You probably get this question a lot so I apologise, but I have to know - where do you start when it comes to making your palette? The red cloth highlighted with pale purple and light grey, the face with two grey tones to transition between deep red and pink - it works so well and - as a person who grasps the basic idea of 'blues and purples for shadows, yellows for highlights' - I can't wrap my head around how you reach this conclusion. Above all else I want to praise your economic reuse of colours.

Since this picture was created for a weekly challenge, do you look back on this submission and see room for improvement if you had the extra time?

Quite nuts how well this fits!

Great stuff, man.

Congrats to 200 pieces!

Woah! I love how well you were able to fit this great piece of art within the country so smoothly, great job done!

Hahaha, yes. I always pictured a version of Mario that he's delusional, where all the adventures takes place only on his head (maybe he does too much mushroom?). In this particular scene I tried to show a moment where he's almost conscient and start to notice that princess is just a broom, but still not fully understand what's happening, so he thinks she's just quiet for a reason, and the sad part is that he blames himself.

Well, who wants pizza? :)

I think we have a winner already! 

So what's with the princess/maiden...? Is she a broom?

Haha, the filename <3

how do we compeeehte with this? :DD
awesome work dude