Pixel Loop 20
We’ll need to admit we are our Pet’s servants, now my fellow SERVANTS! Paint your Liege Portrait as Royalty they are!! (google: “pet royalty renaissance painting” for inspirations) but if you’re not a Pet servants, you can also draw any animal / house plant. I would love to see a giraffe in Renaissance clothing, oh you are allowed to have weird shape frame, and can treat it as extensions of your portrait, but some line/ crease would be needed. To show it was an extension of the base canvas.
Canvas - It's complicated. The painting itself needs to be exactly 80x100 px (vertical) for a single pet or 100x100 px for two or more pets (ovals and circles are also allowed).
If you want to add a frame, you can go around it however you like - no limits on the frame as long as it makes sense (like 500px straight lines in each direction just to be edgy will not be accepted. Make the darn frame at least plausible).
In case of an oval or circle canvas you can also build a frame exactly around it.
Frame is optional.
Colors - Max 64 (65 if you add transparency. You have to use Minecraft 64 by Snowbound Cabin)
Transparency- Optional. If you add a frame it depends on the complexity of your design. If you don't use frame, you need transparency only around the oval/circle canvas. If you have a rectangle/square painting without any frame , you can't use transparency. Transparency is only allowed outside of the painting/frame, or if your frame ornaments have holes. You cannot use transparency inside the painting.
Animation - Forbidden
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Pixel Loop 19
Pick one of the 2-bit palettes provided bellow and draw an autumn landscape, warm and cozy with golden leaves everywhere.
Canvas - Max 300x200 px, min 100x100 px
Colors - max 4. Choose one of the provided palettes:
Horehound-4
Rettiepunk
Lava Palette
CGA Palette 0
Transparancy - Forbidden
Animation - Forbidden
The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for May 2026.
Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!
Pixel Loop 18
Using flowing lines, organic shapes, and nature-inspired motifs (flower, vines) draw a figure with elaborate hair on detailed frame, inspired by artists Alphonse Mucha.
You have to use the HILDA32 palette by skeddles
Canvas Size – Open (but it has to be a long, vertical canvas).
Colours – Max 32 (33 if you use transparency).
Transparency - Optional (but remember, this is not a sprite challenge, you need to have a background with a decorative frame, you can use the transparency if you want to have an arched background or other weird shapes).
Animation - Forbidden.
Pixel Loop 17
It's an aniamted sprite challenge.
Draw everyday modern object as a mimic. Animate its transformation from unassuming object into mimic. Hint: ever heard of “toilet mimic” ?
As usual lately, it is the continuation of a perfect collaboration between TIpleloop, who is doing 99% of the hard work, and me, who just type the text into PJ, choose the palette, and click one button.
This week's palette will be DS-34 Palette by Hector Gonzalez because I love DS games and they have mimics there.
Canvas Size – Max 100x100px.
Colours – Max 34 (use the palette).
Transparency - Required.
Animation - Required.