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well... i listened to you, now it has only 20 colors and it still works :) what do you think?
Another thing I would add is that most of the time painting and digital painting is about creating the illusion of something. It may be a bit abstract as a concept but let's give a try : If you take for instance color theory you will notice that there a lot of technique to make colors vibrant or tricking the brain with how colors are actually perceived. One intersting point here is that colors are in fact perceived relatively to each other in a local region that mean that the experience of colors you get doesn't come from the actual color, but from the surrounding ones ! Understanding that is absolutely fundamental. it's really really important and will open to you the doors of a lot of possibles advanced rendering.
That said, it is another reason why you don't need that much colors, because you can reuse them where that would normally not fit, indeed because you have the right balanced palette you can then trick your eyes and a give --depending on what you want/do-- some vibrant/textured/organic/realistic touch to your pixelart, even with a really limited color set (Actually even in traditionnal painting, using limited pigments is common for this very reason).
My advice would be to explore the galery of experienced and popular artists around and look on how what I've said about color theory is put in practice.
Funny enough, pixelart enhanced a lot my technique of drawing and painting in general. Pixelart really take benefit from traditionnal art and may be a good way to explore advanced techniques from more common medium
so lessssss gooooo
Cheers :)
Yes, I agree. I've been making pixel art for a long time but this piece marked my return to it after a long absense, so I made mistakes like you mentioned. Thanks a lot for the constructive criticism! I will definitively have it into account for my next pieces, I want to get better at my craft, so if you want to give me more feedback on my other works posted here, feel welcome to do so n.n
Hello :)
Well in my humble opinion, you usually use dithering when you lake of colors to create a feeling of blending or adding texture to your image. But here you have ~ 50 colors on a tiny image! And all of these colors look flat. With that much colors, you could apply AA and make nice gradient and/or blending, and if you really want "flat rendering" you dont need dithering. But maybe I'm mistaken and all of this is intentional, but it doesn't work for me.
Yet the drawing is really really cool.
Lol that's what the girl in the reference was doing, I swear!
I'm curious... why do you think dithering isn't justified? What does the illustration need to justify dithering in your opinion?
look's like someone is enjoying the moment 
Joke aside, not only 50 colors is way too much, but the dithering isn't justified here ihmo. Nice drawing anyway ^^
much much better !! :D