Uhm, no, I didn't. This picture is part of an RPG Maker Game, it would be bad if I would use transparation or soft brushes, because the programm would have quality-problems with t oo many colors (256 colors in this case). So i just use a one pixel Brush without anything special to have a good and accurate result. It needs a lot of time and work, but I think it was worth it.

(and of course all of these things are against the rules of this page, or not ?)

That's a lot of colors. Did you use gradients or soft brushes or filters or semi-transp?

Overall pretty neat. The environment colours could use some work though.

- Cute! but the saturation is way too high in some areas! and the frame rate change with the puppy is a bit odd. -