EO4 - Maya Owl (Pixel Art)

I spent the whole day working on this, but it was definitly worth it (13 hours, including occasional breaks and failed pattern). Have been wanting to do something like this for a while. I dunno if anyone noticed, but throughout the creation progress I made screenshots and put them in my shoutbox (I might do this more often). If anybody wants to see them: #1 #2 #3 & #4. This number might increase. foreshadowing huehue

Anyway, I just love the maya owl design, so I wanted my first bigger (250x200 canvas size) pixel art to be one of these (third time doing pixel total). I kinda experimented with this a lot, but I love how it turned out. I decided not to do any black outline, and I think I'm glad I didn't. The pattern used to make the colors flow took a long time, but worked better than expected.

I enabled critiques so if anybody has any tips or anything, I'd very much like to hear them. I'm really enjoying doing this, so it would be nice to know where I could improve.
I could already sum up quite some mistakes, but who knows. Maybe you won't notice it or will find something else more important idk

Also testing out this schedule option. This was typed one hour before uploading Yes it worked! I'm already loving this function