Beginner seeking guidance

[BlackTar in a Jar]

Hello all!
I'm completely new to pixel art but I'm willing to learn. Please excuse my many blunders and kindly help me improve

[(BYOND)Hebrons]

are you sure your new to pixel art o.o ?

[Cyangmou]

looks like a generic guy with a cape - the concept is much weaker than the execution.
You should give some hints how you want to improve it and give us some background infos for what the sprite is used or if it's just practice what you want to practice or where you think you have/had problems.

[BlackTar in a Jar]

It's just for practice. My greatest difficulty with it is with the cloth-effect, showing folds and knowing how much to show. The cape looks a bit plain.
Other than that colour and lighting can definitely be improved, and anything else the professional eye finds wrong with it.

[wolfenoctis]

Looks like Tetsuo from the anime movie Akira

[BlackTar in a Jar]

Yeah Akira is one of my favourite anime's and Tetsuo is definitely one of my favourite characters!

[winged doom]

Good work, but I don't like his hair and black stroke, so, little edit:

[BlackTar in a Jar]

Man that looks awesome!
Thanks man, I feel I've already learned a lot!
I've reworked the the piece according to your example, with a few miniscule differences

[wolfenoctis]

Try to make his stance more dynamic, currently its weak and static. Also use some refferences for cloth to get the folds right. I made a edit to illustrate:

I kept the same basic stance, but just made it more dynamic, I also used tetsuo because I like his colors more. Hope it helps 

[BlackTar in a Jar]

Thanks for the advice, I will work on my piece a bit more
Your edit, though it's very well done, is a completely different sprite however. I wasn't trying to draw Tetsuo even though the cape and hair is similar. There was one or two things about your edit that seemed a bit off, so I edited your edit:




Thanks again, I will try to impliment what I've learned from you.