CHALLENGE: Deep Sleeper

Show a character sleeping or napping while some sort of activity/event unfolds around them. It could be anything from a cat knocking over furniture to an alien invasion.

Canvas Size - 200 x 200.
Colours - Max 32.
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 Deep Sleeper 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 skamocore - 18 May 2015 at 12:01am

This is going to be an homage to Goya's "The sleep of reason creates monsters" if I get to finish it, starring some of the creatures I remember from some old nightmares of my own. Haven't done much yet, obviously.

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Edited by cmmrc - 22 May 2015 at 11:11am

Reminds me more of a Ythian or Starspawn than a Shoggoth to be nitpicky; I doubt an entire Shoggoth would fit under a standart human house, yet alone bed. ;)
I also assumed he came in from outside, feels conflicting with him poking out from, well, under the bed. Maybe either close the window or maybe make him get in from outside?

spent all day on it and then realised I didnt like what I did with it... x- x but now I think I'm making a little progress... less is more sometimes I guess XD

edit: so the trouble was that I pixelled the whole ground texture seperately to keep a tight control on the colours, but then realised it was a realistic sort of ground, and not the over light, bleached type of ground you see in the series, so I went back to my old one but initially I'd only really defined the top half of that ground and left the bottom unworked planning to crop it not realising we had to stay this size. Then I had the idea to put a text box from that era in, which perfectly hides that area, although, if I can get time to fix the bottom, I'd like to learn to animate the text box appearing in a smooth manner and maybe the text (I know the text animation, but would like a better transition for the box than just "boom appear").



going to redo the tree/bushy area with an extra green so its not so sparse and considering maybe the last colour being a dark navy blue to help define the snorlax more (realised that jigglypuff is simple and outlined like in the games, almost as if it's a moving part in the picture, but the snorlax is not).

last, adding texta scribbles and some textas on the ground beside it.

have attempted to add highlight and shadow shading to snorlax but having so trouble with that, especially the highligt, I know what colours to use and they suit but the positioning is annoying and I dont think dithering really helps him to stand out as a pokemon figure, but he's quite large so... hmm

Edited by clefairykid - 22 May 2015 at 3:53pm

Too late started to work, but tomorrow I`ll try to polish it..


Update (№5):



Edited by andylittle - 24 May 2015 at 2:34am