ive been looking to do something in 2 colours for a while now. I got kind of excited when i read the topic. this is what im working on so far
Im a good 2 hours+ in Already

He owned us!
You have a good head start there dude! so make sure you get into the top 3!!!

Half way tru m8ie m8s, any suggestions of colors?

EDIT: Still have alot more work to deal with on the house, the ground and the sky.


Edited by Slemsvamp. - 10 December 2008 at 8:35am

Could use some atmosphere - something to unite the objects.  It's also very dark, I would use one light color and one dark so it's not so hard to see.  

Hi, I'm posting mi WIP


Tell me what you think :D
Do you think the sun will look good with the dithering all over the contour?




PS:Sorry for my bad english:S

That tree and house look great :D

A very WIPpy second one:

Updated WIP - should really have been working! Please let me know what you think.

Edited by benbrunton - 09 December 2008 at 10:20am

I would put to work at it...

Im entering this,not only is the theme awesome,it's going to take some real effort if im going to have a chance at winning.*Looks at geminoid*

Oh well. Gonna give this a try.

How do you make the dotted textureas easy?

Pixel by pixel takes so much time. T-T

But then its not really Pixel art.

Ive done it the hard way, and its really not that hard of a way. Some diagonal lines at 1 pt and a couple of choice pixels in key locations will give you one of many different tones

Thats some goood stuff.

I totally agree with geminoid. The idea is to do it without special tools. Just basic (MS Paint) tools.



I don´t know what I did but this is my work, where I have to submit it?


Edited by Antiboton - 11 December 2008 at 4:11pm

You've got to be kidding me. It doesn't take skill to fill a 100x100 pixel area with a checkerboard pattern by hand... it just takes masochism. Someone's not less of a pixel artist if they use Photoshop and define patterns to fill large areas... they're just being practical. If you want to claim that filling large areas with a repeating pattern isn't the best aesthetic choice, I'll agree with you most of the time, though e.g. the mountains in the background of your piece are nice, despite consisting of a repeating pattern. However, a finished piece is what it is; the means used to produce it don't enter into it if the final result is identical.

Pixel art just means using a restricted palette and paying attention at the pixel level, rather than painting and smudging or using auto-aliasing.

Do you really think that people doing the art for the old Nintendo games, or modern DS games didn't use whatever tools were at their disposal to get the results they did?

For that matter, most of these games use *gasp* tilesets and spritesheets. Are the goombas and blocks in Mario not "pixel art" because they're reused throughout the game and not drawn again by hand each time?

Edited by AlexWeldon - 12 December 2008 at 6:47am

By "restricted palette," I meant that you're using discrete colours that you choose manually. It goes hand-in-hand with not using auto-aliasing. E.g. if you use a soft brush in Photoshop, you'll get all sorts of different colours around the edges due to aliasing. If you're doing pixel art, though, you smooth out edges by either doing your own aliasing with a few chosen colours, or by dithering. Chances are, your finished piece is going to come out well under 256 colours even if you're not intentionally limiting yourself.



When I was talking to one of the art directors at EA Mobile, he asked me if I did "pixel art." He didn't ask me if I was a "spriter." I think industry people consider Mario, etc. to be "pixel art."

Anyway, my feeling about art is that if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. If two finished pieces are indistinguishable, they're the same... the tools you used don't enter into it. If you want to exclude repeated elements from your definition of "pixel art," you can, but you have to exclude pieces where elements were repeated manually as well as with computer assistance. What does it matter if I drew the same grass tile identically twice by hand, or copy/pasted it?

Edited by AlexWeldon - 12 December 2008 at 9:14am

Tryin it out. Not used to dithering...

when it all comes down to it, pixel art is the placing of every individual pixel. and saying that you can use photoshop to give you a texture which you can use later to help you; is yes cheating because the rest of us are doing it properly pixel by pixel and you are cheating by getting other programs to help do your work for you.

and wheather your going to redraw it all or not. it doesn't matter you should do it in paint anyway, from scratch. that way your not cheating. and anyway the point of challenges is to help people improve on areas they aren't already good at so really your just cheating your self.


Edited by x-death - 12 December 2008 at 9:28pm

Actually, most people say MS Paint is a better program for pixel art than Photoshop. Unfortunately, I'm a professional artist, and professional artists tend to use Macs, for which MS Paint doesn't exist.

For the last time:

a) I don't usually use Define Pattern when doing pixel art, because I work small, as you see above, and I don't like the repetitive look it gives. If I do use it, I go back and edit bits here and there to remove the repetition. I was merely pointing out that if one WANTED to do something like that piece with the house and the tree, it's a hell of a lot quicker to do it my way than to fill that sky with a uniform checkerboard pattern by hand. Furthermore, doing it by hand would NOT require or help develop any skills whatsoever, it would merely be a waste of time.

b) If you bothered to listen to me, Photoshop is not "giving" you anything when you use Define Pattern. All it does is copies the selected region which you drew yourself, pixel by pixel, so you can then paste it repeatedly over another area by choosing Fill. Nothing you couldn't do easily in MS Paint... it just takes you 5 seconds in PS instead of 20 seconds in MS Paint.

c) Anyway, you're all cheating too, since real pixel art is called a "mosaic," and has been done with ceramic tiles and mortar for the last few thousand years. If you really believe that the point is to do things in the most primitive way possible, you shouldn't be using a computer in the first place.

Edited by AlexWeldon - 13 December 2008 at 7:52am

This is the first time I enter the challenge, where should I submit my work?
Anyway, that's it^
http://www.pixeljoint.com/files/icons/full/pim.png

Edited by Sev_4 - 13 December 2008 at 8:53am

I'd keep the lighter horizon line but take away the line 'round the moon itself

Edited by Jeremy - 13 December 2008 at 1:17pm

Make an one pixel line on the horizon and remove those pixels floating around the moon.

Finished! 

I Have do it :


 But I'm French and I don't understand How to participate officialy to the Challenge, If anybody could Explain to me ... x)