14 Color Palette Comp
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Topic: 14 Color Palette Comp
Posted By: Gecimen
Subject: 14 Color Palette Comp
Date Posted: 10 February 2021 at 2:05am
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Pixeljoint is holding another palette competition which is open to everyone and is quite simple. Competition closes in 2 weeks, February 28, 2021. (CLOSED) - The winning palette will be used on PJs next ISOcollab project. If you submit a palette you acknowledge that it will be used by others for the purpose of this project and credit may not be posted by participants if they submit their project piece to their gallery but you will get overall credit for it. These palettes are not to be considered art so please do not submit to your galleries. Its best to assume that others may use your palette beyond this project. By entering you are giving permission to others to use.
- Judges are your PJ Mods and select invited PJ members. - Posting works using your palette on this thread is a very good way to show how your palette is supposed to work. You can post your original or existing works or other people's work, even pieces from old ISO collabs recolored by your palette. - A unique + original palette is the goal but a well balanced palette is very important even if your entry is monochromatic.
You must name the HEX values and NO black - 000000 or white - FFFFFF |
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Posted By: Gecimen
Date Posted: 12 February 2021 at 3:47pm
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Submissions/Entry List If you don't see your palette added to this post within 24 hours please contact a Mod or post a comment below. http://pixeljoint.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=57878&FID=1 - MalevolentMask Rural14 
http://pixeljoint.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=11209&FID=1 - Reo Caballreo 
http://pixeljoint.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=40781&FID=1 - Eggy Knight14  http://pixeljoint.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=44459&FID=1 - Janinhus Shire-14  http://pixeljoint.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=221967&FID=1 - mupixl Tavern14
 http://pixeljoint.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=47436&FID=1 - Drea MDVL14
 http://pixeljoint.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=87640&FID=1 - Paperdomo101 Trebuchet  http://pixeljoint.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=221660&FID=1 - Gen_void Jeriko  http://pixeljoint.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=181877&FID=1 - sushy  http://pixeljoint.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=34516&FID=1 - Trick17  http://pixeljoint.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=1347&FID=1 - Mirre Dungeon14  http://pixeljoint.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=8980&FID=1 - Hapiel  http://pixeljoint.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=17500&FID=1 - Jinn  http://pixeljoint.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=98705&FID=1 - Irenaart Medieval14  http://pixeljoint.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=185096&FID=1 - gawrone Marginalia14  http://pixeljoint.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=66821&FID=1 - mordfikosz Mord's Medieval 14  http://pixeljoint.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=14858&FID=20 - Christoballs Rich14  |
Posted By: Sarahboev
Date Posted: 14 February 2021 at 4:03pm
Got a possible take for the medieval theme!
Edit: I'll call it Rural14 :'D |
Posted By: Reo
Date Posted: 15 February 2021 at 3:47am
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I'm sick of judging these! So I made an entry (jk!) 
I call it Caballreo Edit: Tried my hand on some examples 
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Posted By: Gen_void
Date Posted: 15 February 2021 at 11:11am
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hI! I donīt know if i am doing this good, but i will post my pallete cos the medieval theme is an obsession of mine! I am doing some pieces with this colors and more, hope to nail the colors! just try them! its mostly a lot of greens for the nature and the trees abundant in those times, and red for blood! (or dragons hahah)
It?s called Jeriko. I will do a analysis of possible permutations of the colors and an example soon! 
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Posted By: Eggy
Date Posted: 15 February 2021 at 2:42pm
Here's mine! I call it Knight14. As always I don't consider myself a goddess with colors, but I gave it my darnedest best. And I got a super rough and scratchy image as a quick test. Lol
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Posted By: Janinhus
Date Posted: 15 February 2021 at 2:58pm
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Hey everyone! I'm so glad to finally enter one of these contests since color palettes has been an obsession of mine for so long!  So, after a ton of tweaking and different iterations here's my entry, which i called Shire-14. For this one i tried to make it as versatile as possible, while keeping the theme in mind and trying to offer the necessary grays and browns that i think are essential for the medieval setting. So first choices were a midtone brown (wood, wildlife, dirt, etc) and a multi-purpose dark brownish gray (to shade everything brown, but also armor, rocks, castle walls - aka, everything gray) and a lighter gray (as the go to color for rocks, armor, etc). And also a really dark blue (for your darkest desires  ) and purple (for multi-purpose shading) as the darkest tones. Onto the water and grass with two shades of green and two more of blue, and those were the base colors for the theme. Then came a long process of iteration and trial an error to find the colors for the remaining spots. In the end, i settled with: - two midtone oranges: a red-ish one for blood and fire and whatnot; and a very versatile midtone yellowish orange that serves as a complement to a few of the others. For instance, it can be the lighter tone for wood texturing, the midtone for the fire, and the mid/dark tone for sand or gold. - a bright yellow (fire, sand and highlights); - a light yellowish beige (skin tones, clothing...) - a very bright (almost white) beige (for highlighting, snow, and pretty much everything white). While tweaking, i tried to make sure all colors worked well with one of the ISOCollabs that i think had the most similar elements to the medieval theme: the PrehISOria collab. So, here's the Shire-14 applied to it:  This collab serves as a great example of how well the palette can portray most needed textures (rocks, grass, wood, wildlife, blood and fire and even sand and snow). Later on, as a stress test, i decided to apply it to some of vierbit's works:     Although a lot of details got "lost in translation" (since vierbit used WAY more than 14 colors on each of these) i think the palette held itself really well considering the color count. Also tested it on one of fool's castles (because medieval) and came to the same conclusion:  Again, a lot of details had to be sacrificed, but it still looks great for a 14 color drawing. So that's it! Hope you like it and sorry for the huge images!  ~edited: changed description because *bad english*. |
Posted By: Gecimen
Date Posted: 16 February 2021 at 10:46am
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Originally posted by Gen_void hI! Can you please post within the format? (in other words do not enlarge the template) thank you!
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Posted By: mupixl
Date Posted: 16 February 2021 at 12:58pm
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Some really nice palettes so far! Here is mine along with last ISOcollab edit, and two examples of my own art with a medieval theme adapted to the new palette.
-------- Palette: -------- Name: Tavern14
--------- Examples: ---------   
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Posted By: Matt
Date Posted: 17 February 2021 at 6:35pm
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*Warning: Long Post
Here is my palette, I call it MDVL14
here is the DB Analyzer 
here is a few (but not all) meaningful colour combinations 
I chose these colours because I wanted to be able to cover most essential textures for a medieval world such as stone, wood, grass, water, sand, dirt and also be able to cover various materials like iron/steel, bronze, gold, mythril. I also felt it was important to be able to cover things such as potions, magic, alternative lighting, fire, scales. All things considered - the palette is skewed towards brown and grays especially in the warmer colours, although it is contrasted by blues and greens. All colours play combined roles in many of the textures. here is an armour test on a few of Cyangmou's sprites this test shows some ways to accomplish iron/steel, bronze, gold, and mythril style 
here is the palette applied to a couple of previous ISOcollabs, to test how well it can adapt to the textures 
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Posted By: Paperdomo101
Date Posted: 18 February 2021 at 12:26am
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Figured I'd give this a go.
I'm gonna call it 'Trebuchet'
I thought a dark palette would suit the medieval theme, but I also wanted it to be colorful and high contrast. Heres a little mockup I made to show different materials and lighting 
And here is a Dawnbringer analysis of the palette: 
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Posted By: Gecimen
Date Posted: 18 February 2021 at 7:28am
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@Paperdomo can you please post the palette unzoomed? |
Posted By: Paperdomo101
Date Posted: 18 February 2021 at 7:44am
| Done. Sorry about that. |
Posted By: sushy
Date Posted: 19 February 2021 at 2:00pm
Alright, here is my palette! I drew a fish with it.
Seperate image: 
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Posted By: Gen_void
Date Posted: 20 February 2021 at 12:26pm
| Corrected done! |
Posted By: Gecimen
Date Posted: 21 February 2021 at 11:35am
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Originally posted by sushy Alright, here is my palette! I drew a fish with it. Can you please post the palette as a separate image?
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Posted By: sushy
Date Posted: 23 February 2021 at 7:12am
| I see, I adjusted it now :D |
Posted By: Trick17
Date Posted: 26 February 2021 at 4:30pm
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My entry: |
Posted By: Mirre
Date Posted: 27 February 2021 at 4:51am
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I made a palette and tested it out a little too. Quite happy with it! It's called 'Dungeon14'.
I tried to make it as versatile as possible. It's inspired by old manuscripts and art of the likes of Hieronymus Bosch. Dungeon14
My test 
Tested on PrehISOria 
With DawnBringer's Palette Analyser 
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Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 27 February 2021 at 8:48am
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Originally posted by Gen_void hI! I donīt know if i am doing this good, but i will post my pallete cos the medieval theme is an obsession of mine! I am doing some pieces with this colors and more, hope to nail the colors! just try them! its mostly a lot of greens for the nature and the trees abundant in those times, and red for blood! (or dragons hahah) It?s called Jeriko. I will do a analysis of possible permutations of the colors and an example soon! I cleaned up your palette. I don't know if all the colors are correct, I took the colors as they appeared in the screenshot, not as the codes were.
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Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 27 February 2021 at 10:00am
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Here is my entry. It is made out of only colors of palettes submitted to this compo (so far), no adjustments made. Can you find a color of yours? |
Posted By: Janinhus
Date Posted: 27 February 2021 at 1:05pm
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Originally posted by Hapiel Here is my entry. It is made out of only colors of palettes submitted to this compo (so far), no adjustments made. Can you find a color of yours? awesome ^^ mine is the brighter brown
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Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 27 February 2021 at 4:00pm
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I really hope that I win, because then you all win! haha Or well, most of you. I can't guarantee I picked a color from each palette, I kinda mixed them up... |
Posted By: Jinn
Date Posted: 27 February 2021 at 8:20pm
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My entry:
Some mockups/reduxes: 
 
I think it can be cool for mediaval villages/dungeons and stuff. |
Posted By: Eggy
Date Posted: 28 February 2021 at 2:01am
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Originally posted by Hapiel
I really hope that I win, because then you all win! hahaOr well, most of you. I can't guarantee I picked a color from each palette, I kinda mixed them up... I just checked and I think you didn't pick any of mine lol 
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Posted By: Irenaart
Date Posted: 28 February 2021 at 7:17am
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My palette "Medieval14": Tested on PrehISOria collab image:  |
Posted By: gawrone
Date Posted: 28 February 2021 at 9:16am
My palette "Marginalia14"
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Posted By: mordfikosz
Date Posted: 28 February 2021 at 11:03am
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Mord's Medieval 14:
EDIT: This is not the palette I wanted to post for the challenge, somehow I was able to mess up the upload. Hereby I'd like to withdraw this form the compo. Apologies for all the inconvenience. |
Posted By: Gecimen
Date Posted: 02 March 2021 at 1:42am
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Originally posted by mordfikosz Mord's Medieval 14:
EDIT: This is not the palette I wanted to post for the challenge, somehow I was able to mess up the upload. Hereby I'd like to withdraw this form the compo. Apologies for all the inconvenience. too late :)
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Posted By: Esven
Date Posted: 11 March 2021 at 12:32am
| Was a winner ever decided for this or was the new collab started? It's been about 2 weeks now since the Feb 28th deadline and I've been checking daily but I'm starting worry that I've somehow missed something. |
Posted By: Irenaart
Date Posted: 11 March 2021 at 4:27am
@Esven; don't worry! I think we are waiting for just one more judge to cast his vote. The winner should probably be announced in the next day or two (at least as far as I can deduce from Gecimen's scanty notices  ).
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Posted By: Gecimen
Date Posted: 15 March 2021 at 3:26am
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Well I gave up hope with the last judge(s) so I'll announce the winner tomorrow. I'm a bit sick so I hope I'll find the energy to. |