Hey all, I'm pretty much new to art in general. I'm actually a hobbyist game programmer, and I'd like to be able to make my own pixel art for my games, so I'm trying my hand at learning this stuff. My test project of sorts is a game where the main character is a troll.. so here's what I came up with:

It's probably cringingly bad to those of you who actually know what you're doing :). I'd like to make it look better, but I have no idea how I'd go about doing that. Perhaps I'm starting off too advanced here? I'm not really sure. Any help or insights would be much appreciated, and even critique, though I'm not sure what could be said about it except "it's bad"... ha. Anyway, thanks :).