I've been working on pixel art for a while but it seems like everything i do looks so old fashion and always look overly shaded. It seems like everything on graal (most classic) have this new way of shading and i kinda want to get into that. But i just cant seem to understand it. It looks usually like there's only like 8 colors being used and they don't look pixely at all but more cartoonish which now what i really like. So here are some questions:


How many colors are usually being used?
Where's the light source coming from!!?
What kind of shape is all those shading "layers" (circles?)
How are colors chosen?
What order are colors used?.