Chain of Challenges, episode 24.
You might have noticed that some pixel artists sometimes practice by studying classical oil paintings, which basically means redrawing them using their own colours and techniques. We will be doing exactly that, but with a twist, because this week's challenge is combined with the weird palette series. However, there's an additional twist: this time, you'll be creating your own unique palette.
Paint a study of an oil painting of your choice, that is or includes a landscape, from before the 20th century (before 1900), using only 12 colours chosen by you from the provided natural pigment palette.
Become an old master for a week. Build your own palette, perfect from the task, from the available resources, and paint us your (copied) masterpiece.
List of colours to choose from sorted alphabetically:
Azurite 4A91E2
Alizarin Crimson E32636
Bone Black 3B3C36
Burnt Umber 635147
Cadmium Yellow FFF600
Carbon Black (charcoal) 0C0A00
Carmine 960018
Cinabrese (Venetian Red) C80815
Cobalt blue 0047AB
Crimson Lake (Kermes) DC143C
Dragonsblood 864143
Egyptian Blue 1034A6
Indian Yellow E3A857
Indigo 00416A
Lead White F8F8FF
Lime White eae3d2
Madder Lake B53F3F
Malachite 0BDA51
Mummy Brown 824b27
Naples Yellow FADA5E
Orpiment FFD700
Prussian Blue 003153
Red Hematite 6D2114
Red Lead (Minimum) FF4101
Red Ochre 913831
Rose Madder E32636
Saffron F4C430
Sap Green 507D2A
Sepia 704214
Sienna 882D17
Sinopia CB410B
Smalt 003399
Tyrian Purple 66023C
Ultramarina 3F00FF
Verdeter (Terra-Verte/Green Earth) 6E8B3D
Verdigris 43B3AE
Vermilion (cinnabar) E34234
Vine Black 302E2C
Yellow Ochre CC7722
Maya Blue 73C2FB
And the palette in the same order:
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Chain of Challenges, episode 23.
Draw two 64x200 horizontal landscapes (one above the other on one 200x128 canvas). The topic of the first one is completely open. The second one should be exactly the same landscape, but after a cataclysm or apocalypse, may it be the result of a zombie virus outbreak, a nuclear war, global warming, or an ice age. The time gap doesn't matter, it may be millions of years or just a decade. The most important thing is devastation or any other types of visible change as a result of human activity or the power of nature.
You have to use the Nature-20 Palette by Orbitron.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for June 2024.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
Chain of Challenges, episode 22.
Draw a portrait on an 80x100px (vertical) canvas, and then draw another one next to it, with the same character, but this time including make-up. Yes, it may be a clown makeup, but it may also be wedding makeup, war paint, artistic body paint on the face, or makeup that pretends the "without makeup" look. Make sure that the first portrait is actually showing how the face would look, with all the facial characteristics some people call "imperfections", but we will be calling them "perfections" in this challenge.
If you have no time this week, you are allowed to copy the first portrait and edit it. If you are ambitious, you can draw the character in different circumstances, on different background, in different lighting, and from a different angle.
You have to use the Please for the love of god don't use this garbage Palette by Zoxv.
We will be aiming towards a "relaxed" realistic style. That doesn't mean photorealistic, but the animals need to be at least anatomically correct as much as possible and have mostly correct proportions. We will not be accepting anthropomorphic bipeds in clothes, or kawaii. But some cute facial features (like smile or bigger eyes) are allowed and encouraged. We are also require animals to be chosen from currently existing on planet Earth. This mean that this time we will not be accepting any extinct animals (for example dinosaurs) and fantastic, fictional or hypothetical animals (dragons, unicorns, aliens, cryptids, etc.).
We hope that the whole collab will look coherent; so the proportions in sizes between the animals will need to be somewhat realistic. We will not be able to correctly represent the size of an ant and a whale, but they need to make sense, so: ant < rabbit < wolf < elephant < whale. We will be sorting your choices into canvas size categories - the smallest will be 32x32px for animals like insects, small birds, rodents etc., and 160x160 for the biggest ones like elephant. This could change as we might need to adapt while the collab develops; but only by including additional rectangle canvases as needed using 32x32 blocks.
Everyone is required o use the Comfy52 palette made by bess. And to add "white" outline made with the brightest colour from the palette - #e5efef. You can do only one "white" outline or double outline with "black" (#1a1f2e) outline or selective, creative outline under it (for example, if your animal is a snow owl or a polar bear). Whatever outline option you choose, the most external outline have to be full "white".
As the collab progresses, we will compile a list of species already used, sorted in alphabetical order, to make it easier to join.
Rules summary:
- choose your animal species form existing, earthly animals;
- ask mods if it is still available (or check the list), and if it is specific enough;
- ask mods which canvas size category is your animal;
- provide a WiP within a week, and a finished entry in a month to keep your species claim,
- draw only a non animated sprite with no background, using the provided palette;
- aim for the "relaxed" realistic style, as far as you can, and if you approach any struggle, feel free to ask for help on discord # animal-atlas-collab channel.
Examples made by PJ staff:
- Sea otter by Irenaart on 64x64 canvas.
- Black and rufous sengi by Gawrone on 32x32 canvas.
- Vangunu giant rat by The Nerd on 64x32 canvas.
- Aldabra giant tortoise by Carl the PJ Discord bot on 96x64 canvas.
- Silver gull by Vrine on 64x64 canvas.
Let's use our pixels to show how beautiful and diverse the animal kingdom is.
BONUS:
This is a group picture to which you may bring a companion. Do you have a spouse, a partner, a sibling, parent, kid or a best friend who loves pixel art and animals, but doesn’t pixel themselves? Or maybe does, but doesn’t have a PJ account? You are allowed to chose and draw a second animal to represent them. However, you may only do one extra, and you will not get a second trophy for it.
Animated avatar challenge.
Draw a portrait (as usual, any form of a head will count) with a laughing expression and animate it. Any type of laughter will be accepted. It can be a genuine laugh as a joke, but it can also be a cruel laugh after seeing someone fail or the full-on evil laughter of a cartoonish villain. It can also be nervous laughter, stress-related laughter, or etiquette laughter. You can choose whatever type of laughter you wish for or will find easier to capture.
There is no upper limit on frame count, but drawing only 2 frames is not allowed.
You have to use the Funny31 palette by archer.
The Tapacron pixel chronicle is six months old! 🥳 Thanks to everyone who participated and left wonderful drawings! Let it continue this way. As is our tradition, we are publishing new time-lapse.
Let us remind the rules for those who have forgotten them or are seeing the project for the first time:
👾 The canvas grows by 1 pixel every day starting from January 1, 2024.
👀 When someone colors a pixel, others see it in real-time.
⏱ If a pixel isn't recolored for over 30 days, it freezes and stays that color forever. Pixels not frozen are marked with dots.
🤏 To draw, zoom in on the canvas.
🌈 Drag the palette for more colors.
💉 Eyedropper tool: pick color by long-pressing the desired pixel on the canvas
😎 No need to register; all pixels are anonymous.
The project link: https://www.tapacron.com/
Chain of Challenges, episode 20.
After the balloon animals, we will make some clowns. Draw three sprites of clowns as an RPG party. Each one needs to differ by class, species, role, outfit, equipment, etc. If you wish to be creative with your classes instead of choosing a warrior, an archer, and a wizard, this is an article that can make things easier.
As always, you are not limited to fantasy; you can choose any theme you wish.
To make it more challenging, we will be using the Joker-6 palette by Noctfrej.
The history of RPG and similar challenges for your convenience:
Animal RPG Party
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
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