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[Mephisto Maker]

Bomberman is pillowshaded all around. The head looks OK, but the shoes really need to be changed. Bomberman's feet are round, not pointy. You shouldn't be afraid to deviate from the shape of the original, and take a close look at how the original's shading works so you can use it to improve your own. You don't have to do the selective outlining, but at least try to make the shading follow the shape better. It's not bad, and you've gotten the animations pretty close, but there's still much room for improvement.

yo!
about the bomberman... some times i prefer to use a more simple way to use shading giving me more time to improve the anims, in that case i was using a template and i get pretty close to it, like you said, i was using that simple shading to have more time to do various characters(i'm lazy to make such characters if they have a more complex shading xP) and i know that i can improve them. and a thing that i like, but the others pixel artists don't like, it's a totally black outline is better, at least i think like that. xD

and sorry if i say something wrong, or you don't understand something, it's because i'm using the google tradutor xP