Hair cleaned up, think i should keep the blue in there or just colour normally? The shirt was experimenting along the same vain, though obviously not successfully.

Eck: You do realize that the first part of this competition is only to come up with the template for the smilies. So other people can do the smilies themselves later. (hence this only being part 1).

For the first part of this activity, we simply need a smiley template for being able nail all the other smilies afterwards (which are about 41 if memory serves me well). So, long story short, you will have 2 weeks to come up with smiley designs you would like to see used on Pixelation. Then, we will pick our favorite and carry on with the second part.

So far my vote goes to Lawrence for those charmingly constructed smilies.

Goddam those entry's...  Thats brain exploding goodness that is.
final round will certinly be something.

Made 2 quick edits



I got rid of the outer AA, removed a pointless shade (on the outline) and added some simple shading and colours. (oh and made the skull a little shorter).

AA to white doesn't really work with smilies because the fact they have to go on a variety of coloured backgrounds. on away around this is to AA inwardly or simply, like the smilies we have here, surround them with a small 1x pixel white outline. e.g 

I just wanted to say that this is looking very nice. keep up the good work!