hahah, I like the mario one.  Now someone has to make the mario/zelda game.

I think some of them could be exagerated more.  For example the one with the exclamation point could have the pupils shrunk down to dots to make him look more surprised. The smiling one could have the sterotypical n_n sort've look. This isn't anything big because they look really good as is.

The moving eyebrows are entrancing. I think I stared at them for half a minute.

Hey Helm, your edits are always appreciated. At first I had no idea what you meant about lacking contrast but then I corrected my gamma setting and saw how washed out it was. I'm definitely trying to learn how to make video game art so thanks for catching that.

I really like how the background came out, The clouds look nice and billowy.  It's easy to see that you put a lot of effort into this.  If you were aiming to give everything a textured appearance the eyes look unfinished because they aren't dithered.  Good job on the wood also, tis a fine pirate vessel.

I did my best to make this look more finished and cleaned than my previous work.  He started out as a generic looking warrior guy then I decided to give the armor a more insect like look. C+C is appreciated.

hitler edit.

Hehe, thanks for taking the time to do that.  I really have a hard time with colors (been doing nothing but b/w line art for years) so it's neat to see the full treatment on a sprite I made. I'm gonna save it and use as reference.