Hi friends from the hive and pixelart community! today i'm bringing to you the third pixelart contest 😄💖 this week's theme will be shading and colors, the main objective of this contest is just to have fun and get better in what we love to do, our pixel art! 💖

i'll select the winner and possibly honorable mention(s) and random winner just as we do in the other weekly contests n.n

this week's prize pool is also 15 Hive thanks to Hive account@kristyglas 😊💖

I'm also accepting any donations for the prize pool n.n

For our 3rd entry on the improving skills contest we should focus on the use of colors at the moment of shading our pieces, we've seen how the shadows works and also how to use the main shapes to create wonderful things so let's go a little further and use shading on those shapes. 💖

Let's start with previous weeks winners!

As the last week there's two winners 😊

First winner: Hive account@zhoten - 10 hive

here's the link for his post! :D the farm the use of the shapes, perspective and colors gives to it a really cool 3D look, you can almost feel it like a game, awesome! ❤

Second winner: Hive account@librepensadora - 5 hive

The cartoony like space station with all the tiny details is so cute, nice use of shapes and shadows and also the little lightouse signal at the top, really nice ❤ go and check here post hire Librepensadora's post she detailed the process of the making really well too

This week there's no random winner n.n let's hope we can do one the next one <3

Thank you so much Hive account@giocondina and Hive account@atlantiss for taking part on this contests! :D it makes me so happy to see them growing n.n i hope to see your entries again for this one 💖

So, why shading? and how we should use the color?

I'm gonna use the same image as i did on the shapes because there's the 3 main elements that we've seen the last 2 weeks, the top line shows the basic shapes, really nice, you can identify each one of them, a square, a circle and a triangle. On the middle line there's the shadows it's not a square anymore but a cube, the circle became a sphere and the triangle a pyramid just with a little shadows and rotation the main 2D shapes became 3D. but that is no the end of it.

when we talk about shading we can think of it like a more complex way to use shadows, you can use a variety of ways to shade an object, speaking of colors you can use monochromatic as seen in the bottom line, which are variations of the same color or analogue ones as can be seen in this little icon a little rock where i use analogue colors to the main orange, the yellow ones to the lights and the purple ones to dhe shadows.

Hee i use monochromatic colors to shade the helm, these are just examples, feel free to try it in the way you see fit for your work, anything is valid 💖

for reference on the colors you can use adobe color

The minimum prize pool is 15 hive and all the donations will be added to it :3

and as in every weekly contest:

• Most important- Only Original Art!!
• No copying other pixelart
• You can use photo reference (CC0 photos recommended).
• Non-traditional pixelart is welcome: like color pencils on paper (or voxel)
• No auto-pixel filters/programs allowed
• At least 1 art progress picture
• Comment on any Pixelart community post (other than my posts), lets improve the engagement and positivity :)
• Make a post in Pixelart community (or crosspost)
• Share your art preview and post link the comments so I don't miss it
• Use pixelart as one of your tags.

I'm a beginner too so remember just to have fun but also put some effort on your posts so you'll have a chance to get curated :D

The deadline for this contest will be next tuesday around the same time this post was created then i'll picke the winner(s) n.n

Also don't forget to have some fun with the october prompt list
its almost finishing n.n
promptlist source :3

You can follow me on twitter i upload my work there too and also some giveaways for the NFT community n.n
Also can found me on rarible 💖