First time posting here! I hope you will enjoy my work!
The reference for this one is a picture I personally took(my own photography), I only traced the rough outline and base colors of it, not much else
The process for this one spanned over 3 days, total hours spent on this one: 8-13 hours
This one a tryhard with piskel, stretching its limits lel
Combined with the reference's original colors, nearly all of the gradient colors in here is hand-picked.
3 layers used.
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Welcome to PixelJoint. I do enjoy your work very much. This must be a beautiful photo. Maybe you could share a link to it, to show us your reference? This is very nice that you included intormation about your process. Based on that I can give you a couple of tips.
First of all, while it looks beautiful zoomed out, in closer examination this has very little to do with pixel art. At least in it's more traditional understanding, which we try to focus on here. It is very jaggy, has no AA and it should have a lot. There are pixel art techniques/styles which do not use AA deliberately, but it does not seem like a justifiable choice here. You also have some random singular pixels in some places. Few lines you use on the bottom are not finished, also jaggy and they even overlap the clusters they supposed to be outlines for. On top, around the second from the left large dark spot I can see your freehand doodle with 2px wide pen. In pixel art all thsoe things should be cleaned up, and every pixel placement should be controlled and intentional, not random or frivolous at all.
The second thing is palette control which is debatable in modern pixel art, but we still suggest to at least have some understanding of it. Here you can check how your image looks in that regard
http://yanrishatum.ru/pj/?input=https%3A%2F%2Fpixeljoint.com%2Fpixelart%2F150514.htm
I trully admire your dedication to hand-pick 343 colours, but all that time consuming effort was quite pointless, and steered you further away from making "pixel art", not just a digital image made in pixel art software. The pixel art medium was formed out of data limitations, and beside small resolutions it required small palettes, and lot of colour recycling. It is not necessary in modern times, but following this historical "rules" and learning to control your palette, can definately make you more sensitive to pixel art aesthetics, and make your art have more "pixel art feel". Your image is full of unnecessary similar colours that can be unified without noticeable quality loss. When you choose a different colour each time you start a new cluster, without checking if you cannot reuse something you already have used, you are not doing pixel art (in traditional sense).
I do not wan't to send you away with nothing, so let's have a deal. If you put some effort in cleaning this image (maybe you will read some pixel art tutorials - we have some on PJ) and reupload it I will accept it as a learning piece. And I will definately await for each of your next level pixel art pieces.
Very glad you joined us. Have fun with pixels!