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[IceWilliams]

man, work on a darker background/canvas in future, it'll help with saturation and contrast.
i've made an edit to show how differently you could do your sprite, including your original (on which i edited a few outlines and the contrast and saturation and stuff)

scale of 1-6 facial expressivity
it all depends what result you're aiming for. i hope it gives you a better insight as to what you can do.

much apretiation for the help even though im still in the works of fixing the shading for my character

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The position and shape of the eyes is really... unnatural. And your choice of colours are still terrible.

im sorry i dont get it? can you show me an example

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Here is the example.
To explain, the eyes on yours are the same size, which would only happen if we were looking at him precisely from the front. However, you have him in a stance that has us looking at him from an angle, therefore the proportion of things should reflect that angle. Look at 1up's, the eye closest to us (our left, his right) is quite readable, while the further one (our right, his left) is just a single line. As for the position, they seem a bit low on his face since he is wearing a hat.

To explain the colors, see this:

ok, i think you just need to calm down and take a long, deep breath because it seems you're trying to accomplish more than you can do right now.

for now work on getting your colors to a decent level(asuming your sprite isnt an edit, the lines are quite ok already). take a look at this

Also, this:

His hat is really pillowshaded and doesn't follow with the light source of the jacket. You might wanna fix that

yeah your probably right im still a noobish shader

Even not knowing how to shade, you should still at least see the lightsource is off in your sprite.

The lightsource position seem to agree between the hat and jeans to some extent, but the jacket is just off. Look at the arrows, they show the disagreement of the lightsource position.

much aappretiation for this lesson thank you! time to make some changes!