Create a Horror game (original) Villain based on a Phobia.
It can be a portrait or full body.
The required animation can be a simple snowy, flickering screen, or even a full jumpscare scene.
(Optional) please tell more about the Villain story in the descriptions.
Canvas - Open.
Color - Max 6 without the transparency, and max 7 with transparency used (use the City Street 6 palette by Chase Stemel)
Transparancy - Optional.
Animation - Required.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
The world had ended. Apocalypse has come! Create your own Mobile Post-Apocalyptic Shelter. It has to be able to support min. 1 family indefinitely, so draw out your solar panel and mini-farm. Don't forget the water storage and fuel system. It could be one gigantic shelter or a couple of them together. It's up to your own impetration, but the most important thing is IT HAS TO BE ARMED! Remember, monsters are everywhere. (You can draw a fighting jet with a solar panel as an outer panel or just a couple of hippies armed to the teeth with their own home on wheels.)
Note: Drawing the vehicle's tenant is optional; you can just draw the vehicle. Animation can be used to show a hidden function of the vehicle or show the cross-section image of the vehicle.
Canvas - Open.
Color - Max 32 (you have to use the Aerugo Palette by Lizalot)
Transparancy - Optional.
Animation - Optional.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Pixel Loop 22
Pick a cover of a music album and recreate it replacing all the humans with animals. The cover of your choice needs to have at least one human, or at least a humanoid being/monster (for example elves or devils still do count).
Link the original cover in yor art description.
BONUS CHALLENGE: edit the logo/name/title to include animal pun correlated to your animal of choice. For example: IRON MEOWDEN.
Canvas - Square, 1:1 ratio.
Color - max 16.
Transparancy - Forbidden.
Animation - Forbidden.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Draw a Scene in which you and your family, sibling, friend or Pet suddenly woke up in upscaled world that is your own room.
I doesn't have to be your actual room, it can be an "imaginary your room". It also doesn't have to be an entire room. It can be only a part of it like a desk or a bookshelf, but make it clear that it is happening in a room and the characters are tiny.
Using an avatar or some other form of representation is also allowed. It needs to be at least two characeters that represent you and someone else.
Canvas - open. Ratio for horizontal 16:9 and for Vertical 9:16 (eg 32x18, 160x90, and so on)
Color - max 32.
Transparancy - Forbidden
Animation - Optional
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
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.
Pixel Loop 16
Draw a cyberpunk town in an isometric projection.
Use the Tropical Heat palette by Jude Buffum
Canvas Size – Exactly 240x135px (horizontal).
Colours – Max 14 (use the palette).
Transparency - Forbidden.
Animation - Forbidden.
Pixel Loop 15
Design a medieval perfume bottle as if is marketed for Man. Compose an entire advertisement banner or a flyer with the product name, an advertizsing slogan and of course the product itself. Remember that you have to convince medieval manly knights, merchants, peasants, craftsmen, and even bandits, to buy your product.
Addded note : google 13 in 1 men body wash.
You have to use the landsknecht palette by percy.
Canvas Size – Exactly 300x150px.
Colours – Max 17.
Transparency - Forbidden.
Animation - Forbidden.
Pixel Loop 14
Give fur to real life animal that don’t have fur and make it fluffy. E.g Fluffy Crocodile/ shark.
gawrone edit:
I'm adding a little challenging twist to this amazing Tipleloop's idea - you have to use the Armageddon palette by MirruTatep 
. If you want to stand out in this challenge you will have to do it by other means than colour, like unique animal choice or creative texturing].
Canvas Size – Max 200x200px.
Colours – Max 6 (palette + transparency).
Transparency - Required.
Animation - Forbidden.
Pixel loop 13
Draw a sprite of a Fairy BUT not Humanoid. You can take inspiration from anything, be it animal, plant, or abstract concept, as long as it's not a small human.
Note: Fairy wings are necessary
Canvas Size – Max 200x200px.
Colours – Max 24.
Transparency - Required.
Animation - Optional.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Pixel loop 12
Draw a Tiny World in sealed Terrarium, treat this world as it was isolated from real world, they have their own city/village and population of tiny creatures.
Canvas Size – Max 100x100px.
Colours – Max 16
Transparency - No
Animation - No
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Pixelloop 11
Draw a scenery / landscape with a human explorer discovering a new world that evidently is not Earth.
Canvas Size – Open with fixed ratio. Horizontal 16:9 or Vertical 9:16 (eg. 32x18, 160x90, and so on)
Colours – Max 32
Transparency - No
Animation - No
Pixel Loop 10
Chose any triple A game (what counts as AAA is opened for your interpretation, but if you think your choice is controversial, ask any of the mods first) as GBA game mockup.
Canvas Size - 240x160 or 160 x 144.
Colours - max 32 colours for 240x160 or max 16 colours for 160 x 144.
Transparency - Forbidden.
Animation - Optional.
Pixel Loop 9
I know we all have Monster under our bed, but let’s Make Them Tiny and Cute (need to have 3 EXTRA limbs, 1 EXTRA eyes, so if your vision of your Monster have 2 and 2 eyes limbs make it 5 limbs and 3 eyes!!) Note: “Cute” as in the eye of the beholder (you).
Canvas Size – Max 200 x 200
Colours – max 33 (palette + transparency) https://lospec.com/palette-list/purpley-perfect
Transparency - Optional
Animation - optional
Pixel Loop 8
Create and design a joker card, either or not inspired by any joker movies, (do what you like) but this card must fit into a playing card deck (poker card).
You have to use the Florentine24 palette by Haboo
You have to use the template:
https://lospec.com/i/y83y
Canvas size: Exactly 48x66px. (vertical).
Colours: Max. 25 (palette + transparency).
Transparency: Required (for the corners).
Animation: Forbidden.
This time we decided to give you two weeks for the challenge. We will simply not close it next week, but leave it open for another one.
Rules for anyone who is new to this PJ tradition:
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.
Bonus challenge: While you're free to use the full two weeks, submitting on or right before 1st of April is encouraged if you can make it in time.
Canvas Size - Imitate the choices of your prank victim.
Colors - Imitate the choices of your prank victim.
Transparency - Imitate the choices of your prank victim.
Animation - Imitate the choices of your prank victim.
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
Pixel Loop 7
Draw a sprite of a robot as it was invented in past era (steampunk, medieval, in the 80's, any retrofuturistic aesthetic will do).
Links for inspiration:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_derivatives
https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Retrofuturism
Canvas size: Max. 128x240 px. (vertical or horizontal).
Colours: Max. 25.
Transparency: Required.
Animation: Forbidden.
Pixel Loop 6
Design a door that leads to another world, show hints of what lies beyond from the door.
Canvas size: Max. 200x300 vertical.
Colours: Max. 16.
Transparency: Forbidden.
Animation: Forbidden.
Pixel Loop 5
Draw an alien attempting to blend into human society, the disguise can be clever, absurd, or barely working. You will need choose Basic Shapes (Round, Oval, Triangle, Rectangle, Square or Diamond) as the Base Shapes for the Alien.
You have to use the Battery24 palette by Battery Jellyfish.
Canvas size: 192 x 128.
Colours: Max 24 (use the palette).
Transparency: Forbidden.
Animation: Optional.
Pixel Loop 4
Draw a sprite of a real-life animal but they have Evolved to have elemental magic.
Choose one https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Classical_Elemental_Magic
Although human count as animal, Human is not included in this challenge.
You have to use the Unclaimed_Baggage_08a Palette by Baggage Claim Heathrow.
Canvas Size - max 200x200 px.
Colours - 24+1 transparency.
Transparency - Required.
Animation - Optional.
For the Chinese New Year and the Year of the Horse, draw a sprite of a horse with a certain attitude that you think suits the horse zodiac personality description.
You have to use this palette made by Irena:
Canvas size: max. 120x120px;
Colors: max 13 (provided palette + transparency);
Transparency: optional;
Animation: optional.
We are pausing the Pixel Loop for a week to have a challenge invented by Queen Kami.
Love is in the air… not for all of us, but the big corporates still want us to consume the Heart themed Holiday, like it or not they’ll shove this overused holiday in your throat, but we can rebel (a little). Sooo, make a monster sprites themed around Valentine, you can make it pink, heart shaped, cute, roses. Let’s this monstrous holiday begin!
You have to use the palette Pear36 by PineappleOnPizza
Canvas Size - max 96 x 96.
Colours – 36+ 1 transparency
Transparency - Required.
Animation - Optional.
Pixel Loop 3
Draw an everyday object that’s been abandoned for years (old toy, rusted tool, broken phone) imagining how the place it abandoned change it, without telling us where it was abandoned.
Even though it changed they should have some resembles to the original object. So, you can’t draw a pile of ash when a book is abandoned in a Volcano, but a book that half burned and have Fire magic is allowed.
Please use this template, and the chosen palette below:
Canvas Size - max 96 x 96
Colours - https://lospec.com/palette-list/sweetie-16 16+1 transparency 
Transparency - Required. Please clean the template lines before submitting.
Animation - Optional.
Pixel Loop 2
Draw an animal in your (or any) language literally. e.g.: Octopus in Swedish is Bläckfisk which translates literally to Ink Fish; in Chinese it is Zh?ngyú which can be translated to Stamp/seal fish, etc. envision it as a completely new animal, a monster, an animal with items or in suroundings, whatever weird literal meaning you can get! And please tell us about the animal you drew!
If you are unsure of your ides, consult on our discord.
Canvas Size - max 100x100
Colours - open max 16+1 transparency
Transparency - Required.
Animation - Optional.
Pixel Loop 1
As you all know Tipleloop has entered our mod ranks recently, and she is entering with a bang, giving us a series of challenges designed by herself. Similarly to the Weerdmeester Masterclass series, I will be summing up all the results after the series is over, so consistency is the key to success.
In this challenge you have to design and make a postage stamp set that will represent your country, or any fantasy or real country. The image needs to be representing that country uniqueness (food, culture, plant, place or animal etc). Min of 2 stamps on the series, (country name & price need to be included.) There should be a theme that will tie all the stamps to together.
You have to use the template of the stamp frame with perforations (change the size as you need, but keep the perforation sequence consistent).
You have to use the AFR-32 Palette by Alpha6
Canvas Size - Open (depending on your number of staps, and their sizes).
Colours - Max 32+1 (palette + transparency).
Transparency - Required.
Animation - Optional.
This challenge idea by Trigonomicon was a hit. And it was quite useful for us too, so we decided to give it another go.
Your challenge is to create an icon that can be used for future news posts.
Based on our year long experience we can group icon types into 3 categories:
1) Icons that we need a significant number of, becasue we use them frequently (high chance your icon will be used):
- Top Commenter & Faves
- Monthly top art
- Generic Anouncement
- Group picture collab
- Nonspecified collab
2) Icons that we already have enough of for the rare use they need (low chance your icon will be used), however, it is totally ok to make them for this challenge, especially if you have a cool idea.
- Secret Santa
- Pixelween
- Palette contest
- ISO Collab
3) Icons we will never use, becasue they are automated and we cannot manually chose them:
- Weekly challenge anouncement, voting and awards.
Canvas size: Exactly 50x50.
Colours: Max 32.
Transparency: Encoraged, but optional.
Animation: Optional.
Take a deep dive in your pixel art folders, and excavate all the challenge pieces left there in the darkness. Bring them to life.
Finish any unfinished and yet unsubmitted challenge entry from 2025 or make a new entry for a challenge from 2025 you wanted to participate in, but couldn't.
You can make your choice by going to Weekly Challenges and checking the column on the right. The first challenge of the 2025 was "Happy News Year". Please write in the artwork description which challenge you have chosen, and make sure you follow it's rules and limitations. You can make more than one entries for more than one challenge.
Canvas Size - see the corresponding challenge
Colours - see the corresponding challenge
Transparency - see the corresponding challenge
Animation - see the corresponding challenge
If you enter the specific challenge page and look at the URL you will find a number. This is the number of the challenge and we have just reached 2000. If you also think this is amazing pelase celebrate the 2000th Pixel Joint challenge with us by creating your own!
Design your own challenge and submitt an entry following your own rules. Try to be as clear and precise as possible so everyone could follow the rules you wrote, not only you, and most importantly, the mods can verify if you are actually following your own challenge rules and qualify to be accepted. Include the standard of 4 characteristics at the end.
Canvas Size - It can be precised by "exactly", more flexible using "min", "max" or completely open.
Colors - Use a palette created by yourself or chosen form online sources, limit the colours in any other (understandable) manner or leave the palette restricted only by the general PJ rules.
Transparency - Can be "required", "optional" or "forbidden".
Animation - Can be "required", "optional" or "forbidden".
Every Secret Santa, many artists makes unique and wonderful custom wrappings. This challenge is to make it easier and less boring for people, who can't make their own, because lack of time or other reasons.
Create a Secret Santa gift wrapping template for future use, so all the artists have a library of ready-made wrappings. It needs to be a relatively simple design, that is easy to recolour, edit, and decorate. A simple box with a ribbon is prefferable, but if you have a more creative idea, go for it, however keep in mind that this wrapping needs to be versitile and universal, so it can be used by everyone, for every possible gift, that will be gifted to anyone.
You have to use a christmas 3 main colour scheme of dark green, red and gold as a base of your palette. You can choose your own colours and add couple of shades when needed, but you need at least one red, one green and one golden. You also need to add white outline (any "white" as a lightest colour will do), and you have to use transparency, since it needs to be a sprite.
Canvas Size - Max 100x100.
Colors - Max 12 because December (at least one green, red, gold + "white" outline and transparency).
Transparency - Required.
Animation - Optional (don't make it too difficult to use by future secret santas).
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
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.
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.
This week we are making a melting chocolate animation. It can be a chocolate bar or a chocolate santa or even a chocolate house.
You have to use the Chocolate Ichor palette by Qirlfriend
The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.
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