Hi guys,
Posting my first few sprites I've made to show the improvement I've made in my very short journey with Pixel art.

This is the first sprite I made based on the Walk frames in this gif of Curses N' Chaos
I went away from this because I felt that doing sword swings would be a bit cluttered would like help with that matter if possible:
Then after a few days I came up with this

and later reduced the amount of colors cause I felt the shadow under the hair was abit too much:

Finally, I tried making a sword swing animation which is what I would like the most
critiques/help with I didn't use and reference when coming up with this so I know it going to be pretty bad:

Took me about a month to come up with most of these I'vd been slightly modifying the sword animation for about 2 months.
I'm going to update this thread regardless of if I get comments or not for as long as I can, Thanks in advance!