>>4051064Nice stuff anon.
>>4078655Dodge & burn is useful to accentuate contrast.
Using it for pixel art, you end up with a lot of similar and low contrasting colors and you're just expanding your color palette artificially and it gives this blurry effect.
It can be useful to create your initial sketch. For pixel art, you'd likely want to blend the similar colors together in the end. It looks better when you zoom in.
At this size of pixel art, I personally think that 3 shades max for each color is perfect.