Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 21
Everything mechanical is natural, and everything natural is mechanical.
You have to use the Natural Inteligence palette by Mierdinsky.
Canvas Size - Max 333x333.
Colors - Max 9.
Transparency - Forbidden.
Animation - Optional.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 20
Create a piece with a group of creatures or objects (at least 2), where another different one tries to fit in the group (without a disguise) by just being very similar looking object/species.
You have to use the Sneaky-12 Palette by RoBEEFnik
Canvas Size - Max 200x400.
Colors - Max 12 (13 if you use transparency).
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Forbidden.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 19
Create a piece with 3 characters (or more), all being the exact same height in pixels, but put in different heights in perspective, thus making them look small and near, normal and large, and far away respectively.
Canvas Size - Open.
Colors - Max 24.
Transparency - Forbidden.
Animation - Forbidden.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 18
Create two scenes either in animation or comic form. The first scene or panel having a characters expression and the second with the context explaining the expression of the character.
You have to use the CMYK Douce palette by Snurly.
Canvas Size - Max 250x200.
Colors - Max 4 (use the palette).
Transparency - Forbidden.
Animation - Optional.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 17
Create a scene with someone looking at a faraway point of interest... but try to make that point of interest up to be the weirdest, strangest, most-nonsensical thing imaginable.
You have to use the Fantastic Planet palette by Jude Buffum.
Canvas Size - Max 240x135.
Colors - Max 11 (use the palette).
Transparency - Forbidden.
Animation - Forbidden.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 16
Depict an animation, but don't actually show a moving animation. Instead, show every single frame at the same time in an image (you are allowed to play with colour illusions of transparency for better readability).
Since this challenge idea, invented by Weerdmeester, is so brilliant and mindblowing to me, I simply cannot, and couldn't add anything to it from myself, without messing things up. So instead I will just add my messy palette:
You have to use the maggot24 palette. Please try to continue the spirit of the previous challenge, and pixel something cute with it.
Or don't.
Canvas Size - Max 222x222.
Colors - Max 24 (use maggot24).
Transparency - Forbidden.
Animation - Forbidden.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 15
Depict a terryfying monstrous eldritch looking creature, in a very sweet context.
You have to choose one 8 colour palette from lospec. Link the palette in your artwork description.
Canvas Size - Max 300x200.
Colors - Max 8 (9 if you use transparency).
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 14
Create a piece with a color #fee000 encompassing at 25% or more of the piece.
Canvas Size - Open.
Colors - Open (you have to use at least 2 and one of them have to be #fee000).
Transparency - Forbidden.
Animation - Forbidden.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 13
1. Depict an object, and try to feel some sort of emotion about that object, without adding any anthropomorphic attributes to it.
2. You can use as many colours as you wish, but you have to assign one different emotion to each colour you use.
Make a list in your artwork description with your chosen colour hex codes and corresponding emotions.
Example:
2ca19f - Politeness
d71de3 - Annoyance
e3b61d - Delight
You can use any emotion classification you like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_classification
The emotion or emotions you depict with your object and the emotions you use as your palette blocks are two separate things and can, but do not have to be related in any way.
Canvas Size - Max 200x200.
Colors - Open*.
Transparency - Forbidden.
Animation - Forbidden.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 12
Create a standard PJ avatar without any stray pixels. Every single stray counts, also those meant for anti-aliasing/dithering.
However, this is not the end of the challenge. Your avatar picture cannot have a stray head too. You have to include at least two heads on your 64x64 square. We completely don't care if this will be a touching heads selfie with your friend, a rat on your shoulder, you holding a cabbage head, your conjoined twin or you as a two (or more) headed monster. If you can convince us that something has or is a head, it will be ok for this challenge.
You have to use the adl16 palette by adelfaure
Canvas Size - exactly 64x64.
Colors - Max 16.
Transparency - Forbidden.
Animation - Forbidden.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 11
Create a liminal space.
Canvas Size - 320x180 or 480x270.
Colors - Max 11.
Transparency - Forbidden.
Animation - Forbidden.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 10
Create a scene (or a portrait) where the point of interest, the most interesting thing of the art piece... is a stray pixel.
You have to use the Chrome Dino palette by Donkey Kong from Rejected Palettes.
Canvas Size - Min. 64x64. max 100x100 (have to be a square).
Colors - Max 8.
Transparency - Forbidden.
Animation - Forbidden.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
We are pausing the Weerdmeester Streak for one week. However, this challenge is inspired by the last one.
Take a look at this dialectic of opposites:
Alive -> Dead -> Undead
Something is alive and then becomes dead, and when it is brought back to life it does not reverse. It becomes undead. Undead is not dead but it is also not alive. It is something completely different and new.
Now for this challenge we will continue this process and go to one step further to „non-undead”.
Alive -> Dead -> Undead -> Non-undead
Again it is a complete new quality, different than each one before. Not alive, not dead, and not undead also. What exactly is non-undead? I have no idea. You will try to answer that question in this challenge.
Pixel how you understand "non-undead".
The form is completely open. It can be a sprite, a scene, a portrait, whatever you need.
You have to use Resurrect 32 Palette by Kerrie Lake.
Canvas Size - Open.
Colors - Max 32 (33 if you use transparency).
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 9
Draw an animal and a non-inanimate object depicting that same animal species.
You have to use the Indecision Palette by Nelson SMG
Canvas Size - max 300x200.
Colors - Max 18.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 8
Make a preview implying the contextt of a work, but have the actual work be about something else entirely.
Canvas Size - min 200x200, max 400x500.
Colors - Max 24.
Transparency - Forbidden.
Animation - Forbidden.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 7
Depict eyes, on things, in things, besides things, looking at things.
You have to use the 20-20 Vision Palette by le.
Canvas Size - max 200x200.
Colors - Max 20 (21 if transparency).
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 6
Choose a painting (link it in the description) with creatures and people in it, pick a creature or a person in the scene and depict their point of view exactly.
Canvas Size - Determined by the point of view of the chosen viewer.
Colors - Determined by the point of view of the chosen viewer.
Transparency - Forbidden.
Animation - Forbidden.
We are stopping Weerdmeester Streak to become foolish once again (it is still April).
Draw and animate Tipleloop riding a bike 14000km over the land and the sea to not-cancel Weerdmeester. You can freely interpret this phrase. It can be a sprite or a scene. You only have to animate Tipleloop and her bike to qualify, so if you go for a background, animating it is totally optional. The meaning of "bike" is as wide as possible. It can be a mountain bike, cargo bike, hybrid bike, motorbike, rail bike, water bike, hoverbike, unicycle, space bike, or vintage penny-farthing. If you don't know how Tipleloop looks, you can check the Class Photo collab or use your imagination.
You have to use the palette Bad Idea'18 by Tipleloop.
Canvas Size - Max 300x200.
Colors - Max 18 (19 it you use transparency).
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Required.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 5
Create a piece with an absurd amount of the same object or creatures.
Please try to avoid just copy pasting. Add more in different sizes/distance, different rotations, different points of view, different dimension, etc.
*this is too easy, the palette will be Digital Paper by Snurly 
Canvas Size - Max 300x300.
Colors - Max 5 (4 if you don"t use transparency).
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
We are pausing the Weerdmester Masterclass for one week.
If you don't know yet what's going on yet, here are the rules:
1) Choose an artist you like, you admire, you stalk or you just want to mess with.
2) Create an artwork imitating their style, techniques, colour choices, and/or themes.
3) Pretend they are the author of that piece.
Canvas Size - What would your chosen artist do?
Colors - What would your chosen artist do?
Transparency - What would your chosen artist do?
Animation - What would your chosen artist do?
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 4
Create a piece with only silhouettes.
You have to use the Tea Cakes Palette by Qirlfriend
Canvas Size - Exactly 480x270px.
Colors - Max 12 (use the palette).
Transparency - None.
Animation - None.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 3
Create a sprite or a scene where a thief steals something very unusual/big/clumsy shaped.
You have to use the Clumsy Dozen palette made by windfallapples (glacier).
Canvas Size - Max 200x200.
Colors - Max 16 (12 from the palette and 4 additional colours of your choice [or 3 and transparency]).
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 2
Create an image that looks good on every 90° angle.
Canvas Size - Exactly 100x100px.
Colors - Max 24.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Required (but only 4 frames of the same image rotated by 0°, 90°, 180° and 270°, with each frame duration 1000ms).
This week we are having a portrait challenge.
Recreate the face of someone who just accidentally flash-photographed themselves.
Canvas Size - Exactly 90x160 vertical.
Colors - Max 16.
Transparency - No.
Animation - No.
This is a challenge for everyone who was not satisfied with the Animal Atlas collab's 2 animal limit. We all love drawing animals, so let's do some more. However this is not a fun collab, but a challenge, so prepare to meet some problems that will require creative solving.
February 15th is the World Hippo Day - a third heaviest land mammal after elephant and rhinoceros, and on February 27th we celebrate International Polar Bear Day - the biggest land predator. We decided to combine those two huge observances into one, by combining those two huge animals into one.
Create a sprite of a hybrid of a Hippopotamus and a Polar Bear. You can mix up any of their parts/traits in any way you wish. It can be a half hippo half bear in a mermaid way, a hippo with a white fur, or a polar bear which's mouth opens to 180°. Most likely, the more creative you are, the more attention you will cath in the poll.
Instead of a palette with realistic wildlife depiction capabilities, we give you something challenging. You have to use the 4pi Palette Created by Bo Tie.
Canvas Size - Max 200x150.
Colors - Max 9 (palette + transparency).
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
We are continuing the series that started with Tiny Towers, and followed with Petite Panorama and Diminutive Dungeons.
Mansions are interesting buildings that could be very long and stretch over many floors or wings. You can decide to go vertical OR horizontal as you like, but it should be building interior themed. Who lives in your mansion? A forlorn vampire? A desolate prince? An enchanted countess? Rooms might include kitchen, dining room, bedrooms, hallways, bathrooms, ballroom, office, library, sauna, basement, gym, sunroom, greenhouse, laboratory, dungeon as a few examples.
Canvas Size - Width: Minimum 64px, wider is allowed too. Height: Exactly 16px OR Width: Exactly 16px. Height: Minimum 64px, taller is allowed too.
Colors - Max 16
Transparency - Optional
Animation - Optional
Valentine's Day is soon upon us! And so it is upon game characters. Help them create a Valentine's Day card where they profess their love or admiration. For who? It's up to you! It can even be a generic greeting.
For the Chinese New Year and the Year of the Snake, draw a sprite or scene with an anthropomorphized snake with a certain attitude that you think best suits it in the traditional Chinese palette. Evil, cheerful, slimy, kind,... the choice is yours. And don't forget to evoke a festive atmosphere for this event.
You have to use this palette made by Irena:
Canvas size: max. 120x120px;
Colors: max 13 (provided palette + transparent if needed);
Transparency: optional;
Animation: optional.
Draw and animate a non-winter-related alternative to a snow globe that is using sand instead of snow glitter particles. Any colour of sand - yellow, brown, tan, grey, orange, red, etc. - is valid. Instead of winter related themes as items/structures/characters inside, go for beach, desert or seabed. You can go for any animation from dramatic movement of the sand, as in a sandstorm or tornado, to a simple gentle fall after the globe was shaken.
You have to use the Tofu 20k palette.
Canvas size: Min 100x100, max 240x240
Colours: Max 36 (37 if transparency is used).
Transparency: Optional.
Animation: Required.
This week we will remember David Lynch.
Draw a film frame of your favorite (or chosen by other criteria) scene from the entire David Lynch body of work. You have to add an owl into it. It doesn't have to be a real alive owl. It can be a cartoon on a tv screen, a portrait of an anthropomorphic owl, a trophy on a wall, or a wooden prop on a desk.
You have to use the template made by Mirre:
Canvas size: Exactly 240x240.
Colours: Max 24.
Transparency: None.
Animation: None.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
18th January is the Winnie-the-Pooh day. We will celebrate it by creating completely new and original character designs.
Pixel a sprite of any character from A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh books. It have to be different than original illusrtrations by E. H. Shepard and from Disney adaptations. It can be a sprite for an immaginary game or a cartoon, or even a part of pixel art book illustration. It have to be simple so the colour limit will be set to 10, but you can choose whatever colours you need for your chosen character, or use any palette.
Canvas size: Max 128x128.
Colours: Max 10 (including transparency).
Transparency: Required.
Animation: None.
Have you ever wondered where news icons come from? Whenever a news post (other than these standard weekly challenge posts) gets posted, it's given an icon pulled from the works in the pixeljoint gallery. You can even click the icon to see the artists gallery!
The only requirement is that the piece is exactly 50x50 pixels big. Since it's an unusal size, there are only so many works to pull from, so here is your chance to have your work featured on a future newspost!
Your challenge is to create an icon that can be used for future news posts. Choose one of the following themes:
It is up to you to interpret the theme however you wish. Just remember to give your entry a relevant title so the mods can find it when searching for icons!
Canvas size: Exactly 50x50.
Colours: Max 32.
Transparency: Encoraged, but optional.
Animation: Optional.
Have you started many challenges this year, but couldn't finish them because there were no bonus week added, or from other reasons like life actually happening?
Well, weap no more, becasue this is the challenge many of you are waiting for (some even a whole year).
Finish any unfinished and yet unsubmitted challenge entry from 2024 or make a new entry for a challenge from 2024 you wanted to participate in, but couldn't.
You can make your choice by going to Weekly Challenges and checking the column on the right. The first challenge of the 2024 was "Avatar 1,2,3,4!". Please write in the artwork description which challenge you have chosen, and make sure you follow it's rules and limitations. You can make more than one entries for more than one challenge.
Canvas Size - see the corresponding challenge
Colours - see the corresponding challenge
Transparency - see the corresponding challenge
Animation - see the corresponding challenge
As we're all winding down from the secret santa rush, this your challenge is to pick one of the 2-bit palettes provided bellow and draw a winter landscape, festivities entierly optional.
Canvas size: Max 300x200, min 100x100
Colours: max 4. Choose one of the provided palettes:
Pen n paper 
Hollow 
Wish GB 
Moon Crystal
Transparency: None.
Animation: None.
 |  |  |  |
 | Ganesh Chaturthi (India) August - September |
 | Labor Day (USA) First Monday in September |
 | Mexican Independence Day September 16th |
 | Rosh Hashanah September or October |
| | Yom Kippur Tenth day of the Hebrew month of Tishri (September or October) |
| More holidays | |
