My first serious try at a pixel piece
this is the visitor center at Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle
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in reply to @beingquiet's post:
Wow, knocked this out of the park. Really effective in conveying both the lighting of the scene and the moiré one inevitably gets with those sorts of metal mesh tables & chairs.
My first instinct was to superimpose a protagonist & interface from a LucasArts adventure game, mostly just to convey how confidently this piece succeeded, but I decided to just say that instead of messing with the piece. 
Hard agree on the LucasArts take — this is giving Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, although I will say it's the art from the game in your memory, rather than the art in the game as it is.
It would have to be one of the games that used a dynamic lighting model (such that the protagonist's avatar has a variable color/luminance filter that maps to their location on screen), to best capitalize on those lovely pools of sunlight.
Ty so much!! ;;
I wouldn't have minded tbh it kind of gave me something like a visual novel vibe by the end
this is breathtaking! gorgeous use of color and value. if i unfocus my eyes i would assume this was actually a photo. you nailed it!
i really love it, i want to be there (i guess since it's a real place, technically i could go be there)
I really thought this was a photo or maybe an edited photo with some weird filters on it at first until I read the comment you put on it and my jaw DROPPED and then I had to take a closer look. Insane work.
your first serious attempt at pixel art was this high in resolution? thank you that’s terrifying
this is literally stunning. it's one of those pieces that reminds me how bad I want to learn to draw. pixelart like this is so. aaah. can I ask, what do you think helped you most in learning to draw, like, environments?
Find a picture you really love and recreate it and if you hate what comes out of that process then be kind to yourself as a student but figure out what you don't like about it or why it doesn't work to you and use it to make the next thing better and if you do like it enjoy that and try to top it
Better yet take a picture of somewhere or something or someone you love and make art of it/them
I was at this particular landscape so I got to choose exactly what was in the photo I made. That helped. make what you like to see. Make what you've experienced. It's your vision.
oh, gosh, thank you! I really appreciate such a thoughtful reply!
A lot of people believed in me when I didn't and so I'm passing it forward to you!