Runouw's sprites

[StarSock64]

I prefer the ones on the right. There are some things from the ones on the left that i think could find their way in there, but they might cause too much fuss to try to implement. The hair thingies on the left woman, for example, are probably doable, but you have to know how to improve readability, and that might not be something that you want to slow down your project right now. Plus, all of the little stray pixels and such are just going to be hard to animate.

The thing that's bothering the most with those is the shading on closer arm on the woman on the far right; it looks banded and sorta detached. There's banding on the skirt of your version of the left woman, too.

A lot of your characters seem to have a weird torso:leg ratio. Some of the...stomach...areas? look too tall for how long their legs are. I think it'd be better to play with shortening the torsos a little more than elongating the legs, so probably give that a try.

oh and that swordsman, it looks a little off-balance. Shortening the torso might help with that, but I wonder if moving the head one pixel to the right will help too?