Mmkay! My Humble Sprite-Shack

[Lexou Duck]

And speaking of Mario...

Better? Worse? About equal?

what i meant about the design is that whereas the original had somewhat exaggerated choices in terms of proportions, yours tries to equalise it more (apart from the head that stays big but that's almost always the case in pixelart)
and where in some cases going for realism (im using this word in a very vast sense, bear with me) is way cool, on NES restrictions i cant really see much good coming from it, most of the time

i'd suggest you try and and play more with an imbalance of body parts, it makes for generally better and more memorable designs, specifically in a cartoonish universe such as mario's