@Fruitversity - those look brilliant, love your colours choices by the way, it makes the food stand out and is a very good representation of the real thing.
I've begun to make my own resources for my first game, because I want mine to look unique. I am quite inspired by art in retro video games, especially the amiga era games I grew up with. In any case, this is my first attempt at a bigger piece of pixel art, I wanted to draw a monster I could use, I haven't made the sprite yet, but that should be easy compared to this:

Basically, I want peoples opinions, both on the monster concept, and the art style itself (both good and bad, like, if it sucks I'd rather know and why). I did the shading and highlights using dithering. I've called it a cycloptic sludge, which is going to live in swampy areas and damp caves and I'm inventing an attack for it called poisoned fang which does 100 damage and leaves the player poisoned. I've always thought cyclops creatures make enemies which look generally pretty good. I was also sort of influenced by grimer and muk from pokemon when I drew this, which is possibly why I am drawn to it being a poison type enemy.
Update: I have now done and incuded the matching sprite sheet. I've tested the sprite, it works
:)