I would just like to say wow, you really image linked every single one of those individually.
hehe yeah its kindof fun to see all the [image] tags quickly replaced by an army of little orange peg guys.
Issue of palette conservation aside, I kindof like the little guys, the do instantly read 'emoticons' to me for sure, the shape youve given them helps make them look a bit more unique to the cirly face ones (just as the square ones on pix help make them look unique for us here).
given for what they are, i actually dont even mind the fact that youre using a gradient on them. i think that for a community that doesnt need to focus on the hardcore aspects of things the gradient makes it look very smooth at 1x, and the saturation of your oranges and yellows does well for its visibility.
having said that, the pixel art aspect in application on these guys is rather elementary, and while ive seen much much worse on other smiley sets, i dont think youll be able to get much rouse out of this effort on this forum with these. I can say 'yeah they look cute' which might really be the only thing that youre looking for, and in a sense i suppose i could say well done for that. theres nothing really more for me to say than that though.
wait wait - are you ALSO sketchydan ?