CHALLENGE: Finding Unusual Beauty

Beauty is about more than being skinny, having perfect skin and hair, ripped muscles or big breasts, more than being new, shiny and perfectly formed. Portray a person or object from every day life that does not conform to classic standards of beauty, but in a beautiful way.

• 32 colours max
• Transparency & animation optional
• NO canvas restriction

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CHALLENGE RULES

• Participants have until this upcoming Sunday at midnight (12AM Pacific) to submit their entry (strict). Don't forget to check the 'Submit to weekly challenge' checkbox.
• Only new pixels allowed.
• Open to all members.
• Posting WIPs in this thread or in new threads in the WIP section is highly encouraged, but ONLY SUBMIT YOUR FINAL ART.

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CHALLENGE JUDGING

• Every Sunday at midnight (12AM Pacific) the previous week's entries are judged.
• Every week a new voting poll will be posted for previous week's entries.
• Winner announced the following week.

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CHALLENGE PRIZES/GOODIES

• Top three finishers will receive an award displayed in your PJ gallery profile for all to see and envy.
• Top finisher gets to call the following week's challenge...sweet.
• 'Participation' ribbons will be given for all who enter.
• No matter what happens you get challenged :)

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CHALLENGE VOTING

Vote now for your favorite pixelart in this week's challenge!

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CHALLENGE AWARDS

The Finding Unusual Beauty 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!



Edited by sedgemonkey - 28 May 2007 at 12:23am

will be more than a face.

very nice setzer

updated

Hi,

Here's the lineart of my contrib :



Any c&c welcommed !

jjcc

Stupid ens! Now is my idea not origional any more  
and I have to think of a new one..

I love everything, Ens, except the roots. There should be lots of smaller tendrils extending out from what are currently the smallest thickness of root. But then again, I don't know if you're just trying to get everything to a similar level of completion and this is already on its way.

My WIP:




Edited by ZeroFive1 - 28 May 2007 at 6:01pm

A geek wearing slippers on the phone watching TV.

mine = still a WIP an anorexic GIRL

i dont think you guys are getting the challenge...  its not pixeling something that is ugly alone:
"Portray a person or object from every day life that does not conform to classic standards of beauty, but in a beautiful way"

you need to pixel something that is usually not beautiful, but make it beautiful. 

btw, update edit:




Edited by Ensellitis - 29 May 2007 at 4:57am

Ens, that is amazing. The flower looks much better now! And the stones are perfect!

Update :



I hope I understood the challenge the right way :-/

For me, this teddybear looks old and dirty but for his owner, it's the most beautiful object in the world.

I think I should work more on the "dirty" and "bad" aspect of the bear.

Any C&C welcomed.

update

Edited by Kfuchoin - 29 May 2007 at 8:32am

nearing completion (yeah, right...)

good point.  thanks duke larwick or mustarder.

if i was "pointing" that at you, i would have said your name

wish: Looks good, though I'm not sure about the feet. Sitting on the floor like that, the top of my foot rests on the floor (so the tops of all my toes would be touching the floor) and my heel points up. So you wouldn't be seeing too much of the far foot and the closer one would show more achillies tendon than ankle bone in the outline, and the shape of the foot would taper pretty smoothly into a wedge shape, since the ball of the foot isn't very thick at the outside. 

Update again :


Maybe I should add a background ? I don't know...

Any C&C still welcomed...

thanks :) i considered animating it.  maybe when i'm done with it, i will give it a go if i have the time.  trying to get all the small details perfect right now has been a bitch though lol

My old portret was really POOR,, so i started all over again.

and this is the result: ( stil WIP )

Right eye (our left) is too low.