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FrostPumpkin challenges you to pixel an abstract feeling or emotion.
It can be anything, an abstract work, an allegory, just show your emotional nature by pixeling an abstract feeling or emotion.

Rules:
Canvas Size: Minimum 100x100
Colors : 16 colors max but you can't use any grey or neutralizers
Transparency : none
Animation : allowed

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

It's time to head on over to the forum and vote for the latest pixel art challenge: Proportion Play.

VOTE NOW!

The Haiku Pixels 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 Haiku Pixels forum thread for more information.

The first of October finally came out the 2.6 version of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP).
This version offers several new features, user interface improvements and finally includes GEGL, a new generic graphic library that will provide support for 32bpc over the old 8bpc and future enhancement. This library is a milestone for the GIMP that makes it closer to the professional counterpart represented by Photoshop.
The interface, that has been harshly criticized by some users, has several enhancement: the application menu has been removed from the toolbox, a document windows will always be visible even with no image opened, and the floating tools windows will always be on top of the image window and cannot be obscured. Maybe these enhancement are still minimal but all this redesign is based on inputs from users and experts.
There are more improvements even on tools and options, but you can discover them downloading the latest version or even reading the official release notes.
Have fun!

Yes, the time has come, catching many of us off-guard.  So for all the procrastinators and those whose schedules just got hectic (I fall into both categories), submissions are due September 30th.  Which may very well be today, depending on your timezone.  So if you'd like to enter the show, please send your submission(s) to thereaintnocure@hotmail.com or pm them to me either here or at pixelation.  I can't promise late entries will be accepted, so send your entries as soon as possible. 
Thanks to all who entered, winners and photos from the opening will be posted sometime in October.

This week's challenge by Arachne  calls for pixelart where an animal is shown out of proportion to its surroundings.
This animal must be a true living animal which is not extinct.
For example, it could be a tiny giraffe eating your tulips, or an aquarium with whales in your living room or even enormous slugs coating the streets in slime.
Rules:
Canvas Size: No Restriction
Colors Palette: 16 colors Max.
Animation: No

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

It's time to head on over to the forum and vote for the latest pixel art challenge: Haiku Pixels.

VOTE NOW!

The Fairy Tales 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 Fairy Tales forum thread for more information.

The following pixel artists produced Pixel Joint's top rated pixel art for August 2008. Many thanks go out to this month's top pixel artists and all the members who took time to rate.

Haiku poems require the precise and thoughtful picking of each word, making sure that each is carefully placed to give the desired effect. In this way haiku are similar to pixel art. Therefore skamocore challenges you to pixel a scene based off one of the haiku from the list provided below.

Colours: 17 max
Canvas Size: exactly 50(height) x 70(length)
Transparency: No
Animation: No

Haiku to choose from:
• 1. An old pond!
A frog jumps in-
The sound of water.

• 2. No one travels
Along this way but I,
This autumn evening.

• 3. Clouds appear
and bring to men a chance to rest
from looking at the moon.
(by Matsuo Basho)

• 4. A mountain village
under the pilled-up snow
the sound of water.

• 5. A lightning flash:
between the forest trees
I have seen water.
(by Masaoka Shiki)

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

It's time to head on over to the forum and vote for the latest pixel art challenge: Fairy Tales.

VOTE NOW!

The Monumental 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 Monumental forum thread for more information.