Hi all. I'm in the process of trying to make my own battlers in the game. I'm using navest his battler as reference. (http://i1366.photobucket.com/albums/r770/Navest/Seth_Battler_001_zps89e8760a.png). I've never shaded or pixelled anything ever before, aside from some minor edits here and there.

I tried making my own version of one of my character sprites, but I'm struggling _ a lot_ with the shading. The fact that the original sprite was holding a big shield isn't helping either. I didn't fix the arms yet as I'm not sure yet what weapon he should weild. I've probably changed this sprite about 4 times already. Could someone give me some quick C&C regarding the pose/shading? (esp the coat, I don't know how to shade it at all)