Hi Tensur,
I like the one on the right better.
I would try looking at it in more of a 3 dimensional perceptive, perhaps slightly vanishing and rotated on the y axis.
That would give you more opportunity for depth for the details.

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Do you think this mouse design is better? How could I improve it? I want to keep it fairly simple for animation purposes, but not look overly simple.

I'm still working on the background... Next post.

Please help me improve this scene.
I'm trying to make a farm field level and I just threw this together to get some visualisation, but I'm not sure where to add detail and if the colors are working well.

Hi, nice first try.
I'd say the first thing I'd do is reduce your colors down to about 6, you currently are using 40 colors. Maybe because you traced it from an image or something? (EDIT: It's because you saved as a .jpg. Save pixel art as .png or .gif)
Secondly, work on your lines. You have a lot of harsh, blocky line-work on your dark lines. There are some pretty good to follow rules out there about perception of the eye and how that relates to pixel art line work. I'm sure we at Pixelation.org have a tut, but here is one from another forum anyway. http://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11299
Please other members advise... on loction of linework tuts.

Thirdly, once you've organised your colors a bit better and understand your line work more, start thinking about  how you can add some shading. Pick a position of the light source and the light direction for starters, then you could add some more colors to make the lighting bring out the features on your sprite.

I'd also make the eyes a bit bigger. Smaller sprites usualy include a lot of expression/interpretation ranther than 1:1 reality.

Have fun