You need to fade out smoke very slowly and carefully. Taking note of every particle and making sure it slowly dissolves into nothing.

Overall there's a very nice animation shaping up here

Just a little bit too dark but definitely better. And looking much better overall. When shading avoid hugging one row of pixels completely with another, this is called "banding" and it reveals the pixel grid in an unpleasant way. Try to stagger them.

At this resolution you have to let the pixels control your character design to some extent so if you can only make thicker arms look good just flow with it.

Technically your proportions are pretty close to real life but pushing these things will make for a better and more easily readable character.

Nice move looking at reference. The vertical stripes look good, do whatever you think looks good but I went with crescents.

A different pose or different dress design could certainly help but this dress is totally workable (though it will be a bit of a pain to animate)

Take a look at what I've done with the shoes. The yellow is holding you back a bit I think, the colour is just too close to the skin. I used the pink so that should give her a stronger colour identity.

They're looking better. Eyes at this resolution are tough. Maybe try a different hairstyle that gives you a little more room to work with. You probably aren't going to be able to give her a "proper" face any more easily.

I did a more subtle edit this time. I'd suggest flicking between them and your drawings to see what I changed and how I've pushed pixels around to make stuff read better.

First off I will say choose an outfit you like and stick with it. Customisable outfits is a massive task. In fact just animating one outfit is a massive task. Multiple is just too much, maybe consider customisable colours or something that won't require you to reanimate dozens of frames.

Secondly your pose is really good! Usually not something I see from newer artists

I've done an example of how you could draw the character to make her a bit more anatomically correct (or at least interesting if not totally correct , the legs especially are obviously pretty stylised)



The main issue I see is that your character is very spindly. This is usually a result of trying to draw using lineart. You'll find that lineart is not a very good approach for pixel artists because a single pixel line is very very thick. It would be like trying to draw on paper with a massive poster marker. I suggest drawing using block colours and then add the outline after the fact.



On the topic of boobs always try to make them smaller. Unless you specifically want the character to have giant boobs even drawing them as small as possible they're still going to be pretty big. I wouldn't outline them generally, just try to keep them more as shaded forms. Unless you're viewing the character from the side or something they aren't usually going to be an important defining shape and you want to be emphasising the chest and shoulders more so. Especially once the clothes go on in most cases you'll probably just want to define them as "top of boob" and "bottom of boob" using different shades and highlights and not outline them at all.

On colours you need more contrast. Way way more, I can't even see that there are separate shades. 3 shades per colour is more than enough to have a nice artstyle and you definitely want to keep it down as low as possible. You can still subpixel with this if you know what you're doing. Don't be beholden to black outlines. Colour them in where it looks good or you need to define shapes a little better.

You're right about the chest being a little high, you could either move it down or move the hips up like I have. I always prefer longer legs though.

The outfit has come out pretty damn well so I don't have much to comment on there, if you work off a bit of a chunkier base sprite I think you'll be in pretty good condition.

Looking good! I see those tree spirits

I think overall there is an issue of fairly uniform lightness and detail. Try to compose not only with shapes but also light and shade. At the moment the whole thing is a bit flat. Due to the composition and the detail my eyes are really just drawn to the points of his feet which is probably not where you want me looking, the composition as a whole is quite good at directing you toward the main figure but once you get there its just a whole bunch of arrows pointing down.

The pixel detail is all looking very solid! Just take a minute to step back and look at the image as a whole and figure out where maybe you can pixel a little more softly or sharply to draw the eye to the important things.

Edit: Colour wise I also think I'd really like to see those reds elsewhere, the elements all feel a little bit disconnected.