Fire-hair Platform character sprites (+bonus!) C+C please :)

[jakeonaut]

These sprites are for the character of a game I'm working on using Gamemaker. I found it very difficult at first to animate the hair-fire in a way that satisfied me. Still unsure about the walking cycle.

Standing Animation
Walking Animation
Jumping Up (in air)
Falling (in air)
Also here he is as a still in a position to push a crate, not sure about how the profile looks...


Along with the little guy above I've worked on a grass haired and an icy haired guy below. I'm fond of the grass-hair guy because it's fun to make his hair sway when he jumps and runs, but I really don't know what I could do with the ice-hair guy: his hair remains static aside from the occasional gleam.






P.S. Extra additionally here is a still frame of a limbless dragon boss I am working on for the first level, shown here preparing to hock a lava loogie:

Animating this big guy is very difficult for me... all of this is essentially my first work with spriting after I got tired of using my place holding blocks. Any help or comments would be much appreciated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

[Kasumi]

I'm not much for edits, but the dark green pixels above the eyes of the grass hair dude read like eyebrows to me.

Especially for this one:



It looks like he's changing facial expressions because of it.

[jakeonaut]

Ah, I see what you're saying. This may be because I originally intended for him to have eyebrows but forgot because his hair covered most of them... whoops 
I've remade the falling image to stay true to the brows! (rendered x2 cuz that's what the game will be rendered in, forgot to mention)