Fine. You're first mission: Capture the realism of a fruit with given light source: ie, pixel or veggie or fruit, and make it as best as your mind can possibly make through pixel art, with light shining on it at one point. Restriction: size can only be within 100x100 pixels. You can only use 16 colors max( I'm giving you some slack here)...

Hint, though the idea may seem easy at first, you may run into conventional problems. Best tip I can give you is focus on volumes, and choose your colors wisely...

I've got a pretty good outline of a banana, if I do say so myself, and it's within that limit.
It's only an outline though, so obviously it's a WIP.

My reference is http://blog.baliwww.com/images/fruit_banana.jpg.

   Hello JSwitch, and welcome to pixelation. First challenge: read the FAQs, and know that this thread is for pixel art, which this thread currently lacks(and will most likely be moved elsewhere by a mod).

   If it's a challenge you seek, pixeljoint.com has weekly challenges for pixel artists, just like yourself. If you'd rather stay here, I'd suggest taking your pick of any in the challenge and activities thread....otherwise, pixel anything you want and post it here, and we'll critique it...hard....cuz' we're hardcore.

I'd like to let you know that I've already looked in the FAQs and Challenge sections, but they seem to be too advanced for me.
I'm trying to have some sort of way to get the hang of pixelling first by having people tell me to do a few things to get me started/on the right track.