I think it's the amount of the detail you could fit to the original ones. Look at the character on the back, I can tell from all that detail that his a traveler of some sort but the only thing I can tell from the new one is that well his a guy with a scarf, that's about it. Try to add a little more detail into them, give more character to the new ones. I like the style on the new ones but they new more character. I hope you get what I mean.

This.

Left leg is awkwardly posed.

Exactly what I was saying but it's always better with an image example.

Yeah I guess you are right but as you said it's pretty small and I can't do much to it without making it look cramped but I'll see what I can do. Also I don't really like the darkest shade of the yellow so I'm going to shade that. Also how would I go about adding AA to the outline, without making the outline bigger, cause I want to make it transparent an the usual AA won't work (at least the one I know).  

But do you by any chance have any suggestions on how to make it more unique? Also is the shading on the body ok or should I do sownrhing to it? How would I go about makibg a simple bounce/walk animation?

C+C on the new one? I think I finished it mow but any comments would be greatly appreaciated. If I finished I shall move on to something else, I will not do infernape until I actually learn how to sprite porperly or atleast good enough to be able to do that.

Great start on the mushroom. I made an edit that addresses some of the issues.


-I increased the contrast to show depth
-Removed innner-black lines and other unnecessary outlines

Here's something that may be useful:

Thank you so much for the edit, let me get editting and see if I can achieve what you did. Thanks for the tutorial too.