Your color count is excessive at best. If you don't believe me, look at what other people can do with 8, about a 20th of your color count of 156.

souly,ive just started the garage tonight so i have a lot of details to do

blick,i have thought about the hood and did take it down to 16 colors but it looked rubbish,and i use paint shop pro 7 by the way

ill see what i can do with the hood but at this stage i feel that some of you are being too critical,thanks for the comments though,keep them coming

i did that last night jalonso to use as an avater,then i read the the biggest size was 64x64 which ruled it out

well,i know about pixel art,i studied it for like 2 years,anyway,i took the car down to 79 colors and lost the gradient on the grill and hood,and in my own opinion it looks far worse,itried putting some shape into the bonnet also,so you see,i am actually doing something here

http://www.prn.ee/ajuvant/reklaam/1970/linc-cont-mark4-77.jp g

that car does not consist of a rectangular box with a prism on top. yours does.

In pixel art, it's more of a discipline thing than a true neccessity, but because the artform originally came from 2- and 4-color systems, it is always best to use as few colors as possible. Also, using 156 colors is clear evidence that you're using tools or something worse. 256 colors was the limit for an entire game back i the day, and you use that many for one sprite? Somehow having this many colors seems like a waste now, doesn't it?

As for your friends, pixel-aethiests have invalid opinions of pixel art anyway, so take their advice with half a shaker of salt. Still, if you can color-reduce while keeping your general look, and that's what makes you happy, go for it, and then revise.

Keep working, and try to get it to 30 or less, I know that's easily possible and won't change any of the style etc.

I actually see NO difference in the 16 as supposed to the 41 colors.
Excpet that there are now mirros.

Maaan that's harsh.

@bifur-no, 16 bits of color is 2^16 or 65536.

I see little to no difference, use the 16 unless you're planning on cursing us to heck in that scenario.

thanks guys,thats just given me an idea

im still working on the angle and depth at the moment

a dumspter i've just made

and the base for the tow truck

they look completely different on my lcd and other people have said different

maybe if you looked a little closer

this is how the towtruck is turning out,its based off a landrover

bit more work on the wheels i think

i can never get round objects looking good

i think ive got the background sorted now