Creya reads as cyberpunk rather than steampunk to me. Hot pink and grimy metal (and being able to see her legs :V ) make me think of a neon dystopic future. It's a bit of a copout to claim

pink is appropriate for a girl

AND

First of all I went with the classical male/female scheme to imply that it's the mentioned timeframe. It's a really conservative 1900 world (woman don't have the right to vote and so on)

given that pink was a colour for boys - "In the United States, there was no established rule in the 19th century. A 1927 survey of ten department stores reported that pink was preferred for boys in six of them and for girls in four.[30] The foremost student of the role of color in children's fashion, Jo Paoletti, found that "By the 1950s, pink was strongly associated with femininity" but to an extent that was "neither rigid nor universal" as it later became."

The clothes she's wearing don't match the period at all - miniskirt and thigh-high socks?
It's not as if (wealthy) Victorians dressed boringly either way; they loved bright colours and fuckoff hats (and showing a bunch of cleavage):

I'm inexperienced with tiling, so I've probably messed up the water edge ones somewhere



I tried to keep bubblegum sorts of colours, just less eye-burning than the original. Also simplify, remove single-pixel noise, etc.

I think the trick is to avoid having a solid band of colour between two different shades (sounds obvious )

What I find I end up doing is making sure different tones have quite different "outlines", so my darker colour and lighter colour end up almost touching at a couple of points while the midtone acts kind of like large-scale AA on the sides. I'm sure I've explained that poorly, so here's an example:

(banded version exaggerated)

see how the shape of the red-orage blob is different from the mid orange blob is different from the yellow orange blob:

There is something identifiable about Asian artists' work (that's artists who are from the Chinese or Japanese pixelling scene), but I'm not sure quite how to quantify it. Often use outlines only slightly darker than the fill colour, tend away from very dark colours.
The ones that end up on pixeljoint tend to be quite talented too

So yeah, it might be the fact that members of Asian pixel communities learn from each other/subconsciously ape each others' styles (much like we all do) in isolation from what we're familiar to. You can see this at a smaller scale with the influx of Brazilians from sites like Pixelaria a couple of years ago, where they were all mini-Jinns

Chinese
marple
ivancat
llshadow

Japanese
Syosa
pel
seta45

Other genres...
Graphical styles that some people say would be better off in vector, OCEANSCENTED, snowk's newest stuff.