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[Chris2Balls [:B]]

a lot of new spriters do this

stop shading just to shade. you've got a gradient going on in every section of the clothes, you're paying attention to lightsource, but you're not paying attention to what you're shading (you wouldn't shade a circle like you would shade a square for instance)

you need to pay attention to what it would ACTUALLY look like, and you've got a huge ref right there so i'm not really sure how you've still got the gradient thing going on tbh

Put simply, shade according to shape and lightsource.
Anyway, I still see improvement.