Show everyone how your pixel chops have developped since you have started your Pixel Joint journey. Take the first artwork submitted to your gallery and do it all over again, but better.

I understand that someone's first artwork might be too difficult, too big, too time consuming for one week, or the opposite -  it is not interesting or challenging enough. In that case it is allowed to choose the second one.

If you think that todays you would draw the same thing on a bigger or smaller canvas - change it for the better. If you find your past colour choices terrible - update the palette. If nowadays you are better at palette control - make it smaller. If it was a portrait of your boyfried, but you have a hotter boyfried now - draw the new one in a similar way. Anything from what this past artwork was capturing, that had changed for the better (no matter if it's your pixel skills or your topic choices), need to be reflected in this new version, but it still have to be obvious that this is a new approach at that past artwork and not a new, completely unrelated piece.

Also, if that piece was an entry to a challenge, and you would want to show a more impressive entry to that challenge with todays experience, than you have to follow the rules of that challenge.



Link the chosen (first or second) artwork in the description of your challenge entry, to make our lifes easier.

Canvas size: Exactly as your chosen artwork, or "better".
Colours: Exactly as your chosen artwork, or smaller.
Transparency: As your chosen artwork.
Animation: As your chosen artwork.

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

It's time to vote for the latest pixel art challenge: CGAlaxy.

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The Iconic Logo 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 Iconic Logo forum thread for more information.

We haven't got any vehicle drawing challenges, nor any CGA challenges for a while. An obvious conclusion would be this trajectory:

Draw a scene or a mockup which includes a space ship and a cosmic background, using a CGA or CGA'ish palette of your choice.

The canvas is a standard, but if you find it too big or too intimidating, go for a small ship and lots of stars or even the vastness of an empty space.

Criteria for the palette to be accepted:

1) Need to have 4 colours.

2) Need to have "CGA" in it's name.

3) Need to be published somewhere online (Lospec, Rejected Palettes, Twitter, etc.) before the launch of this challenge - that is before 19th june 2023.

This challenge is a galactical successor of CGAngster and CGAmbl3rs challenges. You can also find palettes there.



Canvas size: Exactly 320x200.
Colours: Exactly 4 (check the palette criteria)
Transparency: No.
Animation: No.

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

It's time to vote for the latest pixel art challenge: Iconic Logo.

VOTE NOW!

The Iconic Desktop 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 Iconic Desktop forum thread for more information.

At the end of the last millenium there were two things immediately indicating that you are a stylish nerd - metal band t-shirts and custom desktop icons. This week we are going to make the former... kind of.*

We are not designing a t-shirt but a logo.

Make a metal logo of a PJ handle/real name of yourself or a PJ friend. If you find all the PJ names uninspiring you can also use a name of an Ikea product**. Allowing any possible word from any language or inventing your own would not make a lot of a challenge, so it is forbidden. Also using an existing bands name is not allowed, because we want the designs to be 100% original and free from bias.

If you have no idea about metal band logos, don't worry and just try ho have fun with it. Yes, one can can treat this very seriously (the history and theory of this design niche is gradually becoming less of a source of mainstream laughs, and more of a topic of in depth analysis), but you can also go for a very ironical or parodic aproach (becasue bands do that aswell), and I promise no one will get offended... I will make sure of that!

If you wan't to get some familiarity with the topic, but have no time to search for articles, and sort out which are legit and which are just biased misinformation, watch this 20 minute video. It is very informative, while still being entenrtaining in a Youtube way.

So prepare your best lightnings, blood drops, skulls, branches, horns, wires, claws, razors, crosses, monsters, bat wings, spider webs, nerves, forests, body parts, gothic architecture details, and gothic fonts, but also sport fonts, and any fonts actually, and make a cool metal logo.

Very similar ideas used in heavy music logos, like grafitti stylised or robotic, mechanical, technical stuff, have been used in many other genres of music (hip-hop, electronic, etc.), so please don't feel restricted by this metal inspired general idea of a challenge. I'm sure there are plenty of ways to participate even for people who find metal music or aesthetics repulsive.

Everyone are very welcome.

Canvas Size - Max 666x666.

Colors - Max 11.

Transparency - Optional.

Animation - No.

* This challenge idea is a completely accidental result of what I wrote in the previous challenge description. I had no intention for doing this, but "why the hell (nomen omen) not". I promise we will return to standard challenges next week.

** This is inspired by an online quiz "Ikea or Death" where you had to guess if a word is a name of an Ikea product or a metal band. Unfortunately it is not available anymore, but you probably could find videos of people taking it years ago.

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

It's time to vote for the latest pixel art challenge: Iconic Desktop.

VOTE NOW!

The Go Nuts! 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 Go Nuts! forum thread for more information.

At the end of the last millenium there were two things immediately indicating that you are a stylish nerd - metal band t-shirts and custom desktop icons. This week we are going to make the latter.

Draw a custom set of minimum nine, 32x32 icons for a 90's/00's desktop. The list of mandatory icons includes:
 

1) My Computer.

2) Recycle Bin (empty).

3) Recycle Bin (full).

4) Inbox/ mailbox/ e-mail client app (all the envelope stuff).

5) Internet/ network/ browser (like an earth planet icon, but custom safari or mozilla icons do count).

6) At least one drive (any storage device modern or retro).

7) At lealst one folder (clean or special one like system folder, font folder, printer folder...).

8) At least one file (txt, doc, avi, bmp, font, wav...).

9) At least one system integral app (like notepad, paintbrush, minesweeper, calculator...).

You can make more than that but no duplicates. For example, separate icons for two different browsers are allowed, but not two different icons for the same browser.

The icon set have to be cohesive styllistically or thematically. If you choose isometric, handdrawn or made out of stone, than all icons have to follow that choice. If you choose a theme like Star Wars than it will not be enough to make a Death Star as your internet planet icon. You will have to make all of the icons Star Wars related or stylised, and still somehow make what they represent readable.

 

Canvas Size - Min 100x100.

Colors - Unrestricted.

Transparency - Required (to separate the icons).

Animation - No.

 

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

It's time to vote for the latest pixel art challenge: Go Nuts!.

VOTE NOW!

The Mirrepeople Portraits 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 Mirrepeople Portraits forum thread for more information.