Robotic Bug

[Zeal*]

I don't consider myself very good at pixel art, but I wanted to post this anyways, just tell me what I need to improve on 


Well this is what I consider finished, lol.

[Mathias]

Not bad for beginner stuff, I should know, I'm a beginner myself. At least you're working small.

It's not readable enough; detail gets lost. I see half of an insect sitting on some odd blue orb thing. I see no indication of a robot.

Very shallow depth due to your shading and boring-directly-overhead-lightsource, which I doubt you even thought about. Think about light, it controls EVERYTHING we see. Use light. Use shadow.

Your palette swatches are wrong, where are the greens?

But, your biggest crime here is the incredibly cheap use of mirroring, that's one-year mandatory, pal.

[Zeal*]

Not bad for beginner stuff, I should know, I'm a beginner myself. At least you're working small.

It's not readable enough; detail gets lost. I see half of an insect sitting on some odd blue orb thing. I see no indication of a robot.

Very shallow depth due to your shading and boring-directly-overhead-lightsource, which I doubt you even thought about. Think about light, it controls EVERYTHING we see. Use light. Use shadow.

Your palette swatches are wrong, where are the greens?

But, your biggest crime here is the incredibly cheap use of mirroring, that's one-year mandatory, pal.

Thanks for the info, the reason the green pallet isn't there is because I made the orb thing he sits on last.
I usually never use pallets anyways =p

[Zeal*]

Do you think the shading on this one has gotten better? Maybe someone could show me what it should look like?