>>4324638I would say that Shovel Knight tries to mimic the general 8 bit palettes of NES games, albeit with more colors. NES games aren't really known for having appealing color palettes (of course appealing is subjective). I'm not a huge fan of SK's colors, but they're a cut above a lot of the amateur stuff out there.
SKII, on the other hand, has a fantastic palette, if you're on board with the charming & colorful style.
But yea, color is HUGE, and pixel artists tend to value it a lot.
>>4324636for a first attempt, I think this is just fine, it's not a gross mess of too many colors, it's not at way too high a resolution (a common problem for amateur pixel artists), and it has charm to it.
Check out the Miniboss tutorials if you want to get more into it.
