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CHALLENGE 9/14/2020: RGx Water

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Topic: CHALLENGE 9/14/2020: RGx Water
Posted By: administrator
Subject: CHALLENGE 9/14/2020: RGx Water
Date Posted: 14 September 2020 at 12:51am

CHALLENGE: RGx Water

Draw a scene which involves water. For example: a calm lake, a gardener watering their plants or a mockup of an underwater level, anything goes as long as there is some water visible.

The twist: there are no "blue" values allowed. You can use any colors between [0,0,0] and [255,255,0], but make sure that each color has 0 for the blue component!  If using hex codes, colors will be #XXXX00.  (This also means no gray, white, or magenta, as all include some value in the blue channel).

Canvas Size - Max 128x96 (any orientation)
Colors - Max 16, no blue in any of the colors.
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 suggest a future week's challenge. If you're a winner and you wish to submit your idea, send a message to https://pixeljoint.com/p/27498.htm - Gecimen .
  • 'Participation' ribbons will be given for all who enter.
  • No matter what happens you get challenged :)

CHALLENGE VOTING

/pixels/poll.asp?id=1716' name='vote' target='_blank'>Vote now for your favorite pixelart in this week's challenge!

CHALLENGE AWARDS

The RGx Water pixel art challenge is complete and we have three new champions. This week's challenge awards go to the following pieces:

/pixelart/134696.htm' target='_blank' class='winner1'>The Deep by /p/2621.htm' target='_blank'>cure
/pixelart/134731.htm' target='_blank' class='winner2'>The (RGx) Bogwitch by /p/150553.htm' target='_blank'>Dracula9AntiChapel
/pixelart/134720.htm' target='_blank' class='winner3'>In the depths of the Nile by /p/36453.htm' target='_blank'>greenxspace


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

/pixelart/134674.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>RGx Water Challenge "Sunset Training" by /p/220688.htm' target='_blank'>Pakochuu
/pixelart/134718.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>droplett by /p/111331.htm' target='_blank'>Draxen
/pixelart/134677.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Floating Islands by /p/216277.htm' target='_blank'>Nightmare3711
/pixelart/134735.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Lady of the Bloody Lake by /p/220811.htm' target='_blank'>Steventus
/pixelart/134732.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Artifact stone statue by /p/215318.htm' target='_blank'>KimDomOwner
/pixelart/134739.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Look at this neat frog by /p/211933.htm' target='_blank'>Quiara
/pixelart/134692.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Sunset Creek by /p/217673.htm' target='_blank'>tobe
/pixelart/134669.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Fish Charmer by /p/220173.htm' target='_blank'>cjlm123
/pixelart/134733.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Moonlight Puddle by /p/22061.htm' target='_blank'>EyeballKid
/pixelart/134634.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Yamato - Making a Splash by /p/202062.htm' target='_blank'>GeloKaiser
/pixelart/134743.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Splash Cube by /p/150553.htm' target='_blank'>Dracula9AntiChapel
/pixelart/134686.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>A golden light by /p/66890.htm' target='_blank'>Trigonomicon
/pixelart/134701.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>The Lone Lake by /p/41268.htm' target='_blank'>Eggy
/pixelart/134744.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>The Creature from the Black Lagoon by /p/219459.htm' target='_blank'>digi_divine


Replies:
Posted By: DawnBringer
Date Posted: 14 September 2020 at 1:56am
Since when is a RGB color channel of a palette called subpixel?

Interesting challenge though!

Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 14 September 2020 at 11:18am
You are right, that is a bit confusing. Challenge wording is updated!

Posted By: thalassophobic
Date Posted: 14 September 2020 at 8:09pm
Originally a post in the PJ Official Discord Server, but I'm putting it up here for the benefit of anyone who hasn't yet joined (which you should totally do).
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I was having some trouble visualizing the available color space for the challenge, so I made this square with red and green values being the x-y coordinates.



Something I noticed about the colors is that with the exception of black, they all have maximum saturation. The value rises linearly from 0 to 100 as you approach the lower and right edges. And of course, the Hue is limited from 0 to 120, exactly a third of the available spectrum.

As someone who thinks exclusively in HSV, this information gives me a good starting point on what I'd like to do for the challenge. Hopefully it'll be interesting, if not useful, for someone else out there :v

Posted By: tobe
Date Posted: 15 September 2020 at 12:51am
I started in RGB and then reduced all B to 0. Worked well to get something on the page, as the full saturation look can be quite challenge to start.

Posted By: Quiara
Date Posted: 15 September 2020 at 4:41pm
Ok, I think the problem I have with this week's challenge isn't not being able to use blue - it's not being able to use white! Any advice on how to make a piece that looks good without white tones...?

Posted By: DawnBringer
Date Posted: 15 September 2020 at 5:46pm
Yellow is the new white!

Posted By: GeloKaiser
Date Posted: 16 September 2020 at 9:58pm
Whenever part of the theme is water related, the first thing that comes to my mind is warships, particularly the Yamato.

From a previous challenge:

Posted By: Trigonomicon
Date Posted: 16 September 2020 at 10:55pm
Originally posted by Quiara

Ok, I think the problem I have with this week's challenge isn't not being able to use blue - it's not being able to use white! Any advice on how to make a piece that looks good without white tones...?

Really poor illumination (but in a cool, stylish way).


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