The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for November 2025.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
This challenge is designed by actionpose.
Remider that every user is allowed and encouraged to share their challenge ideas on discord.
This week we are making Hero from Kero Blaster into a realistic frog with a backpack. Should be based off the sprite from the game. Using Old90's Palette from Lospec made by Astroan.
Link to the game https://store.steampowered.com/app/292500/Kero_Blaster/
Canvas Size - Max 80x80.
Colors - Max 15 (palette + transparency). 
Transparency - Required.
Animation - Optional.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
The authors are Ashadorn, velvetChaika, Incognito2074 and CoconutsForest.
The next theme is 1910s.
The link to the canvas: https://maetheria.com/
https://i.ibb.co/yFJ1Rxs9/maetheria-80-cropped.png
The album art collab that has been running on the Pixel Joint Discord since April has reached it's conclusion, and we are now proud to present the results. The community created a total of 637 entries, and they can all be seen in the interactive gallery created by Umbohr:
Go to wepixel! See it here! Wow!
And now, some fun milestones and stats:
The first few albums were created by the mod team before the challenge oficcially started, which we all agree is cheating, so the honor of first entry completed goes to Biff and Twenty One Pilots - Clancy
A total of 537 (music) artists were represented by 87 (pixel) artists. The most popular artist of the collab was Radiohead, being represented by four different artists
Amnesiac by Grimm_dingo
Kid A by palzden
OK Computer by hby
The bends by Pyxis
(But big shout outs to Masayoshi Takanaka, Gorillaz, and Run The Jewels who were all represented by three pixel artists each)
Most contributions overall was done by Grimm_dingo, who made 100 entries! Go see them all here!
And to round it out, the final album to make it before tha challenge closed was Gorillaz - Gorillaz by Mirre
Which is your favorite album in the collab? Did you find any new music through it? If you haven't listened to all 637 albums submitted yet, the wepixel gallery has an embedded music player that works for, well, most of them. Go give it a shot!
Last week of the chocolateween is the Chocolate RPG Party
Draw 3 different sprites of RPG game characters, classes, races, etc. They have to be made of chocolare or related to the chocolate theme in other way. Nerd is optional. You are of course not limited to fantasy. If you need inspiration in your search for original classes, use this link. You have to use the CHOCOMILK-8 palette by Blylzz.
You can also browse the PJ RPG Party Challenge history:
Animal RPG Party,
Sushiween III (RPG Sushi)
Canvas Size - Max. 350x350
Colours - max 9 (palette + transparency).
Transparency - Required.
Animation - Optional.
Don't forget to comment on the pieces you like! Not only does a comment have the potential to make the artist's day, if you post a lot you'll win one of the fancy new trophies!
Shun Kazakami is a veteran pixel artist (who worked in 90`s for consoles and Arcade) and Illustrator, with a lot of years of experience in creating art for videogames, Illustrations, and character design, and currently he is working as a mangaka artist.
Q: What was your first encounter with pixel art?
Kazakami-San: I think my first encounter was Taito's Space Invaders. Next was Namco's Galaxian, which went a step further by giving characters multiple colors.
”Space Invaders 1978 & Galaxian 1982”
