Emote OC - Feline

I've been trying for a while now to learn how to sprite so that I could make myself a cool new icon. Well, that wasn't working So today I decided that instead of starting out trying to pixel awesome humans from scratch without any experience (I really should've thought that through), that I would start smaller, with emoticons After making that decision, I stumbled upon the incredible world of emoticon art, which is much bigger than I thought it would be

After a whole day of looking through many tutorials, and looking at other people's amazing emoticons, here is my very own Emoticon OC! I'm pretty sure the name's Feline (because that's the first part of my username,) and I'm actually proud of the design This took a lot of the day to do, (spriting emoticons is harder than you'd think!) but the easiest part was actually the animation The pattern on the back of the emoticon was originally going to be something like Leopard spots, but I liked the idea of something symmetrical so it's a bit more like Tiger or King Cheetah stripes

_{You may have noticed that there are two parts to this; on the top is the emoticon with 'hands' and on the bottom is the emoticon without}

This is my first emoticon and my first animation, so I'd really like to know what people think