Humans are going beyond the solar system to find a new home. Draw a spaceship sprite designed to carry the human race for decades - or even centuries. Of course, imagination is what we're looking for rather than scientific accuracy. The perspective for the sprite is up to you; side, topdown, isometric... anything goes.
Canvas Size - Max 150x150.
Colors - Max 20.
Transparency - Required.
Animation - Optional.
In a world as huge as Hyrule or Red Dead's rendition of the wild west we would easily get lost without a proper map.
This week I want you to create a game map. It doesn't have to be a map of an existing world. You can be as creative as you want.
Canvas Size - Max. 350x350
Colours - Max 16.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.
Fellow PJers, our latest collab PrehISOria has progressed in a record breaking speed and is already 54/98 complete in one and a half months - not to mention it already looks great!
If you haven't (or have) already, don't hesitate to grab a tile now, cause it might be too late before you know it.
Happy ISOing!
Haloween is around the corner! This week also marks Skamocore's resignation from the PJ mod squad after a decade of service. So what is a better time for tentacles?
This week, we want you to draw a scene or sprite that involves tentacles. But only use the colors from Skamocore's epic piece Ten Tentacles.
Canvas Size - Max 100x100
Colors - Max 11 only use colors from this palette.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
It feels soft, looks snazzy and does require a ton of care. I'm talking about fur!
This week I want you to draw a piece (scene, sprite, portrait) that involves fur. From a simple character to a car with pads made of a few foxes, everything goes!
Canvas Size - Max Unlimited
Colours - Max 14.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
This week, we are doing a follow up to this classical weekly challenge. So, we want you to draw an RPG party that consists of exactly 4 sprites, depicting 4 different classes. These classes should be chosen between these, albeit with whatever twists you might dream of:
You must separate sprites from eachother in your canvas using transparency, yet slight overlays for the sake of composition is permitted. Please clearly mention in your description which characters are in your party. And remember: you can make a ww2 team or 50s gangsters as well as classical high fantasy themed party.
Canvas Size - Max 200 x 200.
Colours - Max 32. Including transparency.
Transparency - Required.
Animation - No.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
This week, we want you to draw an isometric tower. Anything from an ancient wizard's tower to a futuristic skyscraper is ok.
Canvas size: Max. 80x180
Colour Count: Max. 15
Transparency: Optional.
Animation: Optional.
This week, we want you to create the attack animation of a sprite (vehicle, human, alien, animal or anything) with only two frames. Make it count! Any type of attack (spell, melee, firearms, ranged, etc.) is ok!
Canvas size: Max. 100x100
Colour Count: Max. 18
Transparency: Required.
Animation: Required.
Has it ever happened to you? Playing with your trusty old NES and suddenly...screen flickering, frames tearing and artifacts all over the place.
PJer and former challenge winner SnugBoat wants you to create "glitch art" which is basically art that looks like the computer screen has crashed or something went wrong with the graphics card.
Here is a piece. Snug pixelled to let you know what he means.
Canvas size: Max. 256x240
Colour Count: Max. 12
Transparency: No.
Animation: Optional.
This weekly is about your favourite historical person.
I want you to take your Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela or Cesar and pixel a sprite that represents this person.
Canvas Size: Exactly. 64x64
Colors: Max. 16
Transparency: Required
Animation. Optional.
PJs next isometric collaboration has begun on the forum.
Our subject this time around is prehistoria! This includes everything prehistoric or, well, ancient. Stone age people, tribal people, dinosaurs (and all beasts of old times), hunting/gathering, evolution, ancient buildings, towns & wonders, lost civilizations, cave life, ancient monsters, ancient aliens and any other kind of fantasy element, as long as you can say this existed in our dark ages.
This project features Night's award winning palette.
Announcing the results of the most neck-to-neck palette comp ever (we needed an extra judge to break the four-way tie).
First Place - Night
Second Place - Drazile
Third Place - Gyhoket
Honorable Mention - AdigunPolack
Not only red doors are meant to be painted black! This week’s challenge is a bit different. I want you to pick somehting that is usually quite colourful and convert it into a dark and obscue version of it. Think of a black flamingo with boots and rivets.
Canvas Size - Exactly. 100x100
Colors - Max. 7.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
Imagine you are locked up in a tiny room with only a chair and a small but clear window. You have been in that room for more than a decade without any contact to the outside.
I want you to depict that window and what is behind it from your view.
Canvas Size - unrestricted.
Colors - Max. 31.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional
Welcome to the world of miniatures and model kits! It is quite the task to take something as huge as an aircraft carrier and make it small enough to fit in your hands.
This week I want you to take something really, really huge and make it really, really tiny.
Canvas Size - Exactly 64x64.
Colors - Max. 13.
Transparency - Required.
Animation - Optional
Pixeljoint is holding another palette competition which is open to everyone and is quite simple.
Submit your 15 color unique + original color palette.
The winning palette will be used in PJs next ISOcollab. Other award winners may also be used in other events and challenges.
Add a rare trophy to your profile.
Competition closes in 2 weeks, August 28, 2018. (CLOSED!)
Forum Thread
Falling asleep isn't easy sometimes. However, if you are lucky enough you might have a wonderful dream that you can recall the next day.
This week I want you to dig deep and depict a scene from a dream/nightmare that you can still remember. Playing cards with Abraham Lincoln or being chased by an elephant that wields swords with its trunk.
Canvas Size - 300x300.
Colors - Max. 32.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Former challenge winner and top-notch pixel artist Fleja2003 has a great weekly for you!
Every person has a character arc. With time, experiences, or better understanding we all change as a person someway. Pixel a drawing that tells a story of this change in a way that is meaningful to you.
Canvas Size - Unrestricted.
Colors - Max. 16
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
This week is a real challenge!
Reflections are hard to pixel, but what do you do if you only got 3 colours to mess with?
I want you to put your pixel skills to the test and depict a scene that has a water reflection in it.
You can pixel what you want just make sure to only use 3 colours!
Canvas Size - Max. 200x200
Colors - Exactly 3
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Sweeter than sweet and a real joy for every child. Candy! This week I want you to pixel your favourite candy, but with a twist! It has to be alive.
Try to add arms, eyes and everything it needs to become a real boy.
Canvas Size - Max. 120x120
Colors - Max. 7
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
It's monday and we are back with another "Tiny" challange.
This week I want you to pixel some sort of building. A skyscraper, a primitive hut or just a shell some sea-based creatures live in.
Canvas Size - Max. 64x64
Colors - Max. 16
Transparency - Required.
Animation - Optional.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Beginning in the 50s sightings of UFOs ord flying saucers haven't declined. Even though footage is mostly blurry and shaky it's still utterly fascinating to watch.
This week I want you to pixel a photo or video footage of an UFO sighting.
Canvas Size - Max. 250x250
Colors - Max. 21
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.
No being is more beautiful than the Greek goddess Aphrodite. She stands for love and beauty like no other.
This week I want you to imagine and depict her in a way you see fit. Portraits, sprites, everything goes.
Canvas Size - exactly. 64x64
Colors - Max. 12
Transparency - Optional
Animation - Optional.
There are almost as many books and stories as people on earth. From Kafka's The Metamorphisis over Lovecraft's dark worlds to Stephen King's insane stories.
This week I want you to take your favourite book/story and pixel something inspired by it. Please make sure to put the title of your book/story in the description.
Canvas Size - Max. 400x400
Colors - Max. 32
Transparency - Optional
Animation - Optional.
We all love beating bosses in video games. We shoot, stab, smash, bludgeon them and make them explode.
This week I want you to pixel a sprite of an already beaten boss character. From humanoids over monsters to machines, everything goes!
Canvas Size - Max. 100x100
Colors - Max. 16
Transparency - Optional
Animation - Optional.
I just love a rainy night...
- Eddie Rabbitt
There's something wonderful and relaxing about rain, especially when it's already dark outside.
For this week's challenge I want you to depict rain. You are free to do whatever you want, Portraits, scenes or even sprites. Just make sure that there's some sort of rain in your pixel.
Canvas Size - Max. 350x350
Colors - Max. 32
Transparency - Optional
Animation - Optional.
Eleven artists took part in the teamwork competition, for which the participants had to submit line art, and then had to finish someone elses line art to which they were randomly assigned!
This competition was judged by PJ members and moderators: Cyangmou, Jinn, Dawnbringer, slym, skeddles, skamocore, pyrometal, Mandrill and myself (Hapiel)
The winners:
First place goes to Jeremy (lines) and Arkan85 (colors)
Second place goes to Nevercreature (lines) and Jeremy (colors)
Third place goes to jackhummer (lines) and JerryPie (colors)
All of the other particicpants receive a participation trophy, check them out here!
Thank you everyone for taking part, and congratulations to the winners! I hope we can organise more interesting collaboration events in the future, feel free to suggest some!
They sting, are green and don't need much water to stay alive. Something that is that resilient must have a lot to talk about.
This week I want you to pixel a cactus that has come alive. You can do a sprite, portrait or basically anything you want, it's up to you.
Canvas Size - Max. 100x100.
Colors - Max. 16.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Picture youself in a white room without any objects in it. You begin to look at the walls around you not being able to see any significant details. Suddenly you feel like you and everything starts moving! Weird colours begin to flash brightly und the ground is shaking more and more with every second that passes.
Then.... boom! A loud noise and the room looks exactly like when you first stepped into it; white walls, clean and silent. However, you notice a weird object in the center of the room. Pixel that object!
Canvas Size - Unrestricted
Colors - Max. 32
Transparency - No
Animation - Optional.
Ob's stürmt oder schneit...
There's certainly some kind of fascination for these huge machines that move across the battlefield striking fear and terror into the enemy's hearts.
This week I want you to pixel a tiny tank that is more than capable of ruling the battlefield. You can pixel any tank or self-propelled gun you want, just make sure it has tracks and looks cool!
Canvas Size - Exactly. 32x32.
Colors - Max. 12.
Transparency - Required.
Animation - Optional.
The I'm A Machine 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 I'm A Machine forum thread for more information.
Insects! They are everywhere.
They bite, sting, scratch or simply run over a surface letting you know that you should really dust off your living room.
This week I want you to pixel some sort of insect, but It doesn't have to be an existing species. You can go crazy and create your very own critter.
Canvas Size - Max. 120x120
Colors - Max. 12.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
In the year 2525.....
Evolution is fine, but wouldn't it be the ultimate goal to become a perfect organism that does not age and die? However, as we are trapped in out meaty bodies there's just no way this is ever going to happen.
But what if we just could plant our consciousness into a machine?
This week I want you to pixel a portrait of yourself or any other human being as a robot! The shinier the better.
Canvas Size - Max. 120x120.
Colors - Max. 8.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.
There is a countless number of species on this planet. In fact, science manages to discover new species every day.
Of all the creatures on this planet almost none is as loved and hated by so many people as felines!
This week I want you to pixel some sort of cat. Pets, tigers, lions or even things that are named after cats; everything goes.
Canvas Size - Exactly 64x64
Colors - Max. 17.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
This week is a little different! I don't want you to pixel a sprite or portrait, no. I want you to put your calligraphy skills to the test.
Pixel your PJ handle with the coolest and freakiest font you can imagine. Letters made out of bone and flesh, liquid or metal parts, everything goes.
Canvas Size - 100 pixels (hight) x unrestricted (width)
Colors - Max. 12.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Not only since the hit series "The Deuce" the 1970s have had some sort of revival.
Excellent music, politics, weird cloths and fantastic movies. There's a lot to relate to when going back almost 50 years.
This week I want you to take something from that time that sticks out to you and pixel it. Just make sure that there's a connection to the 70s.
Canvas Size - Max. 170x170
Colors - Max. 17.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
Unsatisfied with your face? Don't worry! Just put on a mask.
The practice of putting on an artificial face is not new. Nearly every major ethnic group has created some kind of visage.
This week, I want you to pixel a mask of some sort. You can go as crazy as you want!
Canvas Size - Exactly. 32x32
Colors - Max. 12.
Transparency - Required
Animation - Optional.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
It's once again time for our ever popular yearly April Fools Gallery challenge!
For those who do not know the rules yet, the idea is to study the PJ gallery of another pixel artist. Look at the techniques they use, the colours they pick, the subject matters they gravitate towards, etc... Then once you feel like you have a grasp of that person's style, create an image that will fool us into thinking that it's theirs.
Don't forget to mention the name of your chosen pixel artist in your description!
Previous April Fools Gallery challenges can be found here: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Canvas Size - Unrestricted.
Colours - Unrestricted.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
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