Need some feedback

[Zapchu25]

I'll second with Gors. There's nothing wrong with MS Paint in the slightest. I've been using it myself for about ten years and would say it's perfect for pixel art. 

You could make pixel art on a Ti-83 calculator. I've used pretty much every program out there and I can safely say that not a single one of them has made me "better". They all just adhere to a different workflow preference.

But in turns of OP. Your sprite sheet says that it's "Doom-style", but it looks far from anything actually used in the video game.


If you see the sprite on the left, it's almost half the size of yours with 100x more shading. When your copying a game's style, you need to have the sprites of that game with you at all times as a reference. So what I would suggest is that you diminish the size by half and then begin to add a ton of shading, go crazy. 

We'll help you fix the way you go about it, but at the moment it seems that you first need to grasp the concept of different shades before you can learn how to properly use them.