BrettG's Sprites and Pixel Art

[BrettG]

So I tried the pose and it was difficult to hold so I see what your talking about there, I'll get more refs down before I do that next time.
As for shading the Armour, would dithering be a better solution for shading in this situation?
Lastly I'll recheck the spriting dictionary for proper lighting examples and get some photo refs on the subject, but for now I'll leave these up here for future reference on what not to do next time.
thanks for the Crit!