Hey, I made it by my self, it's all pixel by pixel made! I used a tool to find the colors but I place the colors by miself, not gradient tools...
Nice work! Sadly there are too many non pixel art elements in here such as the gradients, glow, textures which make it unfit for the gallery. Do you have a 'clean' version of this piece too?
I'm sorry, the texture on the water or the sand does not resemble that at all. If you did hand place those pixels too, why did you choose to do it in such a random order? Pixels need to be placed in coherence with surrounding pixels in order for us to consider it pixel art...