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

Hacker

Use this palette:: https://lospec.com/palette-list/honeygb cheated with the CRT effect but i dont care.

Hacker.png

Ring

Repeat something (in the art or from the past) : there is only repetition, from the past, to the future…

Ring 1.png

Disassemble

Use exactly 8 colors yep, and it was flippin hard

Disassemble.png

Good View

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.) : Cany you see it ? I’ll reveal if you ask me kindly

Good view.png

It’s My Favorite

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

Its my favorite.png

By Itself

Pick a color palette you feel uncomfortable with : https://lospec.com/palette-list/101-tilez. I don’t like bright palette with little colors. and i chose the palette before i had the idea

By itself.png

Better than the Alternative

Add a sparkle effect (it doesn’t need to be animated, just sparkly, you decide what that means.)
That game is a sparkle, but just to be sure i have also added one (less sparkly than the game though)

Better than the alternative.png

Go Back

Include a window : yep

GO BACK.png

Too Low!

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.) : So Technically… they did move, like there was motion soooo…

Too low.png

Dance (?)

Have two light sources somewhere in your image : wont lie, had no time no inspiration so i cheated in every way i could.

Dance.png

Mask

Have a set of something as your main subject : Nop.

Mask.png

Time Travel

Keep the perspective above the subject. I legit dont know which way the perspective should have been, i’ll convince myself that i did it correctly

Time travel.png

Let’s Get Cracking!

Include a plant of some sort in your image

Lets get cracking.png

That Fast Eh?

Take an IRL picture, use that as a reference for something in your image : Done ! (kidding)

That fast eh.png

Perfection

Follow the theme, but also create an original character : Fight me

Perfection.png

Illusions

Include a reflection

This one is empty, and like this it shall remain until the end of the month. i fell for the most benign sin : openfront.io, and for it this am punished. may this empty section remind me that convenience bear no fruits.

Lost

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

Lost.png

  1. Change

  2. Persistent

  3. Abyss

  4. Stay together!

  5. Unstable

  6. Why is it empty?

  7. Does this work?

  8. Oh that’s gold

  9. Oh so good

  10. Against all odds

  11. Birb

  12. Oath

Official Optional Constraints:

  3. Include at least one person in the image

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

  5. Make the composition feel disorienting.

  6. Include a secondary subject in the background

  7. Make two, each with different colors

  8. Include smoke or steam in your image.

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

  10. Use a tall canvas

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

  12. Give the composition an unusual amount of white space

  13. Turn it into a playing card

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

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