Thanks for the suggestions! I kind of liked the faceted bits, 'smooth' isn't really my style. But I appreciate the comments (and the suggestions on the forums as well!)

That's a good portrait with a nice presence. Lovely colors, good shading.

But I think it is still a little unfinished, hehe. Many areas in the face could be refined with precise pixel clusters, and I don't think dithering helps it, at all. It looks more like you went for it for the cool factor than for a real pixelly reason (we all do that at some point anyway ;)

Look carefully how in some places like the forehaed it breaks the volume into unwanted facets instead of smoothing it.

I'd recommend looking at Jaeden's work. Most of it is of the large-palette-with-heavy-systematic-dithering type, which made sense at the time because the colors were close to each other to begin with, and the whole would blend nicely on old CRT monitors. Then in her next-to-latest piece, no more dithering at all. Which looks best?

 Thanks! Yes, it was referenced from a Rembrandt piece, but the character is my own. :)

Interesting painterly style,? The square-ish dithering is a nice touch :)

 This has really cool flow, i'm lovin the hair =p