Pixelween 2025 is over... exept not because it's the Bonus Week!
The theme is Origin.
You will be continuing your horizontal landscape to the left hand side this time.
Where did the guest come from? How did they end up exactly there for their fateful meeting? When did they come from? Why did they... come... from? What in the...?
Do feel free to interpret the theme (origin) and format (landscape panorama) as you wish. Thinking outside of the box is always encouraged! The only real limitations are the palette and canvas size! And remember that it needs to connect on the left side to the first weekly challenge entry you made, or the one that is furthest to the left.
This weekly challenge is not mandatory to participate in to qualify for the competition, but encouraged for those who enjoyed themselves or wish to challenge themselves. You are also able to use a couple of days from this week to polish your previous entries/parts of the panorama, for the competition. It will not be the whole week though, so get your tweaks in soon!
BONUS BONUS CHALLENGE - use the bonus week entry to connect your panorama on both sides and create an endlessly flowing animation (which you can show or link in this artwork's description).
Pixelween 2025 continues with it's fourth week...
The theme is The End.
You will be creating a horizontal landscape on this theme. The following weeks will attach to the previous weeks' entries on the right hand side. So to summarize: a horizontal landscape panorama going from left to right.
They have gone through it all. A meeting, a journey, a loss. All that remains for them to experience is the end. Or is it?
Do feel free to interpret the theme (the end) and format (landscape panorama) as you wish. Thinking outside of the box is always encouraged! The only real limitations are the palette and canvas size! And remember that it needs to connect to the previous week and the next week's challenge entry.
This week's width was decided by a vote on Discord. This week concludes the competition entries. Two out of four parts must have been submitted in time for the Weekly Challenges to qualify your entry for the contest. There will also be a bonus week next week that is not mandatory to participate in, but encouraged for those who enjoyed themselves or wish to challenge themselves.
Pixelween 2025 continues with it's third week...
The theme is The Loss.
You will be creating a horizontal landscape on this theme. The following weeks will attach to the previous weeks' entries on the right hand side. So to summarize: a horizontal landscape panorama going from left to right.
They go through a loss. What is it a loss of? A loss of time? A prized possession? A loved one? A war? Direction? Their mind???
Do feel free to interpret the theme (the loss) and format (landscape panorama) as you wish. Thinking outside of the box is always encouraged! The only real limitations are the palette and canvas size! And remember that it needs to connect to the previous week and the next week's challenge entry.
Pixelween 2025 continues with it's second week...
The theme is The Journey.
You will be creating a horizontal landscape on this theme. The following weeks will attach to the previous weeks' entries on the right hand side. So to summarize: a horizontal landscape panorama going from left to right.
The Guest and the Others go on a journey together. Where will they go? What will they find? What obstacles will they overcome? Will their bond grow stronger or not? What dangers will they face? What scary story will you tell us?
Do feel free to interpret the theme (the journey) and format (landscape panorama) as you wish. Thinking outside of the box is always encouraged! The only real limitations are the palette and canvas size! And remember that it needs to connect to the previous week and the next week's challenge entry.
And so Pixelween 2025 begins...
The first spooky theme is An Unexpected Guest.
You will be creating a horizontal landscape on this theme. The following weeks will attach to the previous weeks' entries on the right hand side. So to summarize: a horizontal landscape panorama going from left to right.
Who will your unexpected guest be? What are they a guest for? Where are they a guest for? So many questions. Will we get answers?
Do feel free to interpret the theme (an unexpected guest) and format (landscape panorama) as you wish. Thinking outside of the box is always encouraged! The only real limitations are the palette and canvas size! And remember that it needs to connect to next week's challenge entry.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Final Episode
This week you can finish an entry you've started, or enter a challenge you wanted to participate in, but couldn't. You have 22 challenges to choose from. Here is the list:
Faceblock
Canvasflip
Why do you even bother?
Silloutted
101 Darnthings
POV
Eyes
Clickbaited
You're An Inanimal Object
Malevich Black Square
Backrooms
Crowded Together
Sad Anthropomorphism Cup
And it was called Yellow!
Cuddle the Horror
Onion Skinning
Looking at Distant Thing
What Am I Looking At?
Ponzo Illusion
Imposterd?
Clockwoek Orange
(Tiny, Random) Sideways
You can still change the final results by participating in as many as you wish, but only the ones you did not enter before.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 22
Create a scene where the world is flipped on its side, but living (or dead [or undead {...}]) creatures aren't.
This challenge combines Weerdmesteer's innovative ideas, with our traditional tiny worlds challenges (so prepare your 8 pixel tall sprite chops), and with our traditional weird, random, and totally unusable palette challenges (I guess you are lucky this time, becasue this one actually looks pretty easy).
You have to use this palette:
Ghost White #F8F8FF
Bone #E3DAC9
Pumpkin #FF7518
Zombie Green #698362
Blood Red #660000
Vampire Violet #3F2A68
And if you haven't been around PJ long enough, to know what this challenge means, you can ask your senior PJ friends.
Canvas Size - Max 66x66.
Colors - Max 6 (use the palette).
Transparency - Forbidden.
Animation - Forbidden.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 21
Everything mechanical is natural, and everything natural is mechanical.
You have to use the Natural Inteligence palette by Mierdinsky.
Canvas Size - Max 333x333.
Colors - Max 9.
Transparency - Forbidden.
Animation - Optional.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 20
Create a piece with a group of creatures or objects (at least 2), where another different one tries to fit in the group (without a disguise) by just being very similar looking object/species.
You have to use the Sneaky-12 Palette by RoBEEFnik
Canvas Size - Max 200x400.
Colors - Max 12 (13 if you use transparency).
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Forbidden.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 19
Create a piece with 3 characters (or more), all being the exact same height in pixels, but put in different heights in perspective, thus making them look small and near, normal and large, and far away respectively.
Canvas Size - Open.
Colors - Max 24.
Transparency - Forbidden.
Animation - Forbidden.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 18
Create two scenes either in animation or comic form. The first scene or panel having a characters expression and the second with the context explaining the expression of the character.
You have to use the CMYK Douce palette by Snurly.
Canvas Size - Max 250x200.
Colors - Max 4 (use the palette).
Transparency - Forbidden.
Animation - Optional.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 17
Create a scene with someone looking at a faraway point of interest... but try to make that point of interest up to be the weirdest, strangest, most-nonsensical thing imaginable.
You have to use the Fantastic Planet palette by Jude Buffum.
Canvas Size - Max 240x135.
Colors - Max 11 (use the palette).
Transparency - Forbidden.
Animation - Forbidden.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 16
Depict an animation, but don't actually show a moving animation. Instead, show every single frame at the same time in an image (you are allowed to play with colour illusions of transparency for better readability).
Since this challenge idea, invented by Weerdmeester, is so brilliant and mindblowing to me, I simply cannot, and couldn't add anything to it from myself, without messing things up. So instead I will just add my messy palette:
You have to use the maggot24 palette. Please try to continue the spirit of the previous challenge, and pixel something cute with it.
Or don't.
Canvas Size - Max 222x222.
Colors - Max 24 (use maggot24).
Transparency - Forbidden.
Animation - Forbidden.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 15
Depict a terryfying monstrous eldritch looking creature, in a very sweet context.
You have to choose one 8 colour palette from lospec. Link the palette in your artwork description.
Canvas Size - Max 300x200.
Colors - Max 8 (9 if you use transparency).
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 14
Create a piece with a color #fee000 encompassing at 25% or more of the piece.
Canvas Size - Open.
Colors - Open (you have to use at least 2 and one of them have to be #fee000).
Transparency - Forbidden.
Animation - Forbidden.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 13
1. Depict an object, and try to feel some sort of emotion about that object, without adding any anthropomorphic attributes to it.
2. You can use as many colours as you wish, but you have to assign one different emotion to each colour you use.
Make a list in your artwork description with your chosen colour hex codes and corresponding emotions.
Example:
2ca19f - Politeness
d71de3 - Annoyance
e3b61d - Delight
You can use any emotion classification you like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_classification
The emotion or emotions you depict with your object and the emotions you use as your palette blocks are two separate things and can, but do not have to be related in any way.
Canvas Size - Max 200x200.
Colors - Open*.
Transparency - Forbidden.
Animation - Forbidden.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 12
Create a standard PJ avatar without any stray pixels. Every single stray counts, also those meant for anti-aliasing/dithering.
However, this is not the end of the challenge. Your avatar picture cannot have a stray head too. You have to include at least two heads on your 64x64 square. We completely don't care if this will be a touching heads selfie with your friend, a rat on your shoulder, you holding a cabbage head, your conjoined twin or you as a two (or more) headed monster. If you can convince us that something has or is a head, it will be ok for this challenge.
You have to use the adl16 palette by adelfaure
Canvas Size - exactly 64x64.
Colors - Max 16.
Transparency - Forbidden.
Animation - Forbidden.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 11
Create a liminal space.
Canvas Size - 320x180 or 480x270.
Colors - Max 11.
Transparency - Forbidden.
Animation - Forbidden.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 10
Create a scene (or a portrait) where the point of interest, the most interesting thing of the art piece... is a stray pixel.
You have to use the Chrome Dino palette by Donkey Kong from Rejected Palettes.
Canvas Size - Min. 64x64. max 100x100 (have to be a square).
Colors - Max 8.
Transparency - Forbidden.
Animation - Forbidden.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
We are pausing the Weerdmeester Streak for one week. However, this challenge is inspired by the last one.
Take a look at this dialectic of opposites:
Alive -> Dead -> Undead
Something is alive and then becomes dead, and when it is brought back to life it does not reverse. It becomes undead. Undead is not dead but it is also not alive. It is something completely different and new.
Now for this challenge we will continue this process and go to one step further to „non-undead”.
Alive -> Dead -> Undead -> Non-undead
Again it is a complete new quality, different than each one before. Not alive, not dead, and not undead also. What exactly is non-undead? I have no idea. You will try to answer that question in this challenge.
Pixel how you understand "non-undead".
The form is completely open. It can be a sprite, a scene, a portrait, whatever you need.
You have to use Resurrect 32 Palette by Kerrie Lake.
Canvas Size - Open.
Colors - Max 32 (33 if you use transparency).
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 9
Draw an animal and a non-inanimate object depicting that same animal species.
You have to use the Indecision Palette by Nelson SMG
Canvas Size - max 300x200.
Colors - Max 18.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 8
Make a preview implying the contextt of a work, but have the actual work be about something else entirely.
Canvas Size - min 200x200, max 400x500.
Colors - Max 24.
Transparency - Forbidden.
Animation - Forbidden.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 7
Depict eyes, on things, in things, besides things, looking at things.
You have to use the 20-20 Vision Palette by le.
Canvas Size - max 200x200.
Colors - Max 20 (21 if transparency).
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 6
Choose a painting (link it in the description) with creatures and people in it, pick a creature or a person in the scene and depict their point of view exactly.
Canvas Size - Determined by the point of view of the chosen viewer.
Colors - Determined by the point of view of the chosen viewer.
Transparency - Forbidden.
Animation - Forbidden.
We are stopping Weerdmeester Streak to become foolish once again (it is still April).
Draw and animate Tipleloop riding a bike 14000km over the land and the sea to not-cancel Weerdmeester. You can freely interpret this phrase. It can be a sprite or a scene. You only have to animate Tipleloop and her bike to qualify, so if you go for a background, animating it is totally optional. The meaning of "bike" is as wide as possible. It can be a mountain bike, cargo bike, hybrid bike, motorbike, rail bike, water bike, hoverbike, unicycle, space bike, or vintage penny-farthing. If you don't know how Tipleloop looks, you can check the Class Photo collab or use your imagination.
You have to use the palette Bad Idea'18 by Tipleloop.
Canvas Size - Max 300x200.
Colors - Max 18 (19 it you use transparency).
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Required.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 5
Create a piece with an absurd amount of the same object or creatures.
Please try to avoid just copy pasting. Add more in different sizes/distance, different rotations, different points of view, different dimension, etc.
*this is too easy, the palette will be Digital Paper by Snurly 
Canvas Size - Max 300x300.
Colors - Max 5 (4 if you don"t use transparency).
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
We are pausing the Weerdmester Masterclass for one week.
If you don't know yet what's going on yet, here are the rules:
1) Choose an artist you like, you admire, you stalk or you just want to mess with.
2) Create an artwork imitating their style, techniques, colour choices, and/or themes.
3) Pretend they are the author of that piece.
Canvas Size - What would your chosen artist do?
Colors - What would your chosen artist do?
Transparency - What would your chosen artist do?
Animation - What would your chosen artist do?
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 4
Create a piece with only silhouettes.
You have to use the Tea Cakes Palette by Qirlfriend
Canvas Size - Exactly 480x270px.
Colors - Max 12 (use the palette).
Transparency - None.
Animation - None.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 3
Create a sprite or a scene where a thief steals something very unusual/big/clumsy shaped.
You have to use the Clumsy Dozen palette made by windfallapples (glacier).
Canvas Size - Max 200x200.
Colors - Max 16 (12 from the palette and 4 additional colours of your choice [or 3 and transparency]).
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Weerdmeester Masterclass Challenge Streak
Episode 2
Create an image that looks good on every 90° angle.
Canvas Size - Exactly 100x100px.
Colors - Max 24.
Transparency - No.
Animation - Required (but only 4 frames of the same image rotated by 0°, 90°, 180° and 270°, with each frame duration 1000ms).
This week we are having a portrait challenge.
Recreate the face of someone who just accidentally flash-photographed themselves.
Canvas Size - Exactly 90x160 vertical.
Colors - Max 16.
Transparency - No.
Animation - No.
This is a challenge for everyone who was not satisfied with the Animal Atlas collab's 2 animal limit. We all love drawing animals, so let's do some more. However this is not a fun collab, but a challenge, so prepare to meet some problems that will require creative solving.
February 15th is the World Hippo Day - a third heaviest land mammal after elephant and rhinoceros, and on February 27th we celebrate International Polar Bear Day - the biggest land predator. We decided to combine those two huge observances into one, by combining those two huge animals into one.
Create a sprite of a hybrid of a Hippopotamus and a Polar Bear. You can mix up any of their parts/traits in any way you wish. It can be a half hippo half bear in a mermaid way, a hippo with a white fur, or a polar bear which's mouth opens to 180°. Most likely, the more creative you are, the more attention you will cath in the poll.
Instead of a palette with realistic wildlife depiction capabilities, we give you something challenging. You have to use the 4pi Palette Created by Bo Tie.
Canvas Size - Max 200x150.
Colors - Max 9 (palette + transparency).
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
We are continuing the series that started with Tiny Towers, and followed with Petite Panorama and Diminutive Dungeons.
Mansions are interesting buildings that could be very long and stretch over many floors or wings. You can decide to go vertical OR horizontal as you like, but it should be building interior themed. Who lives in your mansion? A forlorn vampire? A desolate prince? An enchanted countess? Rooms might include kitchen, dining room, bedrooms, hallways, bathrooms, ballroom, office, library, sauna, basement, gym, sunroom, greenhouse, laboratory, dungeon as a few examples.
Canvas Size - Width: Minimum 64px, wider is allowed too. Height: Exactly 16px OR Width: Exactly 16px. Height: Minimum 64px, taller is allowed too.
Colors - Max 16
Transparency - Optional
Animation - Optional
Valentine's Day is soon upon us! And so it is upon game characters. Help them create a Valentine's Day card where they profess their love or admiration. For who? It's up to you! It can even be a generic greeting.
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