to tie the shapes together is for them to use a common shade to make the shapes appear as one, it's commonly used with more impressionistic stuff than this, but it's always nice to know :)
Thank you! I'm not sure what that means (tieing the shapes and such) but I'm very noobish in the pixel art scene.
interesting style! you have some neutral colors lying around the piece, and i believe you could've used them to tie the shapes better, and i have some qualms on the way you shaded the ears, but the rest is pretty good!
Hmmm okay. Yeah I get what you mean then! I almost never do that.... should try it out!