@Geonjaha, guskooyman Thanks for the comments, I really appreciate all feedback!. I personally like trying to keep my pixel art pretty clean. I went through a dithering phase, thinking that less colours + dithering was best. Sometimes, adding one or two more colours fits what you are trying to convey better than "adding" a new colour through dithering. Not that I have anything against it, I just didn't feel it fit well in this particular piece. May do an edit and see what it looks like.

I like the text better in the second one, but I actually think it looks better with the dithering. I would have just used less colors. Nice though!

Nice, but I don't think you should have abandoned dithering completely for the second one - I think it would have improved it further.

Very well details and improvement when it comes to the second one, I can see that in some sort of 2D futuristic shooter due to it's Tech, nice job overall. :D

nice improvement. to me pixel art looks great with hue changing, unique palletes and ofcourse good line art/ AA