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CHALLENGE 7/1/2013: Thanwa's Painting

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Topic: CHALLENGE 7/1/2013: Thanwa's Painting
Posted By: administrator
Subject: CHALLENGE 7/1/2013: Thanwa's Painting
Date Posted: 01 July 2013 at 12:00am

CHALLENGE: Thanwa's Painting

Pixel what you see in this painting by the http://www.elephantartgallery.com/paintings/bargains.php - Elephant Thanwa.


Canvas Size - Use the 180x240 px canvas provided, you may flip and rotate the canvas.
Colours - Max 32
Transparency - No.
Animation - No.

CHALLENGE RULES

  • Participants have until this upcoming Sunday at midnight (12AM Pacific) to /pixels/submit_icons.asp'>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 /forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=8'>WIP section is highly encouraged, but ONLY SUBMIT YOUR FINAL ART.

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.

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 :)

CHALLENGE VOTING

/pixels/poll.asp?id=1352' name='vote' target='_blank'>Vote now for your favorite pixelart in this week's challenge!

CHALLENGE AWARDS

The Thanwa's Painting pixel art challenge is complete and we have three new champions. This week's challenge awards go to the following pieces:

/pixelart/79131.htm' target='_blank' class='winner1'>Placodermi by /p/43051.htm' target='_blank'>Muxaun
/pixelart/79196.htm' target='_blank' class='winner2'>The Necromancer by /p/5918.htm' target='_blank'>cerealkiller54
/pixelart/79212.htm' target='_blank' class='winner3'>Dino Rider by /p/36754.htm' target='_blank'>aeveis


Thanks so much to all who took the time to vote and participate in the challenge!

/pixelart/79157.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Thanwa's dream by /p/36499.htm' target='_blank'>moondrome
/pixelart/79182.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Samurai (Thanwa Challenge) by /p/43494.htm' target='_blank'>Daldrez
/pixelart/79193.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Berserk Phoenix by /p/43467.htm' target='_blank'>Maak
/pixelart/79213.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Cheating Bastard! by /p/41970.htm' target='_blank'>torimisu
/pixelart/79210.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Mop head - Thanwa's challange by /p/42575.htm' target='_blank'>Brejan
/pixelart/79216.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Listening DUBSTEP by /p/41779.htm' target='_blank'>GhostPlayer
/pixelart/79215.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Thanwa's Shrubland by /p/26682.htm' target='_blank'>crozier


Replies:
Posted By: jeremy
Date Posted: 01 July 2013 at 9:31pm
hmmm

Posted By: Mrmo Tarius
Date Posted: 02 July 2013 at 2:34am

???

Posted By: Muxaun
Date Posted: 02 July 2013 at 4:00am
Flipped it vertically.

Applying proper lights and shades is a bane for me.


 

With overlay:


[UPDATE]:
I don't really know what to do now. There are some refinements to be done (fix palette, apply AA, eliminate bad curves), but what else?
Maybe add some light beams?


Posted By: PixelBrain
Date Posted: 02 July 2013 at 4:44am
That looks absolutely amazing. I would love to see teh background for this!

Posted By: moondrome
Date Posted: 02 July 2013 at 6:42am


update


Posted By: Lyadrielle
Date Posted: 02 July 2013 at 8:39am
This is my turn to post my WIP :> :

Posted By: Mr.Fahrenheit
Date Posted: 02 July 2013 at 8:47am

Posted By: Pukahuna
Date Posted: 02 July 2013 at 9:08am
I see it :S
http://s1157.photobucket.com/user/Pukahuna/media/anigif_zpse1713e12.gif.html">

Posted By: keeling00
Date Posted: 02 July 2013 at 9:47am
I see a guy sitting on the floor with his hands up, he is holding afish on one of his hands and this fish is spitting a liquid.

There is also a male centaur that is reading some scroll or something like that

Posted By: Reo
Date Posted: 02 July 2013 at 5:28pm
I see this really sad horse/camel thingy :(

Posted By: Lenh
Date Posted: 02 July 2013 at 8:21pm
I see...too many things!
WIP

Posted By: grunt
Date Posted: 03 July 2013 at 2:58am
hi :) !! this is my first participation to the weekly challenge
ok here is what I see :D a dodo



edit : WIP 2 :)


edit2 : WIP 3

Posted By: Muxaun
Date Posted: 03 July 2013 at 4:48am
Is pillow shading intended here?
 
IMO it is Much simplier to apply lighting first - and only then add texture.

Posted By: grunt
Date Posted: 03 July 2013 at 5:14am
I think that I've finished it was really fun to participate to this challenge I think that I'll participate more in those weekly challenges

(and sorry for my bad english)

Posted By: MrBeast
Date Posted: 03 July 2013 at 8:16am
@Muxaun Holy damn that looks amazing.

Posted By: PixelBrain
Date Posted: 03 July 2013 at 9:12am
Light beams would look cool but maybe mislead the attention away from the fish. The background looks amazing with the fish (i just see a weird line on top of the second backfin that has some really weird AA)
Great!

Posted By: crozier
Date Posted: 03 July 2013 at 12:02pm
Man, Maxaun, I dig that! Real nice job, there.
But I think if you were to up the saturation on the fish (thing) a little, it would look a bit nicer. The image feels a bit cluttered too. Perhaps too much seaweed?
I tried my hand at an edit.

There are a few more things that could use some work, like the aa could be a little stronger on the top-right part of the fish, and work on those strange circles all over the back side of the fish. The circles on the yellow-grey part of the back end are giving a "banding" vibe.

Posted By: Muxaun
Date Posted: 03 July 2013 at 1:15pm
Originally posted by crozier

Man, Maxaun, I dig that! Real nice job, there.
But I think if you were to up the saturation on the fish (thing) a little, it would look a bit nicer. The image feels a bit cluttered too. Perhaps too much seaweed?
I tried my hand at an edit.
There are a few more things that could use some work, like the aa could be a little stronger on the top-right part of the fish, and work on those strange circles all over the back side of the fish. The circles on the yellow-grey part of the back end are giving a "banding" vibe.

Thanks!
Saturation is like a drug - you can make picture more and more saturated and every time you think "a little bit more saturation will not harm". And finally you end up with highest saturation possible. I just don't like saturation for this. The fish is underwater after all - high saturation looks unnatural.

Perhaps you are right about the clutter, but for me background looked empty without those scarce seaweed. Maybe I had to use some less distractive colors for distant seaweed.

Strange circles are those little dust-like thingies - floating algae and plankton. It's a shame for me I couldn't make it obvious.
But anyway I already posted it - so I will keep my eye on things you mentioned in my future works - not on this one unfortunately. Thanks.

Posted By: Daldrez
Date Posted: 04 July 2013 at 8:41am
Originally posted by crozier

Man, Maxaun, I dig that! Real nice job, there.
But I think if you were to up the saturation on the fish (thing) a little, it would look a bit nicer. The image feels a bit cluttered too. Perhaps too much seaweed?
I tried my hand at an edit.

There are a few more things that could use some work, like the aa could be a little stronger on the top-right part of the fish, and work on those strange circles all over the back side of the fish. The circles on the yellow-grey part of the back end are giving a "banding" vibe.


It looks great, but air bubbles are never perfect spheres when they are going up so you might wanna change them a bit. Other than that I really have no other suggestions, great work!

Edit: And woops, it looks like I'm talking to the wrong person. Whatever, you kind people get the point. ORIGINAL ARTIST. BUBBLES.

Posted By: crozier
Date Posted: 04 July 2013 at 11:40am
Welcome to pixeljoint, Daldrez. ;D

Posted By: Daldrez
Date Posted: 04 July 2013 at 2:50pm

I made a sketch of the image I will finish for the competition.
Some kind of samurai guy.

Also, thanks for the welcome crozier. :D

Update!



More Update



I still have to add a light source and maybe a background.

Considering just saying no to the background.

Finished



I ended up just editing Thanwa's original painting a tiny bit to improve contrast and then just using it is the background. I think it kind of fits the samurai-esc theme anyways, so it all works out.

(Because I don't wanna draw a background.)

Posted By: IllicitPixel
Date Posted: 07 July 2013 at 8:46pm
The image this painting represents is too disturbing to post.

Perverted elephants... tut tut.

Posted By: GhostPlayer
Date Posted: 07 July 2013 at 10:17pm
My idea:


A Ghost. xDD

I Finalized the art now at 02:15.
Final art:

http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/79216.htm


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