stop it, go talk somewhere else like this c.c

But the thread is enjoyable reading now :(

vixen !

The finished monkey!
ONLY 12 COLORS! INCLUDING TRANSPARENCY!
http://www.pixelnerd.com/pixels/Monk...hed_Banana.png

Awesome shape, but the eyes and mouth are a bit odd. Perhaps use a lighter color for the lower pixel are of the lips, and for the eyes use darker colors.

Also; the thumb is far too bug, fix it, please.

As always, awesome shading. <3

The only thing I personally would add is a darker outline, but that's just me, I have some sort of outline-fetish. x_x

Cant you see thats his style?

A big thumb doesn't count as a style... -_-;

It could be...he could draw big thumbs on every humanoid thingy he draws, it could be his trademark, *****.

...I still think that foot looks like a swenis x_x

Edited: Lip colors flipped, darkened eye pupils - still 12 colors

Edited:
http://www.pixelnerd.com/pixels/Monk...ed_Banana2.png

Original:
http://www.pixelnerd.com/pixels/Monk...hed_Banana.png

It counts as part of his style...

Hands can be a very expressional part of the body along with the eyes and the face. For example, one of my (middle) fingers is expressing something at you (and scott) right now...

Ah I like alot of what I have seen so far. :)

Scott, could you clarify something for me? What um did I say to cause you to question whether it was 15 or 16 colors? I'm confused x_x

It was about the 11 color thing, I misread thinking you might of said "The limit is now 11 colors" or something along those lines.

Goboom, I like the big thumb part. It adds a goofy/surreal feel like the rest of your monkey does. I would suggest adding a circle-esque shape to the end of the thumb to add some nice eye candy. Eyes are still too dark for my liking though.

Donald, it's amazing how much offense you can take over an internet forum. You need to keep your cool (lol?), and learn not to take people so seriously over forums. Especially these.
^^

And there it is again, your evil plot to make me look stupid and lame because I take everything seriously, I'm on to you!

Clever bastard. :rolleyes:

Donald's avatar is being rude to me. :frown:

ahahaha donald cracks me up. On another note, damn, i really should try drawing a monkey of my own soon, instead of spamming up these forums :O

well DUH. lemme try a bandit Monkay >=D,ill be posting soon!

I tried last night...

Ever cook a pizza in the toaster oven, and it comes out really burnt, and ugly?

That's what it looked like!

he found it?, yea right, mr. long fingers stole it c.c

:O is text allowed, zen? Does text-added humour count towards anything? x_x

macintosh doesnt have a plug in to display png's. gif works though.

Two more edits on my monkey. 14 colors now :-(
Edit 1:
http://www.pixelnerd.com/pixels/Monk...ed_Banana3.png

Edit 2:
http://www.pixelnerd.com/pixels/Monk...d_NoBanana.png

You guys are wasting your time with these leet drawings. We all know my two entries are the real winners. Give it up you can never be as good as me.

On the real note, that looks great goboom.

About txt, I guess that depends on how you use it. Butz used some and the way that was used was perfectly fine.

Txt descriptions doesnt really add to the artwork's value in my opinion, though. We are judging a peice of art, remember..

Looks good goboom but theres one thing thats annoying me....
where is his shoulder on the arm with the thumbs up o_o

Immaturity?

Lets not argue so friggin much in this thread please.

Donald..dont get so worked up.

Thank you Zen! I was getting annoyed with it.

Hmm thats odd scott please direct me to where I said I needed "657659043 colors". Nope didn't think so. Well if you think that an 8 bit color is better than a 256 one or 16 million one than I should say you need to have your head checked.

Yeah yeah sure I bet your gonna try to give us all a sermon on how you slave and labor to make your "pixel art" look good with using as few colors as you can well there is ovbiously something wrong with this picture.

I can make a better piece of art twice as fast as you can yet you think you are more skill-full because you do it the old fashion way. This is like an Amish farmer ragging on the big corprate farming company because they use tractors.... I will fill you in there is no right way to make gfx it all how you look at it.

Pixels are pixels no matter how many you use and it is sad with the tools we have avalibale there are still people trying to opress technology by pleading the old and tired "well we do it the right way" defense...

Having a good knowlage of pixel art can be helpfull becasue you know better what looks good and what looks bad and more importantly why it looks good or why it looks bad. There it nothing wrong with using the new sorts of tools to make art but what pisses me off is when people say that their way is the right way and is better.

Art is a very subjective thing so by having contests and saying who and who is better really proves nothing. To be a good artist you should get to the point where you want to make something and you can make it how YOU wanted it to be made. Sure there are some basics to all "good" art or "popularly praised" art like the monolisa but Ill explain that later.

But only if you are the only one who will be looking at that piece of art.

*goes back on topic*

Can we please get this thread back on topic?This is a graphics challenge!
Zen maybe the challenge could be split into two threads, one for just the graphics and another for commenting.

There's style types in art. Surreal, abstract, digital abstract, pop culture, propaganda, and of course many others. Pixel art refers to classical "Pixelation" methods.(Or atleast that's what I've seen and read from all the pixel art communities.:\ ) As seen in games like Street Fighter, SNK, or many fighting games. Sure, everyone can do what they want when it comes to art. However, if you're going to join a style and practice it, make sure you're following tradition. That's how I look at it. As said before, you're taking me too seriously. You get worked up over trivial things, you don't know me and I don't know you. ^____^

On a side note: Too bad I missed the forge thread.

Thank god you missed the forge thread ^^.

Ah good times... Good times... *sigh*

That was a quick "break" from the forums. ^^

Wow, scott/donald - those are some amazing monkeys.

That would be too confusing at this point. But that will be an important change in the 2nd edition of this contest. As I said, I would try to work off this test run to see how to best conduct future contests. So thanks for that suggestion.

And, once again. STOP ARGUING? :whatever: