lpflicke, awesome thanks! Yeah i am still not really sure what to do with the colors, i like the as you described grim, dark look of it but i find that changing up the colors to incorporate a better contrast it quickly looses that feel again. Which is opposite of what i sort of want it to look like.  I have been messing around with adding shade to the hair and making it a larger resolution giving me more freedom with shading, hopefully preventing the cut down the middle problem. I think ill hold off on further animating it so far.
Ill see what i can do and post an update.

Rocifier, thanks! I think you are right as the animation has no real purpose other then making an animation. Ill focus on getting the character right first before going on to animations. So far i have only been looking at sword n sorcery style characters ( which i really like ), would you have any other recommendations of a similar style?