I always said Admins are dumb here :)

I'm several years late but I assume it was rejected because it appeared really noisy. I beg to differ - even if it's noisy, I think it works for this piece. It looks appropriately detailed especially with only 2 colors. And considering they have previously created multiple well-done pieces, I would very much doubt they didn't know what they were doing with this one.

shouldn't have been rejected

People sometimes just don't get it. This piece follows its own technique. I really liked the combo preview and larger skull was cool.

This was rejected? Odd. I think it's well pixelled and creepy.