awesome!

I just google'd it - saw the similarities. lol.

This should have been the cover to the North American version of Ghost Lion for the NES!

Such a unique style you have.  Love all your stuff.

Ooo niiice!!

You make very good use of color I think.

- Gratz on 5th top pixel! -

your stuff is just so dazzling and amazing! ♥

I can learn something from the cluster usage here.  Love the girls face and hair.

the square background frames the composition perfectly.  This piece is so beautifully pixeled!  I'd never be able to make a magenta background look so amazing.  I love your style

Thanks, I'll try experimenting next time.

Nice piece. I like the magenta background, but I think you should try making it a different shape, like a circle.

and you should be proud, it has a sense of movement that is really amusing!

Beautifull.

The lion especially looks awesome. The girl looks a bit off.

Thanks. I'm always open to critic since i want to improve.

Nice overall!

Hope you don't take offense to criticisim, but... Hands seem a bit iffy the way they are rendered, it doesn't seem to match the face which could be perhaps because of the dark outline. I think her fingers are also a tad small on (her) left hand.

Regardless, super cool stuff. 

YOOOO I love absolutely everything about this!!

Beatifule work!!

I'm starting to love your colors, they're so soft... 

Beautiful! Kinda poetic and mysterious, really love this :)

very very lovely

I should have said first that it was not that deep and I realized interpretation might be diffficult since it was from personal experience

Good guesses though.

Ok, upfront I'm bad at these established artist symbols that everybody but me knows, so if a white lion has some established symbolic meaning, I'm unaware of it. Just going with what I think.

Either the lion represents a problem, hurdle or fear and the girl is overcomming it easier than thought (lion stays calm, girl has eyes closed). In that case I read the girl as starting to find her own identity (pullover/skirt thing -> trying things out, not fully detailled -> not fully developed character/grown up) after overcomming what was prior in the way.

Or the lion represents inner strength, in which case I would say the girls pullover/skirt and detail/undetail has to do with showing ones best side while hiding the not so good part. The closed eyes could mean something along the lines of self-unawareness (not reallising the inner strength/lion) or blindly following the expectations of others.

Or I'm totally wrong and the image represents that you become independant, stepping over and away from the safety (lion = parents or similiar) into the unknown (closed eyes). The walk would be confident, the details at top clear expetations and the undefined legs uncertainy. The pullover/skirt thing would in this case represent joy/what you want and fear/what you not want or openess and closeness for and against what is to or could come.

Of course it could be any mix or entirely different altogether... So, how wrong am I? Is it time for me to feel ashamed ?

I used this as a reference, then when I got to the hind legs. I tought that it might not translate well so I searched for another reference where the hind legs were not laying flat (and guesstimates) - might explain why the front may not appear to blend with the whole body.

I love when someone posts highly stylized pieces like this. You really made great use of clusters in most places.

I agree that the lion's hump is much different than it would be in reality. It looks like you just pasted two different positions and joined them.

Go ahead.

Is it ok to guess? I've no concrete idea but some vague interpretations.

She is the Phantom Pharter?

I knew it, someone would ask for the meaning . All I can say is it is not sexual but related to the days I was in high school.

Closed eyes, lifting pullover up while pushing skirt down, no/invisible pelvis, awake and content lion...........

Does this picture has a deeper meaning?

Anyway, I really like it. The head and upper part of the girl and the head and mane of the lion work well together.

girls face is striking and the lion looks awesome. really nice!

Most of the work really went to the lion. It was difficult, but I'm satisfied with the results.

Great Piece!

The lion´s hair gets all my attention, really awesome work.

Thanks Ego will update together with the new edits and cleanup

Thanks felch, I will update later since I also found two stray pixels.

You're totally right about the maroon background - you ought to upload that one as the main image, it works perfectly and makes the inside of the back of the skirt/rear leg/lack of thighs all work better in context, as well as perfecting the AA'd outer curves on the lion. Regardless though this is a really good-looking piece. I'm not looking really close at specific clusters, but it all flows well and looks both crisp and smooth. Great job.

Really nice (again! :) ) The rump of the lion could be a little larger or perhaps the position it's lying in could be emphasised somehow.