CHALLENGE: Young/Old

Depict a portrait of a human character: either a baby/toddler or an elderly person.

If you decide to go with a baby/toddler, use this palette:

If you decide to go with an elderly person, pick this palette:

Canvas Size - Exactly 80 x 80.
Colours - Max 8. Use only colours from your selected palette.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Optional.

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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 Young/Old 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!

@vrine: Pretty good sketch

I might enter this but I am fairly bad at pixel art, maybe these challenges will help me improve.

Christopher Lee (It is susupposed...)


Edited by Nevercreature - 10 March 2014 at 8:04am

Me gusta mucho!

Speedy - Try making the head bigger? Babies have a serious big head syndrome. Also if you are going for realism I'd suggest plumping him up. Babies are lil' fat blobs.

I always go to anatomy reference if I need help.

edit: you don't have to do a full body, if you're just learning especially it might be more approachable to concentrate on a portrait or such. Even most of these veteran artists here aren't trying to do an entire person and can put more into the faces they are making.

Edited by Iscalio - 10 March 2014 at 2:35pm

@Iscalio, I might start just a plain face later. Thanks for the help
@ADrawingMan, looks really nice so far.

@Flonkon
I think he should be more chubby imo. Very good start!

Update

heres a wip

Edited by thebombsauce - 10 March 2014 at 5:42pm

instant win for anyone to pixel jalonso as a baby

@Haam
It is still a bit messy.. I think it could use some refining imho. Especially the green stuff on his cheeks.

@DatMuffinGuy
That's too awesome for PJ to handle. The people here aren't ready for that yet :P

@peyton
Nice to see you participating in this challenge seeing how you're really good with faces. Looking pretty great so far.

(someone please do Clint Eastwood, someone please do Clint Eastwood, someone plea...)

Edited by ADrawingMan - 10 March 2014 at 8:00pm

@Haam There are a lot of brighter shades you're not utilizing, makes the face hard to read. The red around the mouth also reads a bit like a fu manchu to me atm

Some really solid entries in here :)

edit: @Adrawingman I can give you this

Edited by Reo - 11 March 2014 at 1:57am

@Reo
It's- it's gorgeous! (slightly creepy looking since the eyes line up O_O). Someone please do Lee Van Cleef, someone please do Lee Van Cleef, someone plea...

@showtime
Bill Murray unless I'm mistaken?

@Nutcase
I can't really offer much of an opinion but I think those wrinkles above his right eye look a little funny

Here's a new update, close to finishing it I think.

Best viewed at x3 I think

Still fairly new to pixel art, and fairly bad.
What I've got so far:


Edited by MtL - 11 March 2014 at 10:34am

@ADrawingMan
Thanks man, I'll work on it.

edit:


Edited by MtL - 11 March 2014 at 10:53am

Is that sub pixelling

If only there was a darker brown :(



Edited by DatMuffinMan - 11 March 2014 at 7:22pm

@Flonkon
I think his waste should extend more. Since his baby fat is pushing against his shorts they should expand a bit. It looks a bit weird since he's got kind of a big tummy but a tiny waist ;P His arms also look a bit chickenish, here's an edit I tried to make for you


@DatMuffinMan
It looks like RedRidingHood ;)

@DeathByChris
I love everything about that.

UPDATED! He now looks like an old man! Still not done though, some tweaking on the ear is needed (any suggestions on the right ear would be really appreciated, I've tried lots of things but I can't seem to make it look right)


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EDIT:

Gave him some texture, I was also fooling around with a background just for fun but I think I'm just going to keep it plain and simple ;P

Edited by ADrawingMan - 12 March 2014 at 10:46am

Very nice, guys. Although at this point, using the unoriginal baby palette would be relatively original :)

@ Mrmo Tarius: That last one is really great. Good use of colours with the bright background and the green. Although at a glance he looks noseless. Maybe it's just me.

I think I may be better off trying an elderly one instead, not quite sure.

@ADrawingMan
Thank you for the advice I knew it looked weird but my eye is not trained enough to see this yet ;-) Okay I changed it like you did but i kept the left arm I think now it looks like he is a bit twisted.
One arm behind and the other a bit in front of him. I know the new hand is not that good i'll try to get this part better though there is enough time to work on it.
Is there anything else I could do ?

Maybe give him some icecream ...



Edited by Flonkon - 13 March 2014 at 10:11am

Been watching these for a while. You guys can really put out some interesting results that are often times completely unexpected. Thought I'd attempt to join this week while I've got a few minutes to see if I could even do this. Here's my first shot at it. I definitely have a lot of room for improvement. But it's fun.



Edited by SporkFuMaster - 13 March 2014 at 11:41am

Thanks ADrawingMan. Hopefully I get some time to add some more, especially with the BG. As for the challenge palette, I saved the original image of the color palette for the elderly person and sampled directly from there. Unless there's a different way to get the colors, as far as I know, I'm using the challenge palette for that image.

ADrawingMan - Woah I am loving that smoke! Marvelous entry :)
SporkFuMaster - It's amazing how you managed to make this palette look so natural, looking forward to updates.

This is what I came up with, hopefully I will have some time to work on it.


Update - Decided to change him into kamesennin


Edited by SoraAkihiru - 14 March 2014 at 4:34pm

Started a portrait of this guy :



I'm about an hour in or so.

Here is my WIP