The arms use more light than the boots, so there is no reason why not. You won't remind it if you aren't exactly looking how the color is distributed. The arm could even be a little brighter too, more like the face.
If it comes to correct perspective, the view angle should also be alittle bit higher than it is at the moment, but this would affect the whole sprite but if you aren't really experienced with doing things at your own from scratch it's easier just to edit the head.
Fair enough. Thanks a ton, I've done some edits to Mr. Poofysleeves and he's begun to shape up a bit, although I'm finding it difficult not to match your edit.
EDIT: Without accidentally quoting myself this time, too!
I redid both of his "stances" to the new style. I apologize for the extent to which your edit looks like my current version, Cyangmou. I promise they're not nearly as similar as they appear from a distance.
I also redid his vestments, it was beginning to look like he was wearing a ball dress several sizes too small.

EDIT #2: Redid the shading on the shield to make it a little less... visually cluttered, and added a new guy, trying to keep the perspective.
Also stopped playing around with fun little splash poses and started working on the bases for the movement animation, since there will be movement in all 8 directions (the 4 cardinal directions and their 4 midpoints). I know it's one of the tropes of RPG standing animations to be very stiff (I plan on dissolving this a little bit by having "idle" stances the the characters will shift to when they haven't moved for a few seconds, a la Mr. Poofysleeves standing with his shield at his feet and his sword over his shoulder), but is there any way I can lessen this in the sprites themselves? The stiffness bothers me, but anything else and it no longer looks like they're standing and/or ready to walk.
Also I'm not sure about their perspective again, it seems off but I'm not sure what the problem is.

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