This July marks the 74th anniversary of the appearance of the first Green Lantern character. So, this week, create a sprite of your own non-humanoid* Green Lantern character. Also, your character design must include the Green Lantern logo somewhere.

For inspiration, here is a list of all Green Lantern Corps members.

*Avoid creating upright-standing characters that have a torso attached to two arms, two legs, and a head.

Canvas Size - Max 74 x 74.
Colours - Max 20.
Transparency - Required.
Animation - Optional.

This year is the 40th anniversary of the Rubik's Cube. Create something using one of the cube net templates below, however, you must also use all six Rubik's Cube colours.

Canvas Size - Use one of the following templates (90° rotation or flipping are allowed):

 

Colours - Min 7; Max 25. Must use all six of the colours shown in each of the template images above.
Transparency - Required. Must only be used outside your chosen shape.
Animation - Optional.

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

Crowdsourcing tee-shirt design site Threadless hosts an exciting new contest: Your challenge is to create a tee design inspired by a video game you make up!

The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for May 2014. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.

 

Night Shop by Drazelic

All About the Journey by tyrant

NES Megaman Redo Mockup by Snake

Another ISO landscape by Fidorka69

Mine by FrostPumpkin

Solus by slym

Forever Tree by FlyGuy

BOOMer by IGoRge

Assassins Creed Fan art by Charlie_pl

Legends of the Hidden Temple by FlyGuy

After several months of work and a few issues such as artist or developers being sick, we finally made it! 
Midora is now back on Kickstarter, and we have great plans for the game. But we need your help!

Create a game mockup showing the final boss encounter of a turn-based game.

Canvas Size - Max 120 (height) x 200 (width).
Colours - Max 25.
Transparency - No.
Animation - No.

(Note: I'm french. So... bad. English.)

Hey you, if you are looking for a good pixel-art, go away. I am bad at this. Really ! I use other people's palettes, I use paint.net (but I don't even know how to use it...)... In short: I am NOT an artist. I just made this account because I really like this forum :D

This week's collection of PJer finds.

Create a still life image featuring at least two objects made out of glass.

Optional Bonus Challenge - Include multiple glass objects placed in front of one another.

Canvas Size - Max 175 (height) x 200 (width).
Colours - Max 24.
Transparency - No.
Animation - No.

PJer atei, Co-Founder of 43kstudios, a fresh independent 2-Man development team from Pennsylvania, USA. have just released their first universal app onto the iOS marketplace.

Broforce is a promising new pixel art shoot'em up under development by Free Lives.

Free online trial version of upcoming "Bro Force" shoot'em up

Challenge winner, pavanz, wants you to depict a well-known musical group as a fantasy RPG party. You can just create the individual sprites or incorporate them into a scene.

Canvas Size - Unrestricted.
Colours - Max 26.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.