beautiful piece like many of your others, It retains its consistancy.
Best part is central dress. the blending of the colors through dithering worked very well for this piece.
Your hair is very stylized, I can only assume that other people commenting are expecting you to begin an antialliasing process on the sharper edges to retain your style but soften its overall effect.
It helps when they actually mention what they are looking to see you improve apon, and not just state how they find "it strange".
As for the green thread, I agree, it doesnt fit but I know its part of lovely lady locks.... Perhaphs a bit more AA or shadowing on the fabric behind it would remedy that.
Overall I think its fantastic, and I dont think Id have the patience to do THAT much dithering. You must be out of your mind!
Pretty :O
One thing that really stands out is that green thread- It doesn't fit in well at all
Wow this is epic. An excellent job all around with the colors, the shading, everything. A wonderful piece of work that deserves to be much higher on the list of pixels on this site.