please post your reference... and yes, something is fishy (pun intended) about the large colour count but it does seem to utilize traditional pixel methods... just a large waste of colours IMO.

I'm not sure if it's just me, but that plant in the bottom left corner looks NPA. There are too many colors on here that are too similar. You can get rid of a lot of colors while still making this piece look the same. The shading doesn't seem to match where the light source is coming from as well.

I think a ref picture is needed

254 colors. everything its over shaded that it rather looks blurry instead of smooth. and considering ariel's light source is inexistant and the whoile background has a top left lightsource.

also, i somehow fear this was traced, as the lineart in ariel's face and torso is quite good, but the clam for example its a whole mess, same as the hair and basically everything else in the picture.

I think this would be fantastic if the hair (and other things) was shaded to refect the light source at the top left rather than in the center.

I like the shading of the blue background, it would just be nicer if the light source matched on everything.

I saw it without zooming in.

Its hardly noticeable unless you zoom in though.

There's a stray pixel in the clam, but otherwise this is nice.