Last week we were doing beasty tetris pieces, which are made of four squares. We will continue it with beasts made of four pieces.

Draw a sprite or a scene with a fictional or mythical creature, which is a hybrid made of four different animals.

Rules:

1) You can use only parts of real animals from planet Earth, which are not human made artificial hybrids. Existing or extinct. Any fantastic beasts, especially those that are already hybrids, are forbidden to be used as parts of your 4-piece hybrid.

2) Humans are animals too, so human heads, torsos, legs, etc. may be used as part of your hybrid.

3) Each animal species may be used only once. Being too specific (for example grizzly bear + black bear + polar bear + panda bear) would be considered cheating. Please try to mix up animals that are at least significally different.

4) You have to use the Hybrid32 palette.

5) Your own inventtion for an original design is encouraged, but you are allowed to use any from the Wikipedia list of hybrids of four kinds, exactly as they are, or any other hybrid of less or more kinds, as an inspiration for your 4-piece hybrid.

The list of Hybrids of four kinds copied here for your convenience.

• Enfield – A Heraldic creature with the head of a fox, the forelegs and sometimes wings of an eagle, the body of a lion, and the tail of a wolf.
• Hatsadiling – A mythical creature with the head and body of a lion, trunk and tusks of an elephant, the comb of a rooster, and the wings of a bird.^[18]
• Kamadhenu – A creature with the head of a human, the body of a cow, the wings of a pigeon, and the tail of a peacock.
• Monoceros – A creature with the head of a deer, the body of a horse, the feet of an elephant, and the tail of a pig.
• Nue – A Japanese Chimera with the head of a monkey, the legs of a tiger, the body of a Japanese raccoon dog, and the front half of a snake for a tail.
• Qilin – A Chinese creature with the head and scales of a dragon, the antlers of a deer, the hooves of an ox, and the tail of a lion. The Japanese version is described as a deer-shaped dragon with the tail of an ox.
• Questing Beast – A creature with the head and tail of a serpent, the feet of a deer, the body of a leopard, and the haunches of a lion.
• Simurgh – A griffin-like creature of Persian mythology with the head of a dog, the body of a lion, the tail of a peacock, and the wings of a hawk.
• Taweret – The hippopotamus-headed Egyptian Goddess.
• Wolpertinger – A creature with the head of a rabbit, the body of a squirrel, the antlers of a deer, and the legs and wings of a pheasant.
• Yali – A Hindu creature with the head of a lion, the tusks of an elephant, the body of a cat, and the tail of a serpent.
• Ypotryll – A Heraldic creature with the tusked head of a boar, the humped body of a camel, the legs and hooves of an ox or goat, and the tail of a snake.

We are doing a lot of RPG party challenges, but what about monsters? This time we are making something for the party to fight with, but we are keeping the Tetris theme.

Draw 3 sprites of RPG enemies, animals, monsters, etc. with each one of them shaped in a different tetris piece of your choice. Go for stuff like a giraffe in a shape of L-piece or a snake in a shape of S-piece.

Chain of Challenges, episode 13.

We are still making avatar portraits, but the topic this time is open. It still needs to pass as a head, so humanoids, animals, robots, and monsters do count, of course, but a cabbage head will count too, or a house with two windows instead of eyes. Anything you will convincingly pass as an avatar portrait, which includes a "head" in any possible way, will be accepted. The limitation this time is technical, and it will be a hard one, so brace yourselves, pixel challengers.

All your clusters have to be built with 4 pixels and in the shape of a tetris piece. The list of different shapes is as follows: O-shape, I-shape, L-shape, J-shape, S-shape, Z-shape, and T-shape. They can be used in any possible rotation. You can use any shape as many times as you wish. You cannot place the same coloured pieces next to each other; in other words, no two same-colour pieces are allowed to touch directly. You can connect the same-shaped pieces when they are different colours, of course.

There are two exclusions to the rules above.

1) Pieces are allowed to be cut by the border. Every piece that doesn't touch the border of the canvas have to be 4 pixels and tetris shape, but pieces which do touch the canvas, may be smaller if necessary. That means 4, 3, 2, or even 1 pixel shapes can touch the border.

2) It is forbidden to use the O-shape tetris only to make the whole image. It would require just making a half-size image and doubling the size, which would be cheesing the challenge. But if you desire to limit yourself by using only I-shape pieces vertically or horizontally, or only T-shape pieces in different rotations, or any other reductive combination, you are allowed to do so. Using all of the shapes might be the most challenging, but it is not a requirement.

Because the challenge here is mostly focused on something other than palette control, the colour limit will be set to 32. Please try as much as you can to avoid almost indistinguishable colours.
 

Chain of Challenges, episode 12.

After the mobile app, the PJ Nerd needs only one thing: a new avatar. However, this time it needs to be an animal nerd portrait.

Draw a standard PJ avatar portrait of The Nerd as an animal of your choosing. It can be a nerdomorphic animal, or a zoomorphic nerd, a hybrid, a side effect of a magical spell going wrong, or a result of a mutation. It doesn't really matter. It needs to be a face of an animal with some of the Nerd's recognisable features or a face of the Nerd with some recognisable animal traits.