Pixel Art Challenge: Avatar 1,2,3,4!


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I hope everyone remembers this challenge, recently reminded by olive.

We are going to make a sequel with a twist.

Draw a portrait (it doesn't have to be you, it doesn't have to be human either, but it has to be a head of some sort, so animals, robots, monsters, and anthropomorphic objects do count) on a standard PJ avatar square 64x64px, using only 4 colors of your choosing (you can use a ready-made palette from Lospec or somewhere else), but each one of them has to be used on 10%, 20%, 30%, and 40% of the canvas, respectively.

This is the only change from the previous challenge, but a very important one. So, instead of 25% + 25% + 25% + 25%, we are going with 10% + 20% + 30% + 40%.

We will be using this tool to check if the condition is met, and you can use it too if you do not have any other way. Please make sure of this, especially if you submit on sunday evening, becasue we will most certainly be checking last minute pieces on monday morning, and this will be too late for fixes.

As previously, there will be +/- 1% margin of error allowed for each colour.

And of course you can make as many avatar entries as you wish.
 

Canvas Size - exactly 64x64px.
Colours - exactly 4 (one on 10%, second on 20%, third on 30%, and fourth on 40% of the canvas).
Transparency - no.
Animation - no.



 



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

Posted by gawrone @ 1/15/2024 07:07  |    6

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pixelglade (Level 2 Tulip) @ 1/19/2024 22:59

This was a pretty fun exercise using the tool to restrict the amount of the palette.


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gawrone (Level 11 Pixeljoint) @ 1/16/2024 11:40

Thank you for sharing your useful calculations!


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olive (Level 4 Peony) @ 1/16/2024 00:38

For those wondering, there's no way to get exactly 10, 20, 30, and 40% on a 64x64 canvas (4096 is not divisible by 10), so if you want to get within 1% of these values you'd need each of the following values within 40 pixels:

  • Color 1: 10% - 410 px, so between 370 px and 450 px
  • Color 2: 20% - 819 px, so between 789 px and 859 px
  • Color 3: 30% - 1229 px, so between 1189 px and 1269 px
  • Color 4: 40% - 1638 px, so between 1598 px and 1678 px

Where the bolded numbers on the left are the closest you can get to 10, 20, 30, and 40% respectively, and the two bolded numbers on the right are the range of values that get you that percent with a 1% margin of error.

Hope this helps!


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olive (Level 4 Peony) @ 1/16/2024 00:01

I loved doing this challenge so I'm absolutely gonna try it again lmao


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Taks (Level 6 Chrysanthemum) @ 1/15/2024 07:32

cool challenge


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Umbohr (Level 7 Merfolk) @ 1/15/2024 07:17

Nice let's gooo (By the way there is a script for Aseprite that shows you the % of each colours used : https://github.com/haloflooder/Aseprite-Scripts/blob/master/Scripts%20(LUA)/pixel_stats.lua very usefull for this challenge)


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