Shading would help. When you break it down, the focus is not of the pixel. The focus is on the lines and the shapes. These should be used to help draw focus to the pixel, not be the focus themselves. Shading is gratly helps with this.
I fail to see how this counts as that? Is it the background and my lack of skill in shaping it? The lack of shading? I can live with it whatever it is, but if I'm to improve I think I need some help understanding here.
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Shading would help. When you break it down, the focus is not of the pixel. The focus is on the lines and the shapes. These should be used to help draw focus to the pixel, not be the focus themselves. Shading is gratly helps with this.