This is my fourth pixel for a challenge (The April Fool Gallery). I decided to use aspects of exocet's pixels.
The rabbit of course, and the shading techniques. It might not look all too exocet-ish, but maybe this and this pixel can bring you on a different opinion. (If you zoom in you see dots, squares and circles for the shading). I also tried to look at what styles he used besides that. I think the result looks good, but could certainly have been better too fool people...
your circle dithering is too orderly imo, part of what keeps it from being exocet-ish. He also likes to put alot of hearts and shapes into the dither patterns at times.
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