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Canvas 2025 is July 12 - Let's create something together! (pawb.social)
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Canvas is a yearly Fediverse event similar to Reddit's Place - it's a collaborative art project where any Fediverse user can place colored pixels on a shared canvas over a period of a few days. It has a dedicated community at [email protected] - the canvas itself is here.

This will be its third year; the first time, there were some minor furry drawings, and last year, we were a bit more organized, with a bit of collaboration between Pawb and Yiffit. The full canvas from last year can be seen here - we had a small spot carved out in the lower left corner, as well as a few scattered things all around.

I'd be great to actually start organized this year, and create something substantial together.

Anyone else interested in participating? Any thoughts on what we might make? Anyone with artistic skill want to sketch something out? If we can get a few ideas, maybe we vote on them prior to the event itself?

Edit: Template Here

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I tried to Pixel RAM, here is the result:
template 1 source

I also did another one, but I think the first one is better.
template 2 source

They are not very small (96px on the long side) but scaling them more down made the results to bad.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (4 children)

This is great; have you confirmed that your color palette is supported?

You've got about 4000-4500 colored pixels here, or 6650 if you're thinking to have a solid background behind it; that's a lot - you might need to trim it down to just a bust (for example) to cut the size down, unless you're planning to be super active. (There's a ~30 second cooldown between pixels you can place, so drawing something that big takes a long time. To put it in perspective, the entire area we were working on last year with 3 or 4 of us very active and a number of others popping in for shorter periods was about 7500 total pixels.

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Do you all (and anyone else, but you all have replied here) want to supply some character images, too? We can put together a collage with all of them around a paw or a slogan or something to tie it together.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I have this pixel art I did years ago

I also like this headshot I did recently

Buuuut I'm not sure how well it translates to pixel art x3

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Here's an attempt at conforming it to the Canvas color palette; could use some cleaning up, but it's quite workable.

I'd like to get a kobold or two in there, too - still mucking with it, but something like

or

Do we want to include a paw or some text or something? Furries of the Fediverse! I don't know.

We could do all of the headshots surrounding a central paw, maybe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Aw great work on cleaning up that mouse headshot!

The second kobold there is my favourite :3 And yes I love the idea of a central paw!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'm good tbh, I don't have any pixel arts to supply. We should also be careful not to take up more space than we can manage :P
Also here is last years canvas color palette as a png:
Lemmy 2024 canvas color pallete

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I found a post which has the palette in bigger + color-codes.

https://feddit.org/post/15281164

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Very helpful!

Have you got a fursona you'd potentially want to include? If you've got some non-pixel art art, I might be able to make it work. I'm not much of an artist, but I know my way around Aseprite, at least. Just don't want you to be left out!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Also maybe we should create a collage of all planned Furry-Pixels and allocate a space here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I checked the color palette and made all pixels fit. The background is transparent; so other small artworks can be integrated in the empty spaces.

I think I will start from the head and the see how far down I can go.