I'd like to learn

[E-Man]

Well the tutorial I'm following only says to use the straight line tool. I did switch, It's much much better. Thank you.

Here's the tutorial in case you're wondering: http://www.sythe.org/graphics-resources-...paint.html

That's a really bad tutorial by a guy who has no idea what he's doing. Don't follow that.

No offense, FinalSmash, but why did you choose that tutorial of all things? I took a look at it myself and even the less accomplished spriters can sprite better than he can (he doesn't even know what hue shifting is). Also, the fact that he was mostly getting buttpats from his work instead of the solid critiques you could early find on this site smells like bad news to me.

Anyway, for your Mario hat, I think you made it too big. When starting out in pixel art, I would recommend you try something smaller, so you can easily edit and manage it without any hassle.