Harrisonk, zoom it few times and you'll see why there are so many colors used - you can clearly see the lines, so imagine how many pixels there would be if it would be dithered :) (and the goal was - smoothness)
i like it! the only thing is the background, it looks good like that but it is a waste of colors... too many i mean.
"Too smooth of a color transition for a pixel art"? Well, that's something new :) Every pixel here was placed by a hand... and transitions? There are few options - dithering is just one of them and i really didn't want to use it here :) It's so small, that i wanted it to be as smooth and clear as possible - something that you might expect with vector graphic and automatic gradients, right? :)
This is cool. The sky might have too smooth of a color transition for pixel art, but I do like the color choices.
Nice