Pixel Maynia 2026 - Fri, May 1, 2026

Pixel Maynia is a month long pixel art event with one them per day to challenge you! Only by consistent practice can we get better at anything we do, so this is your opportunity to become great at pixel art! 

The official Pixel Maynia discord server: https://discord.gg/mAj8bRsKGs

Official Themes:

Machine

Include an item that could make our lives better : More Orange JUICE !!!

Machine.png

Don’t Let Go

Try to make the viewer feel sad : idk maybe it does, kinda for me.

Dont let go 1.png

  1. Hacker

  2. Ring

  3. Disassemble

  4. Good view

  5. It’s my favorite

  6. By itself

  7. Better than the alternative

  8. Go Back

  9. Too low!

  10. Dance

  11. Mask

  12. Time travel

  13. Let’s get cracking!

  14. That fast eh?

  15. Perfection

  16. Illusions

  17. Lost

  18. Change

  19. Persistent

  20. Abyss

  21. Stay together!

  22. Unstable

  23. Why is it empty?

  24. Does this work?

  25. Oh that’s gold

  26. Oh so good

  27. Against all odds

  28. Birb

  29. Oath

Official Optional Constraints:

  1. Use this palette:: https://lospec.com/palette-list/honeygb

  2. Repeat something (in the art or from the past)

  3. Use exactly 8 colors

  4. Trace the outline of something unusual and keep it in your image. (you don’t have to draw the thing you outlined, but the outline must remain, even if it ends up being the outline of something completely different.)

  5. Use this palette: https://lospec.com/palette-list/ephemera

  6. Pick a color palette you feel uncomfortable with

  7. Add a sparkle effect (it doesn’t need to be animated, just sparkly, you decide what that means.)

  8. Include a window

  9. Your subject must suggest motion. (You don’t have to animate it, but the image must capture something that would otherwise be moving if it wasn’t a still image.)

  10. Have two light sources somewhere in your image

  11. Have a set of something as your main subject.

  12. Keep the perspective above the subject

  13. Include a plant of some sort in your image

  14. Take an IRL picture, use that as a reference for something in your image

  15. Follow the theme, but also create an original character

  16. Include a reflection

  17. Make it a dutch tilt. (Tip the image to an angle so the horizon or floor is slanted for dramatic effect)

  18. Include at least one person in the image

  19. Bright colors on the left, dark colors on the right.

  20. Make the composition feel disorienting.

  21. Include a secondary subject in the background

  22. Make two, each with different colors

  23. Include smoke or steam in your image.

  24. Make it seem like it’s windy or raining or both

  25. Use a tall canvas

  26. Use this palette: https://lospec.com/palette-list/cable-01

  27. Give the composition an unusual amount of white space

  28. Turn it into a playing card

  29. Convey at least 2 textures. (metallic, fabric, leather, latex, plastic, wooden, etc)

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