The sword looks much better although you can make the handle a bit longer, atm it looks too short to hold.

About the strawberry, shading aside you have shape issues, from this perspective it should be 3d and what you have is too flat.
Try remaking it but with looking at references first and then re-upload it.

Here's my try at making the skull more visible on different backgrounds:



I also reduced the colors; there were so many, I didn't know what to do with them!

The pro's might not like my outline because it has a broken outline on the left cheek, but that was the only way I could think to make it look right on the bright and dark background.  If anyone wants to edit my edit, I would like to see it.

The thing is, in game the skeleton will probably be in darker areas like dungeons and graveyard or something so there will be contrast between its white color and dark background. About the amount of color, you're probably right I'll try to reduce them.

I'm no expert so you might want to wait for a more professional advice, but I think the dithering isn't working here.
shadows are smoother also it kinda read as noise to me.

Hey so I'm making a game and I'm here to improve my sprites.
I'll post my progress here also for others who might have issues in the future, so that they can learn from it(for ambivorous too).

So in my previous thread I decided to go with 32x32 sprites.

I started with a skeleton:


Also an idle animation:
I used what people in the slack group told me and I'm pretty happy with the final result.

Now, I used the edit Atnas posted in the other thread and tried to apply what he said on my skeleton also to match the current style I'm going with:


There are a few things that I find wrong\bad, which are:
1. The ear, might be too big or unnecessary.
2. Shading on the hands(Have no idea how to do them).
3. The left eye(can't add the white because it will contradict the perspective also the skeleton's skull.
4. The left leg, looks too straight/fat.
Also I'm not entirely sure it matches the skeleton's style.

I'm going to play with it more, hopefully you can help me and give me suggestions

EDIT:
So I made a few changes:
1. shrank the ear a bit.
2. played with the hand and leg a bit.



EDIT 2:

Got rid of those weird hand shadings hopefully it looks better now.