This is a lovely image doing so many interesting things with the colour palette.

This really stands out. You've got the colour to really pop and the shading and textures are amazing.

This is such a strong image. Love how the green in the antialiasing tips the colour into just slightly off for that horror feel.

The story-telling here is great. It's got a real sense of foreboding. You can see its a nice clear day but there's all the elements to come together into something horrifying.

This is amazing. You've absolutely squeezed every last drop of colour from that palette.

@SeDiceBisonte Thanks. I do love my big swirly designs.

I'm in! The last one was great. It hardly seems like a year since it ended.   

@Constantini thanks! Getting them looking like three dimensional objects but still fluffy clouds is definitely a challenge.

@Umbohr Wow, I hadn't even thought! If they were tanks that would have been a bit dark, wouldn't it?

@yuanhei thanks. When I started I had the perspective a bit wrong and I only ended up altering it to make sure the cloud area was 3/4 of the picture. It worked out very well for the believability of image.

This has got to be the least calming version of clouds possible! Love how the carefully chosen palette really emphasizes the force of the explosion, especially how the grey is subtly tinted towards green for maximum colour contrast.

beautiful. I love how this is almost like an abstract fractal pattern but the addition of the plane immediately resolves it into clouds.

Love the purple blue palette here. Really captures the feel of the cold light of early morning as the sunrise just starts to hit.

@Trigonomicon yes! I'm very much a fan of the swirly cloud.

@SeDiceBisonte thanks, I've been looking at some of the amazing cloudscapes this summer where I live. Around about golden hour you get some really interesting lighting effects. This pixel joint challenge came along right on time.

@Irenaart glad you like it.

@Theoden Thanks. Really loved Toby Dixon's Niddhog 2 sprites.

@Cyangmou Thanks so much for the advice! Now I'm thinking adding dark volumetric shadows coming from the asteroids and the main character and really upping the intensity on the rim light would have solved the supernova problem and  then that's an entirely new composition... I'm going to have to try it out later.

@CELS Oh good! I generally think having standards is good for an art community. I'm getting a little sloppy only posting my pixel art on twitter these days. Looking at it again I could certainly do more to make the edges nicer curves. I might try an antialiasing pass when I have a free hour or two. I'm kicking myself because I should have waited a day or two to assess it before submitting instead of posting it after I'd just completed it. 

@CELS No I don't think that's elitist. If you think it's veered a bit too far into oekaki territory then I might take it down. PJ has it's own rules for what counts as pixel art and I do think they should be rigorously applied. I might cut it down to the head where all the detail is which is pretty regorously edited if you think that would work? Though I did spend quite a lot of time manually giving a lot of blob edges nice even curves :)

The title is supposed to be a three way pun. She's burned out (exhausted). But also the sun's going nova in the background and so everything is in a kind of wibbly heat haze. But also the overexposed highlights are 'burned out' where the top level of white shows instead as slightly darker cyan. 

@Rewind Thanks! Kind of oil painty was something I was going for, so I'm glad it reads like that!

This is really great! It absolutely captures the feeling of a little island of landscape just catching the evening light through a little gap in the clouds.Wonderful colour choice and the atmospheric perspective on the background andscape works so well.

Wonderful! It's so minimal in terms of materials but beautifully rendered. I especially love the almost invisible red  fill light on the panels that just makes them pop in 3D.

@gawrone I'm always happy to hear artists talking about what art means to them. Much appreciate the kind words of encouragement also.

@gawrone I don't know if the clouds are exactly accurate (I mean, they definitely aren't) but I wanted to capture that thing where the sun is directly behind the clouds and it shines through in a width band around the edges.