32x32 Cute Lion topdown perspective character

[AlexHW]

Here's a little character of a lion I made with my pixel editor.
I plan to animate it as well.

Also, the editor allows outputting nifty gifs like this to show my workings.

[miro42]

That's really cool!  Very lion like. 

The only thing that is kind of distracting is the lion's crotch.  Because the square is all black it's the first things that pops out to me.  Maybe if just the corners were a shadow color rather than pure black it would soften it?  As of now, my view is pulled down there, which is probably not desired.