Color palette challenge!
This is an official contest organized by the PMC skinning association




end date; the 13th of January 2013

Hello PMCSA members and visitors! :3
I came up with a new contest for you guys to join in, and its very different from usual contests.
You don't get a theme, no guidelines and not even rules concerning what the skin has to be of >:3, all you get is a color palette!

So why just a color palette?

Norique, a friend of mine, came up with the idea of several people making a skin with the same color palette. I immediately loved that idea :3 I would love to see how much people can do with a limited amount of colors. It will look like one epic collection of skins that look-alike-but-are-completely-different.
Also I think that accepting this challenge will be a good experience for skinners that have trouble coloring their skins or have trouble getting enough contrast into their skin.

The palette


This is the palette everyone is gonna have to work with. It includes:

- orange
- light blue
- deep blue
- two browns
- white (shaded yellow-ish)
- black (shaded blue-green-ish)
- grey (gradient)
- gold/yellow
- a little green
- skin-color
- the base balck and white

The palette is made using a HUE-shift and quite a contrast. I tried to include as much colors as possible though I may do a color palette challenge again with fewer colors >:3.

You can get the palette on a skin template here

Additional rules

- Only use the colors in the color palette; work with a color-picker (preferably work with MCskin3D)
- You can work with transperency, as long as you don't blend colors (don't blend orange and blue, but you can blend dark-orange with light-orange or dark-green with light-green)
- You can use the base black and white to darken and lighten
- You can NOT use a noise tool on your skin
- In MCskin3D you can not use the burn/dodge tool
- You don't have to use all colors, you are free to use just a few, or all of them

Once you've made your entry you will have to PM me, and I'll add your entry to the list below;


Prizes?

-The people who are in the PMCSA as a member, will have their link added on the members' list by joining in the contest.
- The maker of the best skin -excluding skins made by elite members- will be invited to become an elite member in the association.
- The top 3 most original will be mentioned at the end of the contest and that way get a lot of recognition out of this
- Pixel-art-trophies for the 'about me's' of the top 3
- I will try to provide a participation badge for on the 'about me's' of the people that entered.



The judging will be done by 3 experienced skinners -including me- and due voting we'll decide which skins are the best :3
There will be judged on most creative use of the palette and best concept, but also on the shading technique -so no messy shading please :3-