I have no background in art at all, I did gcse art but apart from that it's mostly pixel art. I wanted to take up art after I left school but my mother refused to let me do art and graphics when I had done soo well in maths and science, so pixelart is just a hobby whilst at university.
1) hadn't really thought about that, will stop doing that now.
2) & 3) I will find some references before redoing them. I was quite happy with them but now I looked at photos of wood and tiles I realised how far off I was
4) Ok, I had looked at one sort of tutorial I found on google, probably missinterpreted it I will look for more
5) will look at the clothes again, I knew they weren't right so will just work
Don't worry about the harsh critique, I joined this site so I could see artist's work and get critique from people who know what they are doing, whereas before I had only relied on friends and people who only knew runescape-pixelart. Just a shame got soo much reworking to do, and got revision as well so I doubt will finish this challenge in time now