Why not just pixel with those dimensions and trace your previous work in a new resolution then? To be quite frank "pixel" art that combines pixels with different ratios looks terrible.
This was a commission for somebody that wanted the character blinking and smirking. Leaving the face at the same resolution would mean that the blink is just a one frame thing with poor motion, and the smirk would be just three pixels shifting. I feel this was the better solution, and the commissioner agreed, and is using the face as their avatar on a different site.
Why use a different pixel ratio and then break it? Doesn't make any sense and doesn't look good.
What an utterly stupid and offensive comment pectaquad... -_-
I like the style! Pixelated body and a more detailed face, it's genuis!
I suppose I could, but this is what the commissioner wanted, and that's what they paid for. I did intend to go back and make it so it has alternate version in the character's other outfits, so I guess I might as well try that.