Too good.

Too good to be true.
I clicked this picture, thinking of art and it' many ways of being made. "Who made this? How was it made?"

When I got to this page, I immeadiatly went for a full view when I saw little pixels on Sonic's spikes.
No way.
It was all pixel. How'd he do that?
hehe, it's all talent. I was so surprised that someone would go this far. It was just amazing. I tried to think of how *Neoriceisgood began on this. I actually tried to put together the first sketches of this in my head. But and amateur like me, yeah right. This art has tons of effort, and it uses so many characters! Only one thing was wrong, though.

If it just had Marth, it would be alot more smexier.

I kid, I kid! Either way, this picture is brilliant. Pixels may be small, but they talk big, especially when being used by a brilliant artist.

First off I applaud you for your work. I have never seen such pixel art of such detail and candor ever in my time of dA. You have my utmost praise.

But then again, I'm writing a critique, so onwards we go:

1. Light source: In the painting itself (as in content) we can see 4 sources of light, Mario's fireball, Charizards mouth/tail and DK if you consider that a light source. the left half of the painting starting with charizard's head down and left have perfect shading, but it seems to lighten up if not merge with a new light source a bit towards the right side of the painting. On the right side, I do not know if have intended it to be, appears to have 2 courses of light. Why? because Bowser's nose/snout has 2 light sources upon it. The one from DK's drums and apparently another one off screen. This is perfectly fine if you had intended for a light-source to be off screen. But then that makes Peach's shading off. In you look to her left arm (in your perspective) It has a shadow running along the entirety of her back arm. If there was a light source to the right of the painting, the shadow shouldn't be there.

Moving on towards the bottom righthand side of the painting we focus on Jigglypuff, fox's tail and Pikachu's head. Fox's tail does not seem to have much shading applied to it, so a bit more darker colors is recommended by me. Jigglypuff although has a few flaws. If you had wanted light sources coming from both sides Jigglypuff would have been lit from both sides, but in the painting it is only lit from the left, not the right.

Now focusing on DK and the wall behind him, I believe that if he's giving off enough glow to cast light upon the characters around him he should also light up the wall behind him. My suggestion is to add a bit more of a blue aura to the wall behind him. OR even better yet apply a more intense blue overlay on the whole painting if you intend to have DK's aura/smash to be very visible and prominent.

Finally: Charizard. He is directly over/near DK, therefore following the laws of physics he should be equally lit by DK's light if not more than the other characters. But in the painting he is hardly lit at all. My recommendation is to draw on a stronger blue shade onto Charizard's belly and underside. Also don't forget that claws reflect light too.

Whew that was long winded. I hope it helped. And I hope you don't take too much offense.

Cheers and good luck,

DT