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(also dunno if y'all know ways to improve time, i spent like 8 hours in this...)
What would happen if you applied a moving hold at the apex of the "leap". Basically have less difference between frame 6&7, letting the character "glide" more at the top of his arc. There's also a huge jump in motion of his near foot from 6 to 7 compared to every other frame in the animation so that could be something to work on.
The way the mouth moves looks pretty weird, I get it supposed to be like a breathing motion but rather than that it kind of looks like he's hoovering something invisible and perhaps a bit phallic
Id uh
Id give that some tweaking
The rest is pretty dope though good job
I'm no pro, I might just have a little bit more experience with pixelling dirt. If you keep working at it, you'll have me beat in no time!
Try to work from dark to light when you're drawing in the tiles, and maybe use a larger brush. Instead of adding shadows, instead start with a solid shadow (your darkest brown), and add in the lighter areas, colour by colour, and avoid the tempration to add in 1px details unless you feel you really need them. It'll be easier to get nice clusters that way (especially if you use a larger brush instead of 1px), and it approximates how light interacts with clumps of dirt - it hits the flat/rounded surfaces, and the cracks between them remain dark.
To make the colour transitions feel more natural, try to think of the dirt clumps as a giant, irregular dither pattern. Don't cut your use of the brightest colour all at the same horizontal level - mix in some highlights lower, some darker clumps higher. Same goes for clump sizes, don't be afraid to have larger clumps lower too, and some more small ones higher.
I like the colours in the dirt. The lower contrast and cooler hues make them feel lit by the same blue sky as the grass.
However, aside from the colours, your tiles are identical to my edit :/ Please do your own work! Apply what you've learned from my edit and draw your own dirt according to your tastes. You'll learn more that way and be able to do better work on your next bunch of tiles. Plus, you copied my mistakes/laziness as well! The edits I made for you don't tile well with your existing grass-dirt transition tiles at all, they make noisy-looking shapes instead. You should probably also have more than just one tile for the middle row of dirt-tiles, as it gets rather repetitive even with the more organic shapes.
