Edit: reduced amount of colors from 35 to 22 (noticed that there were a lot mistakenly put colors, mostly when I was fixing the lightest colors to look better with the white bg I accidently left some pixels of the original color)

Here's the progress animation

reference -painting done by Carnegriff on DA

When I finished that Little Octo piece of mine, I seen some painting similar to one I used as reference, and I always wanted to make a pixeled version of such a painting.. I started working on this while I didn't have internet, and I couldn't get a reference picture.. so I finished it now that I managed :)

There's almost definitely something wrong with the nose.. but oh well xD