Hey, Im new to pixelarting.
I did a few tutorials but I just can't seem to get everything right, so I decided to focus on more simplistic pixelart.
Im trying to achieve the style used in the game sword & sworcery, If you dont know what I mean by that, here is their website: http://www.swordandsworcery.com/

So far I have gotten from to
I think that quite some progress already, I used http://artfiles.alphacoders.com/422/42294.jpg as a reference to the character.
I know my shading isnt right, but someone on reddit said shading would make it look better, so I just added some darker colours to it.

but since I want this character to walk I need to have some sort of movement animation.
But the best I have done is but it just doesnt feel right and looks a bit funny.

so what are your opinions about this? and how do you think I can improve?