Weekly Graphic Challenges for YOU !
 

Anyone is free to participate in the weekly challenges I'm setting up !


Week 1:
Let's start off with a sword ! You will have to texture it.

You are free to:
-Choose your own palette
-Add extra lines to the sword (handle) while still respecting the outlines from the original image

You must:
-Finish the blade and the handle bottom
-Respect the maximum size of the whole sword, being the red rectangle
-Fully texture it.
-Respect the maximum number of DIFFERENT colours, which is 3 (ie: blue green red)

Show me your skills !

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Oh, good to try new things. Oh, I dont' remember seeing that 3 different color thing. I'll go again.

decided to try this while i was microwaving my dinner
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that one last looks cool :)

By 3 colours, is shading a gray counting for 3 colors or only 1?

I am also confused by the color rules. I asked, I didn't get an answer yet. :( When it's more clear I'll try to follow clearly.

Ok let me clear =P

-Gray is considered as a colour if its clearly different than black
-When I said 3 DIFFERENT colours maximum, I was talking about the palette limit. You can of course use different shades of green if you used green in your sword as a colour.
What is not allowed is to color your sword with like red-blue-green-yellow, because they are all different colours and you'd need to remove one.

If you didn't understand this, then I can't do anything for you o.o

Oh good. Then I didn't break the rules with my latest submission, It's Shades of Gray, Shades of Gold, Shades of Blue. So that's 3.

So yeah, here's my crappy take on this thingy. Haven't done swords in forever, so don't laff. :noob:

best i've seen so far, good work :D

Oh, gettin lil better everytime, at least I hope it's better.

wow
i literally used 3 colors (3 shades of gray)

owell, that's the only reason i did this anyways because it was easy

idk but... yeah.

Sure, why not?

It's only as easy as the amount of effort you put into it yourself :P.

I knew there was some skilled people around here.
Great job all, it's just crazy everything you can do with only one outline ;)

still working on mine =].
Maybe Elk will drop in too lol.
edit:
here's my wip,
i didn't notice the fact that the red rectangle should be the max dimensions, but if that's the case, count me out, it's way too small for me lol.

editedit:
done

editeditedit:
got it to fit in lmao.

This was really cool too do, and it was very awesome because it was like a mission. :cool:

Here's mine. :p
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Maybe the next challenge can be one that take like 30 minutes? :)

Btw, is it really a competition with a winner, or just for fun.
If it is a competition, will soala be choosing the winner?

That's not a competition and there is no prize, just read the title, it's a CHALLENGE ! :)
And yes, making it fit that red rectangle is part of the challenge too.

It's really just for fun, and you can participate whenever you have time.

ah, i see, well then this will be my entry, unless i make something better.

And the fact that it's a challenge doesn't mean anything, it's not really a challenge cuz it's not that hard to make a sword with kinds of shades fit in the red rectangle, making it look good enough to earn 1st 2nd or 3rd price is.
On pixeljoint they also have a weekly challenge, it's all about who produces the best artwork, with restrictions.

edit: or the 2nd one, i call it: The Crystal Crusherrrrr.

Yeah, I ran into that problem too. I wanted much more space than what was there.

true but I like short swords, makes them easy to implement and it fits the graal Char better

For my attempt at this first challenge, I made a dagger/blade embued with dark magic.

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wow, i'm impressed.

Have you wondered, maybe this isn't a contest at all? Maybe hes just doing this to get sword icons for maybe a server? ***** im only kidding xD good work everyone

I should try out alternate color schemes for mine. :p

Not everyone is like you. It would easily leak out they came from here, and he's just not like that.

I am working on a classic server project and swords will be disabled and replaced by only a few custom swords that will be used as tools and quest items. So no, I'm not making all this to get new weapons without working myself.

Which could maybe actually make a pretty cool server?

Everyone contributes content too a kickass server. :cool:

Won't work out. Different art styles and so on.

this made me think.
so here are different colors :p

Three colors. Crazy sword.

Alternate colors, going with all the elements...

Fire, Darkness, Wind, Water, Light, Earth
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Nice

You win

Pretty chill. :cool:

Here is my piece.
http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/2219/challenge1.png

Edit: I just read that you were only supposed to use a maximum of 3 colors...whoops.