Faeldspr's Top-Down Sprites

[Jamuk]

Looks like a flat, brown crocodile-thingy. Instead of adding those hardly visible "darker" detail stripes, you might want to add some actual shading to convey volume and depth.
You generally have way too many shades with too little contrast.
Either way, real top-down perspective is usually quite hard to do right because it is really difficult to portrait said depth and make objects not look awfully flat.

How's this? I've done sort-of dithering along the sides of the body.