Not bad for your first serious bit of pixeling. The outlining is basically solid (other than that stray black pixel on to upper left - we call those "jaggies"), and I can tell what all the ingredients are at a glance (and probably could even without color which is great).
The issues with this piece stem from your color choices, imo. I ran this through the image specs tool (on the top menu bar, under "Features") and was astonished to find there are 29 distinct colors here! That is way too many imo. You don't need a separate palette for the sesame seeds on the bun, for instance - just use lighter shades of the bun's orange-brown. There are lots and lots of colors here that are completely unnecessary - why use different shades of brown for the bun and patty, for instance?
As far as shading goes I'd say that lavishing light and shadow onto the top bun and letting the rest of the piece go basically unshaded was a mistake - you could probably get a better effect by having the light source hit the burger at a diagonal rather than from straight above, so that you would then have reason to shade the burger more cylindrically.
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Not bad for your first serious bit of pixeling. The outlining is basically solid (other than that stray black pixel on to upper left - we call those "jaggies"), and I can tell what all the ingredients are at a glance (and probably could even without color which is great).
The issues with this piece stem from your color choices, imo. I ran this through the image specs tool (on the top menu bar, under "Features") and was astonished to find there are 29 distinct colors here! That is way too many imo. You don't need a separate palette for the sesame seeds on the bun, for instance - just use lighter shades of the bun's orange-brown. There are lots and lots of colors here that are completely unnecessary - why use different shades of brown for the bun and patty, for instance?
As far as shading goes I'd say that lavishing light and shadow onto the top bun and letting the rest of the piece go basically unshaded was a mistake - you could probably get a better effect by having the light source hit the burger at a diagonal rather than from straight above, so that you would then have reason to shade the burger more cylindrically.