Study from Gabriel Akre's "The Garden." Gave this as an exercise in a digital illustration course and sketched away on it myself.

Carl Spitzweg and Hieronymous Bosch were two artists who could undoubtedly drop a killer joke in conversation. The wit emerges into their paintings like it can't be bridled.

Edward Hopper quietly agrees.

Here's what it looks like when a dope like me tries to mix pixel art and mosaics beyond the conceptual level.

Someone who really knows both could do amazing stuff.

In addition to retro appeal and efficiency, pixel art has an aesthetic quality that is timeless —not unlike mosaics.

The reason is open to interpretation, but the mosaic simplification and abstraction can be found across cultures and time.