Frig, dude. There's no need at all to be so picky. Or literal, for that matter.

The artist decided to pixellate some graffiti on a wall. It represents what he knows as graffiti, namely someone tagging a structure with their sign or name or whatever. I don't really know what you're trying to say about the do's and dont's of graffiti, but I do know that you've made little to no effort to point out what you don't like about the pixel art itself. You've just claimed that its not pixel art or graffiti. What, you expect him to spray-paint his monitor and send us a picture?

Also, I had to battle through what you wrote to figure out what you said. At least Truth could spell, and was very clear about his arguments, however corrupt they seemed.

Alright, on to the actual C&C. What's with the top of the wall? Not sure what's going on there. Looks like shorter bricks...

All of the painted area is completely flat, definitely add the rises and dips of the brick. You probably knew that, but I say it anyways.

The circle in your target is off-center, and the target could use some AA. Also, why is it that the last letter is the only one without design in it? Oh, and the purple letter's inner design looks pretty jagged.

I gave you the CC, like two times at least and still you don't notice it, only thing you see are all those "off" words.

I repeat myself again.

Do not use automated opacy on pixelart, it doesn't give you the right tones and it usually messes up the shadows. It loses the contrast, as for this seem to be important for you all.

That writing just doesn't seem to "fit" on that wall. There are no brick shadows on the letters, as I have said before.

And I already told you that this reminded me those old Pepes works at first glance. You can consider this as a good thing though...

Got it now?

On the letters, there are no shadows, still, only the lines of bricks.

And the white outline could still use some contrast a bit, as white is a really contrasty color, so, it darkens out every inner-curve.

Inkspot has been warned.

Now let's keep this thread on topic please.

Tried a crack at deconstructing what I found to be some key issues for me on this image.
Firstly, you really need to do some research on graffiti and find some reference images online of some kickass artists all over the globe that do this for a living.

Anyways, I've explained myself visually here:

1. First, I removed the background and cleaned up the image
2. Segregated the first letter to show as an example
3. removed silly pink polka dots (have you ever seen a graffiti artist make polka dots???) and added simple (and quick) dark grey border to the letter. You can use any colour you'd like but, I've always seen a black or white tone to outline letters.
4. some quick pixels to showcase paintspills dripping and some dithering to show the blend of dark grey and the red.
5. larger verison of #4
6. NEW bricks. Keep it simple but add some details.
7. Overlapped the bricks and changed colour tone to match red and grey areas. There should be definite indentations that aren't seen in your original.

Again, I didn't want to redo the picture for you. I just wanted to quickly pixel what could be done to make it esthetically more pleasing. I hope this helps!

Ryan, in the end it's about what looks good and what doesn't for me. The opacity doesn't work well with this one I do agree but, it is just an example to show how there needs to be definition in the bricks. Definite indentations as I said. Also, a lack of limited colour palettes don't make something not "true" pixelart. The only time you NEED limited palttes are when you are doing work for games or other program images that have palette limitations built into them... though I agree again that it is good practice.

I agree that making this piece on a flat surface to begin with might be a good idea. Perfect the graffiti, then add extra details.

Yes, wall detail is lost, but well, it depends on a wall too. Depends on a brick type or tehere is no brick at all.

Anyway, if you want crits only on graffiti side, then why post a wall at all? Graffiti is not drawn as on the wall, only final production is on the wall, but the wall itself is not a part of graffiti. So as I read from the first post, the thread starter wanted main comments to be on graffii side, he wants to improve graffiti letters etc.

So, why bother a wall at all?