Amazing work on the clouds, only gripe I have with it that it feels so different from the rest of the artwork which is a lot crisper. Great work overall.

I see what I did wrong, and I think I can fix the banding issue. (The reason why it isn't as obvious on her dress is because of the cheap double black outline I gave her hair that overlapped the banding pixels). I've tried to preserve the strong lines as present in the animation itself, but I supposed it doesn't look very nicely in small pixelart like this. I'll see if I can make some adjustments this weekend.

The edit looks great, thanks. It's unfortunately breaking the Fibonacci challenge rules.

Q1: now has three colors instead of the allowed two.

Q3: now had eight colors instead of the allowed five.

Maybe next time I could plan ahead more and move the portrait a bit more to the right. The tip of the hat would be lost, but would allow for more color room in the color critical face area.

Perhaps I should give up on dithering, in retrospect seems to do more harm than good.

I'm confident the line art and anatomy was decent. (There was a WIP which showed the basic line sketch in the challenge thread). For anatomy and proportions PoseManiacs was great reference. When I actually started on the details I couldn't find a style I was comfortable with - It's actually a lot harder than I initially thought compared to analog art. I don't consider it a very successful result but it was however a valuable exercise. I might revisit it with more color after I garnered some additional experience.

Basically this is a pun on Mass Effect, a roleplaying game that has been in the news a couple of times for allowing you to develop romances and do the (cleverly censored) naughty things with humans and aliens alike. When you talk to people you can select the different conversation options from the ring in the bottom of the screen. Replies on the top side of the ring are usually good natured ("Paragorn"), replies on the bottom are evil ("Renegade").

If you've never played the game I suggest you give it a try. Mass Effect 1 has a discount version available for PC and XBOX360, Mass Effect 2 has been recently released.