The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for November 2021.

Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists, and all the members who took time to rate!

Harpy's Hollow
by Reo

Sunset
by ink

Lavender Town
by cure

The Dead Prince - Steam background
by Christoballs

UNTOMBED - REVEAL TEASER
by Reo

Therizinosaurus
by aamatniekss

Roses
by Evsailey

pride
by came2slide

Autumn moonrise over mountains
by Lastandir

Metroid 2 cave remake
by beetleking

Hello again!

You can now browse through the Secret Santa Gift post, available on the PJ forums:

https://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27286


Happy holidays and see you next year

This week we want you make a dancing animation with exactly 3 frames and exactly 3 colors. You can draw a single person or multiple, or even creatures or robots. It can be an existing dance or something cool or stupid you come up with

Colors: Max 3 + trans (4 total), only from the palette below

Canvas: Max 120x120 px max

Transparency: Required

Animation: Required, exactly 3 frames.

The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.

The Wummer & Sinter pixel art challenge is complete and we have three new champions. This week's challenge awards go to the following pieces:

Thanks so much to all who took the time to vote and participate in the challenge! Check out the Wummer & Sinter forum thread for more information.

Over at the PJ Discord we did a collaboration using a painting as a template.

And the painting it was based on can be found here. It is the Mariage Feast at Cana, previously attributed to Jeroen Bosch.

Hohoho!

This year's Secret Santa gifts will be revealed on stream, before being added to the PixelJoint gallery!

The stream will take place on:

December 23rd, 3PM CET

At:

https://www.twitch.tv/chrisdballs

See you there

This week we want you to pick an old sprite and reinterpret it by their pixel placement. Taking liberty to extrapolate the original intention in favor of weirdness. Make sure to link the original sprite in the submission description.

See some examples that Jinn found here.

Colors: Max 20

Canvas: Max 150x150 px

Transparency: Required

Animation: No

The challenge thread will have all the challenge updates. The thread is also a great place to post your WIPs.

The Sock Puppet pixel art challenge is complete and we have three new champions. This week's challenge awards go to the following pieces:

Thanks so much to all who took the time to vote and participate in the challenge! Check out the Sock Puppet forum thread for more information.

It's that strange time of year where the seasons change, but not equally in all places. Those on the southern hemisphere are approaching summer, whilst the northeners can already feel the cold of winter arriving.

Can you create a scene which has some elements of winter, and some of summer? For example, you could draw sunbathing people in the snow, or an ice skating ice cream vendor..

To keep it simple (since you are all working on secret santa too), you can only use 5 colors and a small canvas.

Colors: Max 5 (6 when using transparency)
Canvas: Max 100x100 px
Transparency: Optional
Animation: No

This year's Secret Santa is now open!

For those who have signed up to the event, you have until December 22nd to finish your gifts!

Follow these submission instructions carefully, to not spoil any surprises:

• When you've finished your gift, first choose Submit Pixel Art from the main site and upload your gift wrap (see Gift Wrap section here) as the preview (small) image and do not upload anything else. The description should only say “secret santa” and should not include the name of the person you’re gifting, at least until Christmas Eve.
• Note: For the Secret Santa purposes, you can upload the template gift wraps below. Still, custom wraps rock!
• Now, send your real gift to Christoballs by PM, Discord or email. You can use imgur.com, or if you can't, you can send it to c.m.kelsall@protonmail.com. We will edit and change your pixel art submission with the real one, so we can reveal all presents at the same time. Please don't post your gift anywhere else before 24th, that would spoil the surprise.
  
  This year's participants:
  - AdamF
  - ambivorous
  - b236
  - Bicho Cerote
  - Blashed
  - bypatryk
  - Christoballs
  - Clovvach
  - Eggy
  - gawrone
  - Gecimen
  - Hapiel
  - IceZeeKay
  - Irenaart
  - jeremy
  - lion95
  - marceles
  - Maye
  - Mirre
  - mupixl
  - orangemagik
  - pixl_person
  - pyrometal
  - QueenKami
  - Quiara
  - Reo
  - Salvatore
  - Sarahboev
  - Sazdx
  - SeDiceBisonte
  - shm31
  - sjd_sjd
  - skamocore
  - sushy
  - Theodote
  - tnr_12
  - Trigonomancer
  - Umbohr
  - Valentin Gendallf Krek
  - Veksell
  - vrine
  - Weerdmeester
  - Weulkin
  - Yogurt
  - yuanhai
  - zedOFF
  - zombieMode
   

Let's make a sock puppet 64x64 icon. It may look like a famous character or just have a simple, generic sock puppet appearance. If you want, you can make it resemble yourself and use it as your Pixel Joint avatar.

Colors: max 32

Canvas: exactly 64x64

Transparency: none

Animation: none

Deep within Pine Cone Forest, the adventurous Ayla and her adoring dog Falafel often made their coolest discoveries. Until one day, deep inside the forest, Ayla and Falafel stumbled upon an ominous, steel-and-stone tower... Now Falafel is being held captive by maniacal Dr. Kobushi and his henchmen and Ayla has to save him through 100+ levels of mind boggling labyrinthine levels.

With 100% pixel art graphics by Gecimen, Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory is now on Kickstarter! Be sure to check it out!