An Unexpected Guest

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Title: An Unexpected Guest
Pixel Artist: gawrone  (Level 11 Pixeljoint :: 95983 points)
Posted: 9/30/2025 10:46
Statistics:  10 comments    19 faves    0 avatars

Pixelween 2025 week 1


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SeDiceBisonte (Level 8 Spaceman) @ 10/11/2025 14:33

@gawrone: You're always so encouraging. Thanks—it really pushes me to try to improve since I admire you and your work a lot!


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LicinioSouza (Level 5 Captain) @ 10/7/2025 14:09

I'll definitely revisit this conversation to further reflect on these processes. Thank you!


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gawrone (Level 11 Pixeljoint) @ 10/7/2025 06:20

Oh I only assumed this was the intention of bigger value jump for the darkest colour. I have no idea of the real intentions of the palette creator. Also There are plenty of workarounds. The easiest way in this case would be to ignore the darkest colour and never use it. This way you would have more to work with in your darkest stuff. But you cannot use that trick now, in this panorama if you already used that "black". The other trick would be to dither semitones. But this works mostly on large areas. Look at this wonderful piece by AmberMechanic https://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/161324.htm That palette had that problem and look what she did to have one more colour between the darkest blues ;)


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LicinioSouza (Level 5 Captain) @ 10/7/2025 04:25

 WOW! Interesting!@gawrone  I don't really understand this palette thing. I mean, I've always seen it discussed, and now I'm dedicating myself to understanding it better. Your spontaneous explanation answered a problem I had with my first idea, because it was a night scene, and I couldn't manage the colors. So I gave up and did Sacy. In week 2, I'm back to the night idea, now I won't be able to escape, haha. I hope the training helped me; I think I can do it. If I can't, I'll ask the people on Discord for help. 


I wasn't aware of the "intention" of a restricted palette. It makes a lot of sense, of course; I understand it better now.  


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gawrone (Level 11 Pixeljoint) @ 10/7/2025 01:48

@LicinioSouza

Thank you kindly. The palette is so good that it just manages itself. The only thing I found that could hardly even be a minor nitpick, is the huge jump from the "black" to the next darkest colour. I guess it was designed to be mostly use as outline? It doesn't make things easy in horror themes, if you want do draw something emerging from an absolute darkness 


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gawrone (Level 11 Pixeljoint) @ 10/7/2025 01:41

@SeDiceBisonte

There is nothing more satisfying as getting paise form artists you admire yourself. 


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gawrone (Level 11 Pixeljoint) @ 10/7/2025 01:38

@Space-AgeWrangler

Thank you very much. After I've posted it, I begun to fear that people might take it as some anti-abortion message (because those often use simialr imaginery), while I myself being 100% pro-choice, just wanted to draw some gore loosely related to the beginnings of life 


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LicinioSouza (Level 5 Captain) @ 10/5/2025 07:15

Prettty nice color management! 


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SeDiceBisonte (Level 8 Spaceman) @ 10/5/2025 06:08

This is such a creative response to the prompt and it looks great too. Your style + Pixelween = perfection!


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Space-AgeWrangler (Level 8 Queen) @ 10/1/2025 07:00

Really nice interpretation of the theme!


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