[DRAWINGS] Doodles and Finished Pieces 2.0

[Virt]

I drew Phoenix and put it into Indexed color mode into Photoshop. It was made as a style test. My coloring seems to be working fine, but the face doesn't look exactly how I want it to.
Note: I didn't actually do any pixel art here besides some cleanup. I just put the image through a color palette.

I'm actually really curious about this process. Do you think you could explain it a bit more? I'd love to give it a try, myself.

I drew his head in a large resolution and then scaled it down to 256x192. I picked colors I wanted from the drawing that I wanted to be included in the palette (32 colors including transparency) and put them in an image. I opened that in Photoshop, set the image mode to Indexed mode, set the mode to "exact colors," save the palette. I then open the drawing of the face and set the palette of that to the one I just saved.