I'm officially the worst person ever. Couldn't even get my Secret Santa piece near complete. 

@Ai - Looks quite fluid. I'm curious as to what you plan on using 3D for. if you are going to try it for games art I recommend not using anything like subsurf etc... as it adds a tonne of polygons The same goes for turbosmooth in 3DS max, so on and so forth.

@Mathias - that is awesome.

So, tomorrow (aka later today) I get a day of work. I miss my 4 hour shifts a night. These 10 hour days I've been doing this month have been rather taxing. Retail sucks to work in around December. That said I'll probably be spending this Christmas doing pixel art to try and finish this secret santa gift which is currently a disgrace.

Wow, been a while since I posted here. I feel kind of bad.

Anyway, when it comes to style I have to agree with helm that style is a bit of a biased concept and hard to really 'categorise'. That being said I like the idea of sharing style information with others because it gives inspiring pixel artists the chance to learn different ways of approaching things. I know I certainly learnt a lot from imitating ilkke's Cat of Gold (even though I was too noob to quite capture it). There are also a bunch of things inspiring artists simply don't even consider.

Joe for example who does mostly C64 demoscene work has a habit of putting overlaying patterns on his work:
http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/68407.htm
It's something that I personally find pretty neat and not something I had ever considered doing.

Some times you just run into a style when trying to be creative:
http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/67986.htm#
This 'style' was design by combining African colours with a bit of a unique dithering approach. (and I was still pretty noob then)

So for me personally while defining style in it's abstract/realism/symbolism triangle is brilliant - I also feel that dither styles and colour styles are a neat thing to discuss. Colour decisions of course are important all forms of art but I find in  pixelart it holds a greater impact due to the great appeal of restricted colour pallets. It's been mentioned that a lot of artist like the desaturated pallets such as the C64 pallet as it's more flexible in the sense of connecting colours together. I for one enjoy an overly saturated pallet for how it makes images 'pop':
http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp16/TheUnknownArtistJak/16colourpallet_zps11a8f51a.png

Then there are dither styles (something I've been toying a lot with lately rather than actually getting anything produced). There is the pretty typical checkerboard dither but then there are a whole tonne of other dither styles such as the gradient line dither, the line dither similar to my previous 'style piece I made' dither, bubble dithering etc... Often these different styles can be used for emphasising texture (line dithering on metal etc.. but they can be used just to create something unique.

On top of those couple things there are different methods to handling the borders of objects within a piece. There is outside anti-aliasing where you AA towards a surrounding colour or to a neautral middle colour. There is the broken AA where you dither AA a given colour into the outside colour (often creates a furry vibe though). There is sell-out which is shifting the outside pixels to a darker colour or good old fashion outlining; outlining itself though can be single black outlines, to bold heavy outlines to light/shade affected outlines that change in relation to the light source.

Of course none of these is a defined style but a instead different approaches that can lead to a style when combined. So yeah, as helm stated, it can't really be categorised.

I want to post more but I'm terrible at wording stuff today and honestly I aso just want to go play a tonne of my new steam games.

Nice to meet yah Gregor. Anyway thought I'd give you some opinions (I say opinions because I'm a noob myself)
Anyway first thing I notice about this is that your tiles have a larger saturation than your knight. Due to this the tiles pop a lot more than your character, causing the eye to fly straight past the knight.
Your new cave walls definitely look better however the rocks bland in with the roof part of the walls, add some more blue to the tops and slight yellow tint the rocks, aka move them slightly in opposite directions of the hue wheel thing.
As for your grass you need to try and break away from the grid, aka not perfectly square as you have it. See how your cave base turns, try something similar to that with your grass.
As for the original walls, I kind of see upside down picket fences. Unfortunately that distracts me from giving any real C&C on that.

ps see how you have that purple colour ramp, 3rd wall map, trying doing something along those lines for the knights armour to make him more notice-able.

Yeah true, that's probably why I fail at it. I'm thinking after this I will whip out the old art book that was lost in storage until I moved and practice some anatomy pixelling.

Anyway an update, please as before all C+C is welcome. Anyway I best get back to it as I am on a time limit.



ps do you think the (our) right arm is a good length? Looks about right to me for the upper part but I may be wrong.


EDIT:

I need to fix the forearm so it thins down to add the wrist and hand (not looking forward to doing the hands) and I think the shading of the (our) right boob is off. It needs to be less light me thinks.

Making progress but slowly. I need to pick up the pace!

I tried sketching I just so overly suck at female proportions, yeah honestly never drawn a female until now. I generally do monsters and stuff as I've always failed at human anatomy.
That is really the only ref I have except what I can remember in my head. This is essentially my rough part, I haven't gone for perfect lines yet.
How do you feel the face is off? Just so I have a better idea of what you mean, etc... chin...