Hey there :) just sent you a PM in the gallery.
Unless its absolutely needed try not to submit pre scaled pixelart.
The -+ under all art is a zoom feature in the gallery and in the forum just clicking any image zooms it.
This is especially true in the full pixel of your avatar Jesus (?)...that's waaaaaaay to scaled, k.
I'll be honest that this piece was good enough to add but I mistakenly thought you were missing pixels in the crown's broken bits . Because they were scaled and we dont want you having bad habits I didn't get bent out of shape over my error.

Its not a rule.
If you or anyone makes a design choice and we know (usually in the description)then we can't judge that.
Its just that pixelartists like to see 1X and then zoom in if needed to view, review, study and inspect.
Anyhoo, its added to the gallery now :)

I think that the square slime is a cool design choice because I always see little round slime creatures. Your forms are strong and readable so it conveys well what you're trying to to get across. It lacks depth because even though we can see 3 sides of the slime, they're all the same color. You should pick a point where your light source would be coming from and color the sides different shades.

I also think dithering is so difficult and I have no idea how to do it and no room to criticize anyone else who does it. I just don't really know what it's purpose is on the slime. It seems like highlights on a slime would be round and really smooth looking while this gives it sort of a rough texture.

I made a few edits to your first slime to give you an idea of what I mean. In this version the slime is also slightly translucent so I tried to show all of the sides not currently pictured. Again, I'm no expert and I'm sure you can improve on it but maybe it will give you some ideas.

Dithering is entirely unnecessary at this low of a resolution.

God damn it, technos.

Anyways, RedRider, aside from the issues of depth, I also think you would do a lot better with an outline color other than black; for something semi-transparent it doesn't make much sense to have such a dark edge.

I made a quick edit yesterday evening, I was kind of drunk and tired but yea, just poiting out a few things.



Mostly about depth and hilights, kind of what Meapers did but more translucent. Hope it helps !

Also another thing that I noticed is that on the two red smiles is that the highlights are barely noticeable.