I am a pixel-art noob... as you can tell with this as my second submission.  I have been playing with some different styles and shading techniques.  It really does require a lot of patience to get these things looking decent doesent it! Some of the artists on this site are just incredible. This is something completley new and compelling to me. I kind of feel like I am moving backwards as I origninally drew and did digital painting and now I am intruiged with pixel art.  I am inspired daily by the new submissions here and welcome and critique  (although this being such a small peice im not sure there will be much to say! :)  )