Some critiques for the second image:
The outlines look quite broken everywhere.
The blue thing on the staff looks like a hand, even though I assume you're going for... feathers?
The girl's colours are too similar. Consider changing her hair colour, boot colour and staff colour (the purple part)
The style is nice. I like the shape of the cape.
Maybe less hair and more face?
Her bracelet is too close in colour to her skin. I didn't even see it til now.
Outline her fingers on the right hand more.
The spiky part of the hair clashes with the smooth flowy part
Alright, peace, I'm out
Nah, it was supposed to be a hand coming out of the staff. I kind of 'broke' the outlines on purpose because whenever I did do a full outline of everything it looked sort of flat, though I probably still need to play around with this a little more to get it right.
Yeah, the color scheme probably needs more contrast, to be sure (especially the bracelet), but I was hoping to keep the color pallete looking sort of 'soft'. Any suggestions on how to achieve this sort of effect?
As for the 'shape of the cape' and 'spiky hair', everything in this frame is wind-swept. This is supposed to be part of an animated gif, and this frame would probably be somewhere about midway through the gif. I could do a no-wind version of this, wouldn't take took long.