PJs next isometric collaboration has begun on the forum.

This time, we will draw an alien planet! This includes all sorts of aliens, civilized or monster, alien buildings or nests, humans landing and/or exploring, spaceships or UFOs, alien habitat, alien geography (e.g. flying isles), laboratories, and everything sci-fi. Hello aliens, we come in peace!

This project features AdigunPolack's award winning palette.

Read all the details and the project rules HERE.

Lospec.com, a website with tools and resources for people creating restrictive digital art (created by PJer skeddles) now has user accounts!

Customize your profile with your name, bio, avatar and links to your social media, now including your PixelJoint profile.

When you join you'll be added to our Users Directory where you'll be listed with our other members, including your social links. If you mark yourself as a pixel artist, you'll also be included on or Pixel Artists List. More features will be gradually be added to profiles, so reserve your handle to make sure no one else does!

Sign up is quick and easy, just head to Lospec.com and click sign up at the top.

After moulding 1.4 billion crayola crayons, Emerson Moser revealed that he is color blind. Obviously this didn't hold him back! This week, we want you to create a piece that involves something related to at least one of the color names below, using these 8 crayola colors, plus "paper" white (#ffffff).

Canvas Size - Max. 300 x 200 (vertical or horizontal)
Colours - Max. 9 (The colors below)

Transparency - No.
Animation - No.

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

Announcing the results of yet another extemely competitive color palette competition:

First Place - AdigunPolack - AAP-MajestyXVII

Second Place - 0xDB - 2019_04_22_0xDB_01

 

Third Place - Drazile - DRZ17A

 

Honorable Mention - Mordfikosz - 12bit

 

Honorable Mention - DimWiddy - DW17

Honorable Mention - SoloSalsero - SLSO-CLR17

It's been a while, but the time has come to do another challenge that is for all you animators out there!

In order to keep the challenge simple enough for everybody you don't have to animate a large piece. However, your animation must have at least 4 frames with more to be added if you feel confident enough.

The overall theme is yours to choose, just make sure you meet the requirements.

Let's make those pixels move!

Canvas Size - Exactly. 64 x 64
Colours - Max. 16
Transparency - Required.
Animation - Required. (4 frames minimum)

Reddit's /r/PixelArt is hosting another pixel art contest!

The theme is portraits at 128x128 using Adigun Polack's AAP-Splendor128 Palette.

The entries will be compiled into a video like our last contest, and the winner will receive a $40 USD digital gift card for Amazon.com.

For more information on rules and how to submit, check out the thread on reddit.

Thanks everyone, hope to see some great submissions with this one!

This week, we want you to pixel a sprite for a futuristic gun (rifle, pistol, cannon, etc.) that you can expect to see in a shooter game's inventory. You can draw a ballistic weapon, beam gun or just go wild such as a sludge thrower. Side view is suggested but any perspective is ok as long as it can fit in an inventory.

Optional: If your gun has a feature such as acid or electricity, you can animate it.

Canvas Size - Max. 200 x 200
Colours - Max. 20
Transparency - Required.
Animation - Optional.

Retro shooter with old school pixel graphics, 'Foreign Frugglers' now has a Steam page! If you are interested in this project, Fruggle that wishlist button!

A simple challenge, trust me.

Create a sprite of the "Coolest Thing Ever"

Keep it simple and pick a thing that already exist and you think is just too good not to have or go creative and pixel  an all-in-one device suitable for every purpose!

You may even pick the finished thing as your avatar for a week if you want. (10kb limit for avatars!)
 

Canvas Size - Exactly. 64x64

Colours - 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.

We finally have a date for the launch of the new Pixel Joint: September 30, 2019. Some features might be stripped down to start, but the site will be actively developed for the first time in years so any limitations should be temporary. 

ENTER HERE!