It would benefit you a lot if you sketched in most of the elements on the level early on. This way it's easier to judge what kind of detail goes where. If you do an ubercool superdetailed rock pattern now, it might look too hard on the backround or sprites. Keeping everything under control is more important than a cool rock pattern.

Also taking a walk through the forest will be far better than a tutorial on the web i thinks 

Thanks and u mean mostly like a hand sketch or a graphic sketch xD?

There's a few redundant shades in there (I count 13 colors, you could probably take it down to ten or less). Also, I think because of the peculiarly shaped highlights and the slight pinkness, they seem more like flower petals to me than rocks.

any tips on how i should highlight? and can you copy the shades and circle which should be used and the others taken away
Thanks ill appreciate

Thanks for the help ill give a look

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but how can i make a good sprite with few colors.?

Well, you essentially need 3 colors for each area. For most stuff, you need a midtone (which is what color the thing actually is), a shadow color, and a highlight. So for this sprite, you would have:

3 skin colors
4 colors for the green clothes (extra shadow color)
3 colors for the arm wraps
2-3 colors for the leg things
1-2 colors for the red wrap

Then, if you make the darkest green dark enough, you can use that for the hair, and the lightest white from the arm wraps for the highlights of the hair. The white from the arms can obviously be used again on the belt buckle, and eyebrows can use the same black as the hair. This is just a suggested palette, maybe not the best but it is probably what I would do if I was making this. You may think reducing the colors like this will decrease the quality of the sprite but it's not true, it will make it look cleaner and crisper. Forms will look less blobous and more clear. It will also make you carefully consider what you are doing, because if you do something incorrectly it will be quite apparent, and will not be fudged by the tons of colors.

Omg nice explanation thanks
Ill do a whole new thing to this sprite and post it again to check out the difference Ok

The only thing i wanted to learn first is the anatomy like you outlined..
Like how did u get the size of his head and knew that it would be 5 heads the height.
I am sorry if i am asking too much it's just that i really love pixel art and i am up to learn a lot of things
and how do i measure his arms?

Hey everyone i am new here and i would like your opinion on my art..
it's rock Lee from naruto with a mountain bkg.

C+C are welcome!




[The bkg by it self ]