First Sprites need constructive criticism

[Hoeloe]

I'll try to reduce the blur and add some more contrast. I kind of prefer Photoshop over ms paint because you have layers and other tools. If necessary you can always change from brush to pencil to draw 1 pixel sized elements.

When drawing pixel art, you should never use anything other than the pencil and fill tools. If you use a brush, it produces anti-aliasing automatically, which makes things look blurry, and uses far too many colours. If you're trying to draw pixel art and you're not using the pencil, you're doing it wrong. I understand why you would want to use Photoshop (I use it myself), but use the pencil tool.