Great advice from you both. Moved one of the legs one pixel to the left and further attempts to improve it were only making it worse. I think I need to just consider this set done and move on to others.

Just really minor changes at this point and I'm all out of ideas on how to improve them.

Thanks for the great feedback NaCl. I'm amazed out how such small changes make the character look so much more dynamic. In 2 I basically just finished your edit, my concern with this was that it looks a bit chibi. In 3 I tried to keep proportions in mind and made him 2 pixels taller to maintain a 3 head ratio for total height. His right (larger) arm still looks a little funny, I'm just hesitant to make it 1 pixel wide.



@PypeBros: It worked well for Link because of his hair, but for everyone else it would mean a pretty substantial change to their head size. I think I will try a version of a couple characters without outlines to see how that looks and that will address this issue as well.

I can just barely notice that maybe you lightened up the grass colors, but I'm not seeing any changes in the actual pixels. Did you accidently upload the wrong versions? I'm actually really not a fan of r1K's colors, but he has some good feedback. Right now your grass is essentially pillow shaded. Either get rid of almost all of the darker green at the very top of the image, add lighter highlights like r1k, or both.

Small update to Mario and Luigi, new hats and mustaches, and a poor attempt at Luke. Still struggling with shading, particularly on the bodies.