Thanks for the help and critiques, everyone. Sorry for those of you who have been viewing the image with a black background, I had no idea that could happen x.x'. I thought the transparent spaces would take the color of the background of the site, which for me is currently a very light neutral color. I sort of actually wanted a simplistic image overall, but since so many people insisted on the image being to flat I decided to fix it up a bit. I hope it looks at least a little better!

And no, I did not use any type of reference. I sorta just doodled a primitive sketch and went along with it.

what's new:

-highlights and shading

-white border

-smoother edges on avatar version

 

Very nice. Did you use a reference or is this your original design?

Very Nice.  Cute too.

Aw this is very cute. The tail however could use a little more depth.

the tail looks like an elephant stepped on it(in other word flat)

Too bad you can AA with partially transparent colors... :(

To prove vedsten wrong, the AA looks great on my backgound(with the default theme). The only thing is that it will look bad on a dark background. You could fix it by putting a 1px white border around it(if you want).
The colors and pixeling looks great. Drawing is the same style as one of my friends.

The tail looks flat.

The outer AA will look crappy on  just about any background other than orange - you should change it. The highlights on the body (leg and shoulder) doesn't convey the body shape, they make him look flat. Other than that, nice job

I got a black B.G. so a.a looks crappy.

Since you AA'ed to a green background there should be one on the detail image. We can change our themes to darker colors and it looks bad because of the light pixels surrounding it.

But other than that this is very nice. The AA is ace.