Shuugo said:
It's probably not bad enough to be deleted but it's not very good either.

I'd say - "That's just like, your opinion, man". But I don't know whether you're referring to artistic quality or just image quality.

Shuugo said:
The character has been vectored by vectormagic or another automatic vector tool

Um. It was completely traced out in illustrator.

Shuugo said:
and there's some jpeg artifacts in the background itself.

I guess I jumped the ship there. Thanks. I'll upload PNGs in the future.