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CHALLENGE 1/18/2010: Hands

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Topic: CHALLENGE 1/18/2010: Hands
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Subject: CHALLENGE 1/18/2010: Hands
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 3:44am

CHALLENGE: Hands

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand - Hands are Notoriously hard to draw. This week you are challenged to draw an image that features a hand or hands as the main focus.

I recommend checking out http://www.cedarseed.com/fire/handstut.html - this tutorial if you need some help.

Canvas Size - Max 135 x 135.
Colours - Max 32.
Transparency - Optional.
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=1173' name='vote' target='_blank'>Vote now for your favorite pixelart in this week's challenge!

CHALLENGE AWARDS

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

/pixelart/49655.htm' target='_blank'>Flowa hand( !) by /p/23045.htm' target='_blank'>myrkrig
/pixelart/49633.htm' target='_blank'>Awkward Turkey! by /p/25979.htm' target='_blank'>Atrophy
/pixelart/49651.htm' target='_blank'>Hand, Pixelled by /p/23265.htm' target='_blank'>Manupix


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

/pixelart/49585.htm' target='_blank'>Shadow Rabbit [Weekly Challenge] by /p/18647.htm' target='_blank'>Prenn Saranda
/pixelart/49512.htm' target='_blank'>my hand by /p/23238.htm' target='_blank'>Kudohazama
/pixelart/49632.htm' target='_blank'>Don't touch this by /p/15008.htm' target='_blank'>Bimbo
/pixelart/49657.htm' target='_blank'>Shoot by /p/26062.htm' target='_blank'>Bumblebee
/pixelart/49547.htm' target='_blank'>A Handman Draws by /p/19575.htm' target='_blank'>theGemini08
/pixelart/49671.htm' target='_blank'>Master hand by /p/22212.htm' target='_blank'>TheRobinHood
/pixelart/49646.htm' target='_blank'>high... five? by /p/23895.htm' target='_blank'>mauricio-fidalgo
/pixelart/49624.htm' target='_blank'>Escher fail... by /p/21954.htm' target='_blank'>Shani
/pixelart/49610.htm' target='_blank'>Hadouken by /p/23474.htm' target='_blank'>inphy
/pixelart/49656.htm' target='_blank'>Lil' Kaiser by /p/13899.htm' target='_blank'>StickyTape
/pixelart/49619.htm' target='_blank'>Fly Me To the Moon by /p/23612.htm' target='_blank'>Phones
/pixelart/49581.htm' target='_blank'>That's handy... by /p/23507.htm' target='_blank'>shibumi
/pixelart/49573.htm' target='_blank'>Impending Doom by /p/20306.htm' target='_blank'>dpixel
/pixelart/49680.htm' target='_blank'>Melting Fist by /p/25687.htm' target='_blank'>APixel
/pixelart/49530.htm' target='_blank'>Hand sign "D" by /p/25458.htm' target='_blank'>Denmen707
/pixelart/49658.htm' target='_blank'>Creation by /p/20935.htm' target='_blank'>griffsnuff



Replies:
Posted By: Agris
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 6:53am
I wana do this ;) i have a idea, but can i draw robot hand,our it must be human hand???


Posted By: smk
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 8:07am
I think it doesn't matter as long as the hand is that of hunoidish form. (So I guess some type of android robot might be ok). I see this week's challenge as a challenge to draw hands, and drawing an organic hand is usually much more challenging that a robotic squarish hand. :s Let skammy say though his opinion on the subject.

EDIT: Yukky typo.


Posted By: orenshtiv
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 8:24am
Done! I'm not telling you what it is,go to my gallery and find out! :3


Posted By: skamocore
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 8:28am
I guess it should be fine doing an andriody hand as smk said (since it would basically be a metallic version of a human hand anyway). Anyway, post your ideas in here if you're unsure.


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Posted By: Denmen707
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 8:46am

WIP
it's the hand sign for "D" if i'm not mistaken


Posted By: orenshtiv
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 9:13am
Oh yeah,really thx for the tutorial! really helped! :)
and good luck everybody,I really hope to win this time!.


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Posted By: Agris
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 9:25am
This is my fast wip,it will be later combo of flesh and maschine ;)




Posted By: Kudohazama
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 10:06am
Competing the other time in the initial challenge was fun... I didn't win but now I have a smiley ribbon in my profile :D
anyways, I'll try to come up with something for this challenge.


Posted By: Kudohazama
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 10:39am
quick drawing of my hand wearing a finger armor...

finger armors allowed right?


Posted By: Denmen707
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 11:17am


Posted By: Manjaman
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 11:48am
Well, I think I could do something with this :

Your opinion is welcome


Posted By: Elk
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 1:50pm
im gonna make a hand holding a penis


Posted By: Agris
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 2:13pm
Elk your pervers ;)


Posted By: Agris
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 2:16pm
Denmen you need more contrast its look like a blob :P


Posted By: Manupix
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 3:08pm
Manjaman: do it!

Elk: do it!


Posted By: Kudohazama
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 3:30pm
someone should make a guy picking his nose...


Posted By: d-p
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 3:39pm
Here is my wip. Still pretty boring – a single hand is quite boring in my oppinion. So thats the challenge maybe.




ref used: http://www.turntillburn.ch/cms/ttb/index.php?id=90&L=2




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Posted By: skamocore
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 3:57pm
Where did it say that it had to be a single hand? Or just a hand?

@Manjaman: Reminds me of these creatures from the Oddworld series:




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Posted By: Kudohazama
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 4:09pm
OMfG I love that game! 


Posted By: Mortar
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 4:59pm
here's an early WIP:

it's a stickman hand! i even saved as .jpg for max quality

anyways, interesting contest, i'll probably actually do something later :P




Posted By: ellie-is
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 5:12pm
Oddworld is very awesome indeed.
And manjaman, that looks awesome so far.


Posted By: APixel
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 8:07pm
Here's my lineart...

I've been kind of obsessed with hands lately so this challenge came at just the right time. Good luck to everyone!


Posted By: IQbrew
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 10:27pm
Originally posted by Elk

im gonna make a hand holding a penis

I can't tell if he's serious or not...


Posted By: Morgengrauen
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 11:28pm
Originally posted by Kudohazama

someone should make a guy picking his nose...


well, focus is not on the hand, but...
http://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/45188.htm - http://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/45188.htm


Posted By: Bubu
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 6:27am

First sketch, nevermind the big border, that's gonna go, it's just part of my process.

Left the construction lines underneath.

Title is "I'll fix you".
Ref is my hand, from real, lolz, but with the tablet's pen instead of the syringe... I'm terrified of them haha.


Posted By: orenshtiv
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 6:57am
Succes? - no,FAIL,I failed,again...i'm not a real pixel artist :(
well,this is mine(this and my avatar):



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Posted By: dpixel
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 9:42am
Originally posted by Bubu


First sketch, nevermind the big border, that's gonna go, it's just part of my process.

Left the construction lines underneath.

Title is "I'll fix you".
Ref is my hand, from real, lolz, but with the tablet's pen instead of the syringe... I'm terrified of them haha.
 
I'm terrrified of them too.  :-(
 
 
Any tips on how to finish this?  It's kind of an impending doom type thing.
I had to brighten the colors so I can see them on this dark crt I'm on.  I'll tone it down when I get home.


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Posted By: inphy
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 10:58am
Trying to play around with light a bit.



Posted By: Shani
Date Posted: 19 January 2010 at 11:52am


Still a WIP - I don't like the Colors.

Reference: http://www.nnanos.nl/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/escher-tekenen.jpg and my own hands.

Note: I didn't want to make an exact copy of escher's drawing.


Posted By: theGemini08
Date Posted: 20 January 2010 at 1:49am


WIP. Which one is nice?

Edit:

A new version.


Posted By: Spirou
Date Posted: 20 January 2010 at 6:34am
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Posted By: Bubu
Date Posted: 20 January 2010 at 6:36am
kinda wishin i'd taken a picture of my hand to use as ref or just found one on the internets cause now everytime i try to put it in the same position the lighting and the position are different and it's annoying me haahahahaa


Posted By: myrkrig
Date Posted: 20 January 2010 at 7:41am
Going realism >: D
---updated----
refineing


Posted By: Atrophy
Date Posted: 20 January 2010 at 11:17pm
So.. New here. So figured I'd start out doing the challenge, So.. Without further adieu here is my WIP of Hands.



There are doing the Awkward turkey high-five. IDK if anyone else but people around me have heard of it.


Posted By: Manjaman
Date Posted: 21 January 2010 at 3:24pm

If you have tips to draw flesh...


Posted By: RollerKingdom
Date Posted: 21 January 2010 at 7:21pm
Originally posted by myrkrig

Going realism >: D


Deff in love with this :) Hope you can finish!


Posted By: IQbrew
Date Posted: 21 January 2010 at 8:30pm
I may remake a really old pixel of mine...

Maybe not.


Posted By: kf.
Date Posted: 22 January 2010 at 3:48pm

I've never done hands before....


Posted By: APixel
Date Posted: 22 January 2010 at 4:08pm
Originally posted by Atrophy

So.. New here. So figured I'd start out doing the challenge, So.. Without further adieu here is my WIP of Hands.



There are doing the Awkward turkey high-five. IDK if anyone else but people around me have heard of it.


Hahaha LOVE this... It looks amazingly realistic so far!
Can't wait to see it finished

Do you know the snail one too?


Posted By: APixel
Date Posted: 22 January 2010 at 11:33pm
I changed my mind and decided to go with something pretty basic that focuses more on the hand
Here's my latest WIP



Posted By: Atrophy
Date Posted: 23 January 2010 at 1:16am
Originally posted by APixel

Originally posted by Atrophy

So.. New here. So figured I'd start out doing the challenge, So.. Without further adieu here is my WIP of Hands.



There are doing the Awkward turkey high-five. IDK if anyone else but people around me have heard of it.


Hahaha LOVE this... It looks amazingly realistic so far!
Can't wait to see it finished

Do you know the snail one too?


Haha, nope. Never heard of it.

Btw. I'm basically finished with it. Even knocked the preview out. (pretty crappy but.. oh well.)

I'll probably submit tomorrow before I go out. I wanna take a few more looks at it, make sure I got every major flaw out of the way.



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