The colour use and contrast is excellent in this piece. I like the details of the bark, cacti and rock. I don't feel the lines of the composition entirely. It could use a dark foreground layer and some AA on some edges, but overall the piece is impressive. It has my vote.

thank you for the kind words

hotdamn!

5/5 I want to play it.

Well I found one excess colour and killed it, added more background fluff, fixed up multiple flaws. Lowered the brightness of the crystals and glyphs. 

Thanks again for the feedback Cels, but now its time to slumber.

Well that settles that question

Thanks for the critique, Its late in my timezone so I just had to post it. 

That edit is the right idea I was strugling a bit with the readability. You know when you stare at something for too long and just don't know anymore and need another pair of eyes. 

And about the colour thing I use photoshop so sometimes things go a bit derp when I accidentally have the pencil on opacity -_-, And I honestly dont know a good way to fix it after the fact.

Now I have a dillema; get sleep or make it better...

Really cool, I really like the shading and picked colours.

That is one cool looking pixel piece!

 WOW

 Pretty amazing job man, 5/5

 Thank you all for the kind words.

 Dat lighting.

 Yea you're right the overall lighting is a bit funky, but i think its too far along to go back and correct. I did however fix up the shadow part of the character which indeed was a weird flat thing. Thanks for the feedback.

Also @ Freshsheet I also changed the highlights in the back. 

 I really like the shapes and the patterns. Faved.