Hey there! I like this piece quite a bit, but there's something going on here that bothers me that I see in a lot of pixel portraiture - the skin is dithered, but the hair is not. Dithering imparts a sort of rough texture which on skin ends up looking like peach fuzz.
But that's minor. I love the level of detail on the hair and the definition on the lips here.
This is great, but for the gallery do you have a version without the background gradient? Thank you!