Welcome.   

I'm sort of a biginner too (pixeling less than a year), but what I see is not enough contrast.  Your colors seem very light and I'm on a dark monitor.  The lollipop seems a bit flat...better shading would help that.  Your animations are cute though.   

I kind of liked the hand.  It kind of added some more depth, interest or something.  Also I'm not sure about the current hair.  To much bangs...kind of like a pretty boy.  That's just my taste though.  Nice work overall.

     
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@EyeCraft - Thanks for the suggestions.  I tried to implement them as best I could.  The face still needs some work.  Hair too.  This dark crt keeps me from seeing the colors correctly.  Once I get off this one I can clean up the palette a bit more.  I also adjusted a few more things such as the stripe on the shorts, left shoe, hair band, shading on the face and left arm.  Anything else you see?

@Elk - That's a great doodle.  I guess I was going for a bit more cutsie here.  Thanks.                           

Helm,  That's just crazy what you did to the eyes.  Amazing!

I think what you had in the beginning wasn't that bad.  A few tweaks to the hip area would pull the whole thing together and enable you to see the other parts better.  I know what it's like doing anatomy.  I could never pencil out a whole picture, but working pixel by pixel I can put something together.  I recently did a legs spead nude (too much like porn for this site), it was small...maybe 100x100.  It took me about 3 hours.  She came out cute too.     Yours looks 3 times that size.  As a beginner myself, something this size would probably take me 6 to 8 hours.

All I'm saying is it takes a lot of tweaking for me as a beginner.  So don't give up.  I think you have something going here.