Ashura's Alchemy Lab

[Iocus]

Might as well kill 2 birds with 1 stone, still no arms on Adron most likely because I lost interest in the sprite I was working on (that happens way to often) So I made a black mage, not quite sure what to say?

EDIT: alternate brighter palette

You need to be more conscious of your lightsource. In your picture, there are more than a few elements that aren't quite following the same lighting path. As always, the obligatory edit:

Left is my edit, right is yours.

At the bottom, I demonstrate this point. Your intended source is presumably the blue circle here, but the robe suggests that there is light coming from the lower left, his right arm seems to be taking in some light from the upper middle, and the hat's banding suggest the light is on itself.

I figure you wanted to make the hat look tattered, but this much detail instead makes it look messy and choppy. This is a small sprite, so you sometimes must sacrifice detail for readability. Additionally, the right arm should really capture much more light. You can hardly tell there are two shades on that arm.

That's another thing, your colors -- Contrast, more contrast! Blue and purple are inherently dark colors, so you must make their shades especially distinct to make the lighter colors stand out. Your yellow shades are also too unsaturated and pale-- give them some more red!

Finally, since you seemed to be going mostly for an outline-less style, I attempted to make that more evident.

EDIT: Yay, 100th post!