Jeremy has been active in PixelJoint community events, such Pixelween, Secret Santa, ISO Collabs, Street Collab, or the Weekly Challenges for almost 15 years, to critical success, often placing in the Monthly Top lists.

Another year has passed since the last April Fool's Challenge: it was not the best year ever, and the present one is already competing to become even less best. So we could use some fun, right?

This week, we want you to draw a scene that involves one or more ripples on a water surface. You can draw anything from water dripping peacefully on a pond to a meteor hitting the ocean. You can only use 16 colors from Dawnbringer's DB16 palette.

Optional Bonus Challenge: Also show the source of the ripple at the moment it's entering the water (a stone, a drop of water, a leaf, a meteor etc.)

Canvas: Max 160x90 horizontal or vertical
Colors: Max 16 only use colors from DB16 palette.

Transparency: No.
Animation: Optional

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

The Fungus Amongus 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 Fungus Amongus forum thread for more information.

The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for February 2022.

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

Bonewalker
by Cyangmou

Dream Game Mockup.
by Luca

Water Lilies
by ink

Demons Souls Fluted Armour Redesign
by Cyangmou

Tactics RPG Mockup
by Cyangmou

Plunder or Plummet
by Reo

Faces in palettes 4
by jeremy

Static Current
by Weerdmeester

On Cloudy Afternoon
by lintnaya

The Carrier
by Mis-BUG

This week's challenge comes from challenge winner Sarahboev.
We're doing a call back to the 2000s with Dolls! We want you to make your own "base" (a nude humanoid) and design at least two looks (clothing, hair, accessories etc.) on said base. You can design more than two looks if you want, go crazy!

Some sources of reference on Dolls:
-Wayuki
-KawaiiHannah
-PinkLand

Canvas: Max 135x135 for the base. The canvas size of the doll and looks combined is unlimited.
Colors: Max 32
Transparency: Required
Animation: Optional

Please note that as per PJ submission rule 7 that if your piece contains nsfw nudity there should be a warning in the preview image.

This week we want you to depict a scene where fungi have conquered the earth! For example you could make a cityscape overun by mushrooms, a cordiceps-infested zoo, sapient fungi playing chess etc. Go wild!

Canvas: Max 300 x 300
Colors: Max 16
Transparency: No
Animation: Optional

The Non-residential 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 Non-residential forum thread for more information.