Mini
Date Posted: 31 May 2011 at 10:08pm
ah ok, might want to change the position of the splash effect near it then, kind of looks like the laser designator is causing it, if you get what i mean


Posted By: Chibiwing
Date Posted: 01 June 2011 at 12:16am
The site loads fine and I can see the pictures there; I can also see your first picture.  Did you do anything different with the second one?
 
Edit:  It's showing fine now. : )  Yes it does look like rain.
 
New wip:


Posted By: showtime
Date Posted: 01 June 2011 at 10:25am
@ Chibiwing:   ooooh, that is really pretty.  It would be so cool to see that animated, too bad there's no animation allowed for this challenge.

@ a3um:  That is amazing.  I'm kind of wondering how it would look if the rain was at an opposing angle to the laser instead of being parallel.  I think that might make things more dynamic/interesting, but maybe I'm completely wrong (it's really hard for me to tell whether that would look good or not without being able to see the rain at a different angle)

both of your pieces are quite subtle with hiding the square, too, which I respect.

EDIT: now I'm not so sure about what I said regarding the rain, hmm...


Posted By: Chibiwing
Date Posted: 01 June 2011 at 4:07pm
Thank you very much!  I don't have the skills to suitably animate even if we were allowed to, though. ^_^'
Can y'all tell me what things specifically need improving on?  I really want to get better. -^_^-


Posted By: Rebolation?
Date Posted: 02 June 2011 at 5:07pm
Because of my pixel art is not accepted, so I made this:


Posted By: cure
Date Posted: 02 June 2011 at 6:25pm
I think sticking with one, making a WIP thread, and applying any critique you might receive would be the best way to ensure you get an entry in. Giving up on one and pumping out another seems to ignore the root issue.

On this piece, the crystals need work. Crystals are distinctive due to their numerous, distinct, flat planes. Yours don't resemble the 3d polygons one expects a crystal to be, rather they are flat, and the shading completely ignores the separate planes that compose the crystals, instead relating only to the general shape of the contour. the background is over-dithered.


Posted By: Metaru
Date Posted: 02 June 2011 at 8:23pm
oh hi i cant log on the gallery.

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I ate leel's babies


Posted By: Rebolation?
Date Posted: 04 June 2011 at 7:34am


Posted By: Chibiwing
Date Posted: 04 June 2011 at 11:30pm
I don't like either one.  Try looking around to see how others have drawn crystals and look at real crystals too.
 
I haven't been able to work on the edits for my piece since I got food poisoning the other day.


Posted By: artistictiger
Date Posted: 05 June 2011 at 9:49am
Final WIP(had to re-upload this pic because i forgot all about the grid lol, had the color in the corner..moved it to the default place now"left side") silly me





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