Honestly I was expecting to see a LOT more yin-yang imagery in the submissions, I'm very pleasantly surprised at the creative and diverse takes on the theme from everyone! Thanks for putting this thing together. :)
Lovely work! Isometric is definitely a bold choice given the 1-bit limitation, I imagine that was quite challenging to pull off but I think you did a great job.
I like your piece a lot! The mountains look fantastic given the technical restrictions, and I love the idea of using a reflection as a symbol for balance.
I enjoy tarot a lot, and the idea of a tiny pixel tarot card sounded really appealing to me! So I picked Temperance to match the theme of Balance (Temperance shows balance through the imagery of the cups - the water isn't flowing just from one cup to the other, but equally between them. It's symbolism for equivalent exchange, that for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction) and tried a few thumbnails to see what would look effective at that scale. The best thumbnail when scaled down, was focused primarily on the cups.
When it came to the actual pixel art itself, I tried to save as many tile slots as possible by reusing tiles where possible. Once I'd finished my focal point and border though, I'd only used about 90 of the tile slots, so I then focused on a background, and then added some additional details all around (some unique tiles for shading on the cups, making sure there's a legible border between the background and the cups, the Tarot suits in the corners of the borders). In the end I was still pretty far under the tile limit (I may have been a little over the top with saving them...) but I'm really happy with the result visually. It feels authentic for GB styled art which was ultimately my goal!
