Looks more like crumpled paper, I'd say reduce the facets some more.

Here's a really quick edit, is this what you mean?
Looks more like a boulder but I was hoping I could somehow make it more realistic.

depending on which size it should be displayed on, if i zoom in i feel like the clusters are a little big for a tree since it consists of small leafs.

I noticed this as well. I think it looks substantially better at 200x than 400x, though I'm unsure how important it is. As it stands, it's just something I'll keep in mind for future reference.

I've never pixelled a tree before but overall I like how it came out. That said, over the course of this entire day I felt like I was really stumbling my way through it and would appreciate a critique and/or a good tutorial (haven't been satisfied with any of the ones I've found.)

My priority was once again to only use full clusters.

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Thanks for the advice about Louie, I went ahead and tried him again and hopefully it applies some of what you've said. I also cleaned up the cat.



Still not quite satisfied with any method of making their eyes yet.