Thanks for clarification on that. Sorry if I came over as a bit offensive, I did not mean to suggest that you intentionally left out the reference. Nice piece.

No, of course I'm not Jansson. Sorry, it's big oversight from myself, I've started learning how to paint with photoshop some time ago, using his great tutorials and drawing using some of his work as reference. My pixel piece was done using a knight I've quickly drawn on a corner of one of my skecth book as ref, seems that I've drawn it using Jansson works as ref. That's certainly why I've forgotten where it came from, I've corrected my mistake.

Is your real name Niklas Jansson?
I'm not accusing you of anything here, I'm just asking to be sure. If you are Niklas Jansson then everything is fine. If not, I have reason to believe that you forgot to post a reference:
http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/miscgame/batch3.jpg
as found on http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/main.php?id=dragon
(I am referring to the golem in the second row from the bottom on that image. Yours looks pretty much exactly like that golem, just mirrored.)

Looks nice, cool idea, nice bg and shapes are still recognizeable despite the palette restrictions and small size...

royal guard rock star!

Lovely pose; this one looks great!

really good stuff!  the shading on the skull pile is aces!

You just get better and better with each pixelart <3