That makes sense. I'd love to see a full mock up then.

The bit on the left isn't a full mock up.  Just a sprite/tile test to show the character displayed in the portraits.  The game has a NES-sized screen.

Both the mockup and portriat look great, but how does the portriat fit on the screen? It covers everything while it's up? Anyway, great work.

Well, as a fan of Bruce Campbell his features are pretty familar to me so I wouldn't be surprised if there was some resemblance though not intentional at the time. :P

Is it just me or this guy looks a lot like Bruce Campbell? :P

Beautiful work!

That's ok.  It's all part of the same project anyway.

 This is great work. I honestly am more drawn to the tiny people than to the portrait - not because the portrait is bad but because you conveyed so much detail in so little space with those character sprites.

 love it 

Thanks. I'm glad they are.  I really enjoy trying to make the most out of small sprites. 

This project still uses the same custom NES palette (realityC) that I chose for it way back at end of 2006. Took a while to get a hang of some of the colours and play around with different ramps but I like it a lot.

Been a while since anyone's called me that.  And bah, is my work that obvious? :P

the colors are really nice.  Do you have a palette for these or do you just make the palette as you go?

 instantly recognized as yours ;3

Pestering was the right thing to do

That's the stuff! I love how you dithered his beard.

 Instantly recognized who it was by the style, nice work Wolvie :3

 I am absolutely in love with the characters on the left!

I'm impressed with the sprites readability given the 16 pixel height.