Sazh's "pixel art"

[Novally]

Your shading is lacking a lot. There are some instances of pillow shading and some of the objects light source doesn't agree with the other. I see you tried dithering. you kind of missed the whole point of it in some of the sprites. Here is a tutorial for dithering:

http://www.furcadia.pixelovely.com/dithertut.html

http://shonegold.deviantart.com/art/Dith...s-65642027

http://pixel.oceansdream.net/?p=406

(pardon me if any of the links are broken)

Here is a nice archive of sprite tutorials that has helped me.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/586616/Flash%20R...rials.html

And some simple pointers to help your pixel art.

http://www.spriters-resource.com/communi...?tid=13868

I would give more advice but I'm getting tired so I will be back with more specific examples of your mistakes.