One of the best pixel activities of the year, Pixelation's annual Secret Santa will be held on Pixel Joint this year, due to circumstances (of course with permission from its previous organiser, Atnas). If you'd like to participate all you need to do is hit on this thread and type "I'm in" and note what you'd like or wouldn't like from your Santa this christmas.
Make sure to sign up before December 6th.

Please only sign up if you are absolutely certain you can finish your gift. Have fun!

This week, we want you to pixel a block of material - any single material in the shape of the first letter of its name. For example an S-shaped stone block or a W-shaped water. Feel free with the material selection, it's perfectly ok to choose a mixture such as soil or even stuff like plants (such as "G stands for Grass"). You're free to make a background or leave it transparent.

Please name your piece in the format of "X stands for Xxx".

Canvas Size - 100x100 max.
Colors - Max 12
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - No.

This week we want you to pick one of the four templates and create a card based on the element associated with it.

Fire (orange) - Air (yellow) - Earth (green) - Water (blue)

It can be a creature, a spell or anything of your choice.
In the description, you can write what the card does in details, etc.

You can modify the template as you deem fitting, but the card color has to remain similar to the template color.

Bonus Challenge: Make an entry for each element.

Canvas Size - 78 x 100 (same as template)
Colors - Max 25
Transparency - Optional, only for the corners.
Animation - No.

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

Pick a country and depict something which you associate with that country. That might be a person, a dish, a location, or anything else.

Your palette is the exact colors that you find in the flag of the country in this wikipedia list. No AA colors or inbetween colors, only the main colors of the flag. Colors used in the emblem icons on flags are also allowed to be used, however should there be many colors in a flag then the maximum amount of colors you can use is 8. No extra colors, so for many countries this will become a 2 or 3 color piece.
If you click on the flag name in the list you'll most often find hex color codes in the wiki article about the flag.

The size of your canvas will depend on the flag you pick, it needs to match the same width/heigth aspect ratio as the flag. You can find a list of aspect ratios here. So for example if your flag has an aspect ratio of 2:3 and you make the height 50px, the width becomes 75px. If you don't know how to calulate this: Multiply your height by the number in brackets () on the wiki page. If you choose a flag with an irregular shape your canvas needs to match that shape, and the rest of the canvas is transparent. Maximum height is 80px.

This challenge idea comes from keeling00

Canvas Size - Height: max 80px. Width depends on the height and the flag you choose.
Colors - The main colors of the flag you choose only, as given by the wiki page. Max 8, should there be more colors.
Transparency - Only if the country you choose is Nepal. Otherwise no.
Animation - No.

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

PixelJoint is now going to give two new monthly awards!

There'll be:

- a monthly top faves award, which goes to the member who has the most total faves on pieces submitted in the month.


October's top commenter awards go to:

1. Hapiel
2. SeDiceBisonte
3. Quiara

And October's most favourited award goes to:
andylittle

Congratulations to all of you! See you next month for November's awards!

  PS: Thanks to our new mod Jinn for the lovely award icons (once again).

Today is the Day of the Dead, and this week we want you to draw the portrait of someone who has passed away, using the palette below by Frosty Rabbid. It can be someone from the history, somoene famous, your relative or perhaps some imaginary person. It does not have to be realistic either.

Canvas Size - Max: 100x100
Colors - Max 8 from this palette

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Transparency - No.
Animation - No.

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