Looks cool! I agree with the points made by 32 about the contrast. The arm and the form of the cloak near the top are getting a bit lost. For the arm, this ambiguity may also be caused by some tangents with the shadows on the pants near the hand. A tangent is when the edges of two forms or shapes are touching or nearly touching, making it difficult to tell which object is which, or obscuring the silhouette of a form. Clear silhouette helps your artwork "read" properly at a distance. Considering that there's also a bit of a tangent with the sword and the cape, the easiest fix to this might be to move the position of the arm and sword either up or down (down might require less editing).

The perspective and twist of the legs is really awesome. It's adding a good amount of dynamism to the character's pose. It would be cool to see that aspect of the gesture reflected in the upper body and cape more. If you have a mirror and something cloak-like like a blanket, try standing in the same way your character is - one leg back in perspective, pelvis turned to the side, and upper body/head directly facing the mirror. I tried this just now and what you have is mostly correct, but there ends up being a bit of a twist in the torso fabric and the cloak can have a bit of perspective applied to it for an even more dramatic effect - if you want to, you can push this. I'd say that making a standing pose look dynamic is one of the hardest things to do so great work there so far!

Everything here is in an acceptable state except for the face

I'm sorry but you need to entirely redraw that, preferably with some reference material on hand. Everything else here can be kinda glossed over.

Got a report from a user who didn't think this comment was constructive enough. I see what you're getting at, but can you elaborate a bit more on what you think could be done with it? OP might not know where to take it or what to look for just by looking at a reference. What kind of references should OP seek - photos or other pixel art faces?

Done and done. Good luck!

I think what you've done to the arms and shoulders on the front view helped. Be mindful of the banding that's being caused now underneath the head and along the sides of the body where the darkest shadow meets the black lineart. It's causing a bit of blurriness/ambiguity. Easy fix - just reduce the shadow very slightly so the shadow isn't hugging the outline for the entirety of its length. Also consider broadening the single-pixel highlights on the pecs now that there's more room. The shading adjustment helped with the feet. No complaints there.

I'm not particularly concerned about the arm length at this point - it seems fine. If you want to nitpick with the arms you can consider trying to better show the bend of the arms in the front and back view, since arms at your side aren't generally vertically straight, but I worry it might be too drastic since the arms are going subtly between the pixels of the grid (the elbows are in a subpixel location, if you will).

This is subtle, but you may want to consider standardizing the location of the specular highlight on the head. Have you ever held and rotated a reflective ball or other spherical object? It stays in more or less the same place, unless the camera changes location. You can try it out if you own anything spherical or uniformly cylindrical (a soda can comes to mind if you don't have anything spherical). It seems counter-intuitive but the reason for it is that the location of the specular is being caused by the light source itself bouncing off a form toward your eye. So if your eye or the light source don't move, and the shape of the form is roughly the same, you'll get essentially the same specular reflection.

Nice changes. I appreciate that you simplified some of the shading. The forms are still being defined but it’s easier to look at.

I think it may be that having the arms be one pixel longer in the side view matches up better in terms of relative proportions. The average human’s fingers reach to around halfway down the thigh when their arms are straight. You may want to lengthen the body and upper arms on the front view, as well as lower back and arms on the back view by one pixel height to remedy this. It will have the additional benefit of helping the positioning of the feet be consistent with the side view. If you look at where the toes of the front view are currently, compared to where they are in the side view, they’re higher up. It might be a bit more obvious if you put them in the same spot on different frames (as in an animation) and flip between them. Watch closely for any “shifting” of features.

Cool concept, by the way. I’d say start animating if you’re confident about the sprites or sit on it for a few days if you feel like something might be bothering you. Smart move to make sure you’re happy with it before making it more work to fix stuff.