@Theoden Thanks. Really loved Toby Dixon's Niddhog 2 sprites.

Very cool style. The clusters reminds me of Toby Dixon's works. 

@Cyangmou Thanks so much for the advice! Now I'm thinking adding dark volumetric shadows coming from the asteroids and the main character and really upping the intensity on the rim light would have solved the supernova problem and  then that's an entirely new composition... I'm going to have to try it out later.

Really nice floating easyness in the piece, going great in hand with the subject of gravity free space.
I love the artistic approach, but I also think the face of the character is pushed too far in a corner and the supernove in the bg just detracting from everything as the stark white is too strong or the shadows too weak for the intensity.
Anyways, the good overweighs the bad in this piece. It's definitely a cool direction.

@CELS Oh good! I generally think having standards is good for an art community. I'm getting a little sloppy only posting my pixel art on twitter these days. Looking at it again I could certainly do more to make the edges nicer curves. I might try an antialiasing pass when I have a free hour or two. I'm kicking myself because I should have waited a day or two to assess it before submitting instead of posting it after I'd just completed it. 

I wasn't implying that it should be taken down, just having a healthy discussion (I hope!). Great pun, I definitely missed the overexposed part! 

@CELS No I don't think that's elitist. If you think it's veered a bit too far into oekaki territory then I might take it down. PJ has it's own rules for what counts as pixel art and I do think they should be rigorously applied. I might cut it down to the head where all the detail is which is pretty regorously edited if you think that would work? Though I did spend quite a lot of time manually giving a lot of blob edges nice even curves :)

The title is supposed to be a three way pun. She's burned out (exhausted). But also the sun's going nova in the background and so everything is in a kind of wibbly heat haze. But also the overexposed highlights are 'burned out' where the top level of white shows instead as slightly darker cyan. 

@Rewind Thanks! Kind of oil painty was something I was going for, so I'm glad it reads like that!

Firstly, let me say I really love this. And the title is a wonderful, ambiguous match for the subject. Secondly, I would say (and if this sounds elitist and condescending, please refer to my first point ) that I consider this right on the border between pixel art and what people used to call oekaki. It's not that often I see people using the painting principle of making the focal points detailed and leaving other parts rough. In PA, when you leave parts less detailed, it is sometimes considered "unfinished". But I find this very interesting and well executed.

Is there any connection between the title and the style you've used? 

Really like this, for a start a very emotive piece and the almost oil painting style works really well.