The Catfish Avatar 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! Check out the Catfish Avatar forum thread for more information.

It's time to vote for the latest pixel art challenge: Catfish Avatar.

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Weird avatars week!

Draw a PJ avatar for a catfish profile. You can interprete "catfish" however you like, literal or metaphorical, realistic or totally not.

What will count as catfish portrait:

1) a literal catfish - the species of fish;

2) a cat and fish hybrid of any sort;

3) a cat wearing a fish mask (or impersonating a fish in any other way);

4) a fish wearing a cat mask (or impersonating a cat in any other way);

5) a human wearing a mask of other person (or impersonating someone in any other way);

6) a human wearing a mask of a catfish (or...);

7) a human who is identifiable as a "catfish" in any possible meaning (no real people unless it's yourself);

8) also a nonhuman impersonating a human;

9) any possible combination of the above you can come up with, with multiple levels allowed;

10) surprise us.

You have to use the Fish Clouds palette .

Canvas size: Exactly 64x64px.

Colours: Max 12.

Transparency: No.

Animation: No.

[I had this challenge idea stored for a while, but your entries for the Human - Featherless Biped challenge made  an obvious follow up.]

The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.