Messing around with one of my custom styles

[Kami]

I've made some sprites for a community project I've started on another forum, it's name is Mario Anniversary. I'm going to show some things I've done so far:

Part of the Grassland Tileset:

Goomba:

Water:

[Shade]

@Goomba: The colors are very dark and boring, in Mario games you always get the impression that everything is bouncy and bright. I'm also having trouble finding the destination of the light source, and the head is jaggy in a few places.
@water: Very bland and empty, not much going on except for the weird shading on the surface.

[Cobalt Blue]

its quite hard to see anything close to as tyle purely based on whats eems to be a bunch of generic tiles and a goomba with a pint of banding.

but i'm sure you've got more to show in this style, dont you?