Hello, guys.
I'm new to pixel art, even though I have some illustration experience. I'm trying to make a side-scrolling beat'em up game, kinda like the Capcom's X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse. There are various games that are being used as reference, but graphically I'm trying to do something like Delphine Software's Flashback and Seta's Nosferatu.
The game will have a comical feel, like Earthbound, Earthworm Jim and Metal Slug.
The main character is a woman, based on my girlfriend's carnival costume, and I'm having some trouble defining her pixels. I'm trying to use no more than 12 colors on her, but it's hard for me to define the light&shadow on her pixels
She will have 54 pixels of height, and I'm thinking of using a 256 x 192 pixels "screen".
How she looks:
Her "skeleton":
And she in a 3x image for those, who like me, get some blur when zooming in: