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

Secret Santa gifts will be revealed on Twitch 27th December at 15:00 CET


https://www.twitch.tv/gawr1pixel/schedule?seriesID=9d1f9762-0cd2-4af1-b7b9-d63258d198ea

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.

Whenever you are working on your Secret Santa gift or not, this is a nice little relaxing challenge to make right now.

Draw and animate a tiny sprite of a character that brings presents during the winter holiday time. Now what that character will be is entirely your choice. In Poland, where I live, this situation is quite confusing. It is traditionally a Catholic country, where presents are given by a Catholic bishop, St. Nicholas, on 6th December (usually golden robes, but also purple or red). But Poland also was a part of the Eastern Bloc, so we also had Dziadek Mróz (usually with blue robes or red), giving presents on New Year's Eve. We also had our pagan traditions long before Christianity took over, so we had Gwiazdor (sometimes a tan furry costume), and of course eventually the American Santa (red and white robes) became most popular, like everywhere else, giving presents on Christmas Eve. But in some regions, presents are given by an angel, or gnomes, or baby Jesus. I'm aware that in Spain presents are brought by 3 kings on 6th January. I would love to see and read about any other variations. You can draw any of those, but you are also allowed to draw an anti-Santa like the Grinch (or the Devil in some regions). Let's make the most diverse "Santa" pixel art catalogue on this side of the internet.

You have to use the Merry Mountain palette by Maber.



This list might be helpful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christmas_and_winter_gift-bringers



 

Canvas size: Max 16x16.

Colours: Max 13 (palette + transparency).

Transparency: Required.

Animation: Required (min 3 frames).

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9bvugoNXTs

We are going to finish the Sushiween with a bang (hopefully).

Draw an avatar portrait of the Nerd as a sushi master. The PJ Nerd is an icon, but the PJ Nerd is also an idea. You can gender swap, race swap, or species swap the Nerd however you like. The colours are for you to choose, but the limit is 16.

Canvas Size - 64x64.
Colors - Max 16.
Transparency - No.
Animation - No.