Go back to the awesome glory days of Real-Time Strategy games. Crush Your Enemies has everything you love of the genre: Planning, choosing different types of units, managing resources, taking enemy territory and outwitting your opponent with the ingenious formations of your men.
The process of making a character portrait - first the reference (writer Alan Moore), than the concept art (by Krzymsky), than the final pixelart version (by Artur Perski).