Visual Reference: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JWQ7kJkj0HM/TJ6pQj0bmeI/AAAAAAAAAmA/4hiyveISRpA/s1600/Mario8BitSprite.png

Thanks Tanuki

This looks good but, at first I thought this was just an edit of the original mario sprite, because it's so close to what the original looks like. After comparing it looks like there's some differences. I'm not sure if it's different enough to be accepted, but you should probably still list your references.