Third! I wanted to play around with textures and shading--I like to paint, and the more I frollick in the pixel fields, the more I realize that pixel art and painting are a LOT alike. Discovering that straight-up dithering may not always be the most effective

This little dude's been sitting for years in a sketchbook as a rough pencil sketch I never bothered to finish. I feel a lot better about giving him some kind of new life.