My first Pixel Art, EVER!

[Shrike]

It looks good.  But wait!

50 FRIGGIN' COLORS.  DO NOT, almost ever, use gradients, especially subtle ones.  TOTAL waste of colors.  Most of these subtle effects are lost on the eye.  Color reduced:

Wow, only 10 colors!  Looks the same.  But still, otherwise vast improvement.  Keep it up, I like your style.  This isn't really an edit, just a color reduction.  I don't have time to edit atm..
BTW, do correct me if I am wrong, pixelers.  It seems to be a habit of mine lately.   

Later
Shrike

[Coconut]

Yeah, I'm kinda new to this...
Wasted to many colours, thanks for all your help Shrike.
Ill try figuring out other methods, so i wont waste so many colours, too many different colours for my hand made gradients, going to try to figure out how dithering works by the way-
I did use the reference that someone gave me, still having some problems with colouring and shading.
My next project is going to be a sNES remote, with a diagonal perspective, if that works out ill start making my own sprites.

Thanks everything mates, and most of all, thanks Shrike!