paper mario pixel art

[Garamonde]

You're still using the line tool and circle tools. Don't do that, as it makes everything look really unnatural and ugly.
Here, try scribbling out the basic shapes of your sprite. By hand, with the brush tool. Like this:



Then, try to clean up the lines until you have a decent shape. Like this:



Then try to color and shade it, but don't pillowshade (check spriting dictionary). Try to have a light source. Imagine that the sun is shining above your sprite: that means that you would shade around the lower areas of the character's body.

Also merging with the old thread.