I know, too late, but it's not about a price or something

so here my submission:

http://opengameart.org/content/alraune-rootling

= not a contestant (still you can fav if you like :D)

Long time ago I was an more or less active member of the 'RPG maker 2k' community, but I havent done any Pixelart for at least a year.

tbh, I think pixel art is more of a problem, not a solution.

\[°_o]/

well, first of all you have to make your pixel art more dynamic, even if its just a monster sprite, you have to design it as if it actually does something, something dangerous for example[tries to grab the player, melting away]

then you have to add details, because the detail per pixels is what pixelart is about, more details is better.

you could also work with different colours for different lightsources, many classic nintendo rpgs had that.

and then of course the appropriate shading :)

edit: and never gradient from white to black in pixel art

edit: and grass aint 0 255 0, so use more grayish colours even surrealistical shifts in spectrum looks good,[brown grass, violet grass, grayish-pink grass > toxic green grass]

I would really love to see the result :)

Misha