I like the idea and the size of the piece but there seem to be some areas where the lineart need some cleaning up; for example each of their pants legs have some extra black outline pixels. Also, with the outlines around each chair meeting up exactly with the lines of the subjects it gives an ugly effect called banding. You also have banding on the arms and hands. There are articles in the forum to help you with that, and with AA, which isn't always necessary, depending on the style you are going for. But it seems that even with the tweaks you've made it still has 255, which makes me wonder why wouldn't you AA if you are going to have such an inflated number of colors already. Many of them seem to be from the shading in the clothing, and are so similar in color that when you look at the picture at its normal size it looks like it should only take 3 or 4 different shades, where in fact you are probably using 10-15 different colors for each seperate piece of clothing.
tl;dr: Clean up your lines; banding around the outlines and arms; refine your colors - you don't need nearly as many as you have; maybe try AA
Never heard of constructive criticism, have you? XDD I think I messed with the crown layer, that would explain the huge amout of colors. I'll fix that.
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Okey doke, sorry about that. Here goes again. :P
I like the idea and the size of the piece but there seem to be some areas where the lineart need some cleaning up; for example each of their pants legs have some extra black outline pixels. Also, with the outlines around each chair meeting up exactly with the lines of the subjects it gives an ugly effect called banding. You also have banding on the arms and hands. There are articles in the forum to help you with that, and with AA, which isn't always necessary, depending on the style you are going for. But it seems that even with the tweaks you've made it still has 255, which makes me wonder why wouldn't you AA if you are going to have such an inflated number of colors already. Many of them seem to be from the shading in the clothing, and are so similar in color that when you look at the picture at its normal size it looks like it should only take 3 or 4 different shades, where in fact you are probably using 10-15 different colors for each seperate piece of clothing.
tl;dr: Clean up your lines; banding around the outlines and arms; refine your colors - you don't need nearly as many as you have; maybe try AA