he means: did the clusterfuck of uneeded colors happen when you were making the original or did they shimmy their way into the sprite when the gif was created

This was traced

not doing this

I moved the original scaled-down image to the top layer and used "value" blending mode

or this

for something to truly be pixel art, you need to have full control over the placement of every pixel






also, just for shits and giggles, say this WAS 100% hand-made, you have barely any contrast between shades, it looks like you still haven't started shading until you zoom in even further than you have it

Jesus christ stop posting so much.
Double posting is okay if it's been a day or so, but every time you post, another one by you pops up within a few hours

paraphrasing every comment in your art threads on tsr ever:

Slow the hell down. Work on your form and shading before you move onto something else. You really need to improve your technique with.. everything, instead of hopping aimlessly between tons of unfinished pieces that you make no attempt to improve. The least you could do is take some of the advice given to you while working on one of these and try to apply it to another, but you really don't even do that

it's like every time you try something it's you're using your hands for the first time ever