So, I've been working on getting back into pixel art these past couple of weeks, and I threw together these icons of some of my characters. I'm pretty out of touch with how to stylistically approach doing art in such a small space, so any advice is welcome! I decided to start with just some headshots because it was a lot less daunting than working on full characters, lol.

I'm also nnnnot completely sold on some of my colour choices, though I think overall they have something similar to what I want the final images to look like. Working with a reduced colour pallet was probably one of the hardest things because I'm far more familiar with painting and the like

(Oh! And because I know it may not be suuper obvious with portraits, the second character from the left is a bat, and the middle character is a lion!)