This vaguely reminds me of the "Is this loli?" discussions on certain boards
At any rate, what are you trying to do here ndrake? And what is your concept? What do you want to show? When you do stuff really small, you might need to think about starting to remove some information, and exaggerate other. Make each pixel do the work of two, or three!
The face of the dolphin is interesting. If you're just fooling around, maybe try scrapping the seel body and give the head a cute little humanoid body? It could be a chibi Yeti with a snout!