Sprite Jam: A work of art (WINNERS)

Blondbraid · Fri 07/10/2016 22:32:53

Hello everybody! I've had a really, really hard time to decide a theme for the sprite jam, but I hope you find this challenge interesting:

The sprite shall be an adaption of a character from a classical painting!
You may re-interpret the figure or remake it in your own style, but the entry must:

1. Contain enough elements so that the sprite is recognizable as an adaption of the original painting.

2. Contain an image or link to the original painting.

If you feel short on inspiration, I couldn't resist including a few pictures of some of my favorite artists:

From left to right: "The little foot-page" by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, "The Bewitched Man" by Francisco Goya, "The temptation of S.t Anthony" by Max Ernst, "Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog" by Caspar David Friedrich,
"Lot and His Daughters" by Albrecht DÃ¼rer, "The witches' Sabbath" by Francisco Goya and "Algerian Women in Their Apartments" by EugÃ¨ne Delacroix.

Good luck and hope you have fun!

Winners get these trophies:

Gold:

Silver:

Bronze:

Babar · Sat 08/10/2016 16:10:32

I am not sure I can work on this any more...my knowledge of pixelling cloth folds has reached its limits. So, in EGAish (14 of the available 64) colours:
[imgzoom]https://i.imgur.com/NaJ2KMJ.gif[/imgzoom]
Hopefully recognisable!

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It is The Girl with the Pearl Earring

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Blondbraid · Sat 08/10/2016 16:54:15

Quote from: Babar on Sat 08/10/2016 16:10:32
Hopefully recognisable!

Beautiful! Is it a Girl with a pearl erring by Vermeer?
Please remember to add a link to the painting you based your sprite on, or if you can't find an image that fits,
at least add the title and name of the artist to your post so that people can compare the two.

But otherwise, it's some very nice pixel-art and it's hard to believe that you only used 14 colors!

Babar · Sat 08/10/2016 17:09:54

Thanks, Blondbraid! Yes, you are right in your guess. I avoided posting what it was to figure out if people could guess, but then I saw you had mentioned a link in your rules, so I've added one now.

Blondbraid · Sat 08/10/2016 18:33:33

Quote from: Babar on Sat 08/10/2016 17:09:54
Thanks, Blondbraid! Yes, you are right in your guess. I avoided posting what it was to figure out if people could guess, but then I saw you had mentioned a link in your rules, so I've added one now.

Great! I guess if anyone else want to make people guess first, you can put it under a spoiler tag.

Creamy · Fri 14/10/2016 21:54:14

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Croquet by James Tissot.

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Blondbraid · Sun 16/10/2016 11:32:26

Nice one Creamy! Is it painted by hand?

I have also made trophies now:

Creamy · Sun 16/10/2016 16:42:49

Lovely trophies. I like Babar's pearl lady, is she barefoot?

My picture was drawn with a pencil and felt pens, then edited on computer.

Babar · Sun 16/10/2016 22:29:15

Quote from: Creamy on Sun 16/10/2016 16:42:49
Lovely trophies. I like Babar's pearl lady, is she barefoot?

My picture was drawn with a pencil and felt pens, then edited on computer.

Thank you, yes, she is barefoot! All the better to go padding around the house in

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Your croquet girl is awesome too, you took one sort of painterly style, and converted into another sort of painterly style.
And yeah, cool trophies, Blondbraid! Although I can't tell, are they also based off classial paintings?

Blondbraid · Mon 17/10/2016 14:17:37

Quote from: Babar on Sun 16/10/2016 22:29:15
And yeah, cool trophies, Blondbraid! Although I can't tell, are they also based off classial paintings?

I made them look like classic portraits to go with the theme of the contest, but I didn't base them on any particular paintings. In general I just tried to draw pictures that would look good in small size, but pixel-art isn't really my strong point, so I just made larger images and scaled it down.
I do hope you like them!

NightHawk · Fri 21/10/2016 15:05:58

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American Gothic - Grant Wood

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Blondbraid · Fri 21/10/2016 16:10:37

Nice one, but how come the picture is laying on it's side?

NightHawk · Fri 21/10/2016 23:33:54

Maybe it is too tall for the forum. It loads correctly if you right click and open it in a new tab.

Mandle · Mon 24/10/2016 16:27:08

Rough and ripped and extremely non-PC and NSFW:

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Original Work and Artist:

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"Napalm" ~ Banksy

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Kumpel · Thu 27/10/2016 15:13:01

Here is mine!

Has been really fun to do this!

If anybody finds the missing frame: Please give it back!

[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/oyvfXI3.gif[/imgzoom]

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I guess you all know the Penrose Stairs. The artist I tributed to is the great and unique M. C. Escher. He drew "Relativity" in 1953.

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Blondbraid · Fri 28/10/2016 22:46:57

Great to see more entries!

Avirosb · Fri 28/10/2016 22:50:46

I'm working on mine.
Hopefully I manage to complete it before the 4th.

Blondbraid · Thu 03/11/2016 09:07:56

Just a friendly reminder to everyone working on their sprites that the deadline is tomorrow!

Avirosb · Fri 04/11/2016 07:33:02

Forgive me for asking but I tend to confuse the meaning of certain words:
Does deadline mean "up until" or "show your work, right NOW!"?

In case of the latter, I may have possibly missed the deadline.
Can I still upload my work however, if I specifically tell people not to vote for it?

Danvzare · Fri 04/11/2016 10:03:10

Quote from: Avirosb on Fri 04/11/2016 07:33:02
Forgive me for asking but I tend to confuse the meaning of certain words:
Does deadline mean "up until" or "show your work, right NOW!"?

In case of the latter, I may have possibly missed the deadline.
Can I still upload my work however, if I specifically tell people not to vote for it?

As long as voting hasn't begun yet, I'm sure it'll be fine to upload your work now.

Blondbraid · Fri 04/11/2016 10:18:44

Don't worry, you can upload your work. I'd be a shame to miss it just because you were confused about the deadline.

Avirosb · Fri 04/11/2016 14:23:45

Finally. Sorry for the wait.
[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/XYmREj1.png[/imgzoom]

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It's 'Self-portrait' by Joseph Ducreux.

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-This is far from finished but given the circumstances I deem it acceptable enough to upload.
-Once again a process of trial-and-error with a limited palette (the standard Paint colors).
-You can see where most of the time and details went into.
-I'm happy about the pose, which ain't 100% copy/paste but still fairly recognizable.
-I have never been good with clothes, in fact I'm not even sure what that particular fashion is called.
-Had to improvise from the waist down, using referential material seen here and here.

Oh, and since I should technically be disqualified, vote for someone else. I just wanted to show off

Have a great day.

Gilbert · Fri 04/11/2016 19:24:10

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I've read your spoilers, but it's obviously Einstein to me!

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It looks really awesome anyway. Too bad you didn't finish it.

Blondbraid · Sat 05/11/2016 17:28:02

The time to vote is here, winners receive following trophys:

Contestants are:
1. Girl with a Pearl earring by Babar (original work by Vermeer)
[imgzoom]https://i.imgur.com/NaJ2KMJ.gif[/imgzoom]
2. Croquet by Creamy (original work by James Tissot)

3. American Gothic by NightHawk (original work by Grant Wood)

4. A Banksy by Mandle (original work by Banksy)

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5. Relativity by Kumpel (original work by M. C. Esher)

6. Self-portrait by Avirosb (original work by Joseph Ducreux)

Vote for the first, second and third place for the entry which you think made the best re-interpretation of a classical artwork.
Voting ends on November 11th.

Amayirot Akago · Sat 05/11/2016 18:15:39

1. Kumpel
2. Avirosb
3. Babar

Avirosb · Sat 05/11/2016 20:56:53

2. Croquet by Creamy

Creamy · Sat 05/11/2016 22:19:27

1st : Avirosb
2nd : Kumpel
3rd : Babar

I've rotated and reuploaded NightHawk's picture :

Babar · Sun 06/11/2016 02:14:33

1.Creamy
2.Kumpel
3.Avirosb

Gurok · Sun 06/11/2016 02:48:34

1st: Babar
2nd: Avirosb
3rd: Mandle

Danvzare · Sun 06/11/2016 11:55:44

1st: Kumpel
2nd: Avirosb
3rd: Babar

Grok · Sun 06/11/2016 13:20:21

1. Self-portrait
2. American Gothic
3. Girl with a Pearl Earring

Twirlly · Sun 06/11/2016 18:00:42

1. Croquet by Creamy
2. Girl with a Pearl earring by Babar
3. Relativity by Kumpel

Kumpel · Sun 13/11/2016 16:48:20

1. Babar
2. NightHawk
3. Creamy

selmiak · Sun 13/11/2016 20:05:40

1. Kumpel
2. Babar
3. Avirosb

Mandle · Sun 13/11/2016 22:27:13

1: Kumpel
2: Babar
3: Creamy

Blondbraid · Mon 14/11/2016 17:50:27

I have counted the votes and here are the winners:

1st

Relativity by Kumpel
You receive the gold trophy:

2nd

Girl with a pearl earring by Babar
You receive the silver trophy:

3rd

Self-portrait by Avirosb
You receive the bronze trophy:

I wish to thank you all for your votes and participation!

Cassiebsg · Mon 14/11/2016 17:53:31

Congrats everyone on the works of art!

Sorry I didn't vote, but I just couldn't vote on one art being better than another, so...

Danvzare · Mon 14/11/2016 19:03:21

Congratulations you all.

Creamy · Tue 15/11/2016 00:06:36

Bravo to the winners!
I like how Kumpel's trophy is as big as his work of art

Kumpel · Tue 15/11/2016 17:56:26

Holy Moly! Thanks guys! I never thought, I would win this one, after seeing all these great entries.

Next Sprite Jam is coming soon!

Avirosb · Thu 17/11/2016 08:46:54

Nice, bronze matches my sprite.