My own colours and everything .

I'm trying to be influenced by Fool's work (probably my favourite pixel artist) because I want to design games and his art is really fun to look at and, as far as I understand, it reads well which is a big bonus with game art. So I'm asking for critique that directs me towards his way of doing things, if you think my reasons are correct for wanting to emulate his style.

Here's a piece that I like a lot: http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/28342.htm

I think I'm getting better (a least a tinie weenie bit). This was the result of a doodle.

P.S. I've got my hands on 'Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain', it's pretty cool.

Hi, I put up this post in the OT-Creativity thread and interrupted a discussion about someone's artwork by mistake because I didn't read the thread but I didn't disturb it thankfully.
Anyway, I wanted to start a new thread with it because feedback would be cool.
The content is music composition and programming.

I've made some midis with "Midi Maker", thought I would post on here.
http://files-upload.com/files/444291/Midis.rar
Most of them aren't complete tunes.

Oh and here is a compilation of two games I've programmed with Visual Basic;
Minesweeper and Tetris. The graphics are poor, sorry!
http://files-upload.com/files/444832/Games.rar

Here are links to each midi for those without an unzipper:

Tune001	Tune002	Tune003	Tune004
Tune005	Tune006	Tune007	Tune008
Tune009	Tune010	Tune011	Tune012
	Tune013	Tune014

-To play, click on the search bar so that the url is highlighted and press enter to be redirected to the midi.

Hello, I've made a character portrait for a game and I'm in need of some pixelling tips. Please comment, I really value the help here.

Portrait:
       Original:                  Latest:


Sprite:
 Original:    Latest:


P.S. I need an idea for a generic background to go with any portrait, like a pattern or something that doesn't distract from the character.