I recently lost a good friend who tragically died a couple weeks ago. She was known as user: Faxmebabe. I made this piece as a dedication to her memory that was featured on our twitch channel (of which she was a mod and a retro game fan) The whole piece was completed in under four hours shortly after I was made aware of the news.
There was no specific mindset going into this piece or huge plan. It was off-the-cuff and I think it works better that way. Sometimes, I get so inundated with pre-planning that I tend to not let a lot of my work grow organically and just have fun with the piece. A process I am seldom familiar with anymore since the vast majority of my work is created under client restrictions or involves lots of research (accuracy and the lot).
4 Colour • Gameboy Style • Fax Machine based on a model from 1988 (the year Faxme was born)
She will be missed! | 
Appreciate the kind words fellas! Pixelling tends to have a very lulling almost hypnotic thing for me some days and I just get lost in it. Our group was hit pretty hard and I can often tell how much it bugs them 'cause they often say very little. That is why a piece like this is sometimes the best way to express our collective feeling regarding the situation.
I also love that small projects like these serve as good distraction from other projects. Currently, I'm working on an original NES mock-up that is making my eyes bleed. The goal is to have a demo of the start menu in full working order, hopefully in a week or two.