Warm Summer Night Love WIP

This is my first full out completely pixeled piece xD
I'll be entering it to an emoticon contest.
News Article here => [link]


_{EDIT 1: finished dithering the sky xD
EDIT 2: REALLY finished dithering the sky. It took so much longer than I thought it would. Drawing every single friggin pixel is a pain in the you know what. Now it's all nicely blended :]
EDIT 3: Made some stars o3o Some of them are heart shaped xD Are they okay? not too busy looking?
I don't know how to pixelate grass though...
it's annoying me....
I'll get working on the actual emotes for now...
EDIT 4: Done the emotes! Yay! I'll now be adding some fireflies and I'll try to make their light reflect on the emots a bit.. on the bushes too.
EDIT 5: Made the fireflies! And added a heart thing too :] I find it looks overly busy :[ What can I do to fix it?? Darken the fireflies and brighten the stars? Or vice versa???
HELP ME!
EDIT 6: Okay, I bug sprayed some of the fireflies and it looks better-ish now... I still can't texturize the grass D:<}


I can't make the bloody gosh darn grass!!!


Please don't use my work as a reference or any part of your art,
and please don't steal my idea for the contest either!
Thanks!



Hope it looks alright for now!
I might make it animated if I don't get annoyed first

Critiques would be very much appreciated! Even though it's still a work in progress xD
It would be my very first critique! ^^
Woo!



~~~~~ Finished Product here:
[link]