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Light works in a certain way so that the shading isn't actually convincing.
But, IMO the main reason why the shading looks dumb is because it doesn't seem necessary. We can shade the ball as well as we want, but it would look out of place when the ball is supposed to have a pair of wings that are mostly just flat color.
One thing that sticks out right away to me is that your shades take the form of: / As opposed to: )Thanks. You're right, I need to make things more rounded for sure. I'll mess around with the three color approach and post the results soon.
It's not very conducive to conveying roundness.
Also, you have five different colours. I would recommend playing with three. Start with the middle/main colour of the sphere, fill the entire object with this colour and then chose a lighter colour and a darker colour and add them in where necessary. After this, perhaps choose a highlight to give it a little more pop.
Finally, a quick search on google images can provide you with a ton of really useful reference images.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=sphere+shaded&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=WnpRU83DKYPJ0AWS5IDwBQ&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1746&bih=830
The black borders mesh the details too much. It is entirely more readable on the left version. Rather than take your detailing to the outside edge of your borders why don't you try taking a step inside the letters and raise them forward with a bit of highlighting or a lighter shade of blue.
I think he means that if you wanted to use the logo in real life, blown up for an A2 poster or something, it would be very noticeably pixelated. the fact its pixelated isnt a problem if its meant to be pixel art, but he's rightin that you may want to vectorise it later in Illustrator or something, for ease of use if its going to be printed in various mediums and scales.
Id just concentrate on the design for now man! you can scale it later if you need to.
heres a cool title screen logo/font, 50px high i think
http://www.emuparadise.me/Sega%20Genesis/Titles/Probotector%20(E).png
I honestly think you should rework the letters a bit. This entirely subjective though. Since you said you were working on the F, I feel it would look better and more readable if you separated the forks on it. Also try to make the letter proportions and the kerning more uniform, for example, the F and A look small in comparison to the chunky N.
I think you could also work on a more interesting design
Your image editor has a text tool: use it. Drawing text from scratch isn't mandatory.
You'll need to try many different fonts, sizes and settings before obtaining a good starting point for the actual pixel art effort (cleaning up outlines and coloring the letters), and this experimentation cannot be done by hand. Moreover, basing the logo on existing fonts is going help you with simplified vector art variants (suitable for printing).
Also, depending on your needs, a larger (possibly much larger) artwork size could be better.
For example, if your em size is 50 pixels (more than in your current sample) and letters are printed 20 cm tall (e.g. in a traditional logo on the bass drum), each pixel is blown up to 4 by 4 mm: quite huge. A banner would be even worse.
Your F has a nice, tasteful treatment: if you work on good looking letters that fit together, with enough room to do something more complex than a vertical gradient, I expect the result to be good.
Before we can help you can you post the regular size of the F and not a scaled version? Pixelation has a nice feature where by clicking on it resizes the image plus it makes editing it easier if we have the standard size.
