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The water is actually quite cleverly made (I like it), the clouds could use some touching up from "copy and pasting", the monster could use some pixel fixing (particularily in the mouth).
I'm sure with a little fixing you could make this a fairly good piece of work. You're off to a good start
just observe some older games which have pixel graphics (like Rayman 1) and you'll learn even more. Images are better teachers than words.