The tongue is much improved right now.
Boy are you a messy mid-pixeller! At least on 1x zoom things look cohesive enough to guide the cleanup process. Good job with the yellows.
The tongue is much improved and visible now, the concept remains hilarious.
about the little hats... tell me about it. The most constant critique I got about the original piece is that people thought the corynthian helmet was a mohawk. So what you should do to avoid the same thing: mae sure the hat is very simply drawn and reads well immediately. If you have to use another palette slot for a more vibrant green, then so be it. Link's hat is also difficult to draw and have it make sense generally.
I trust you'll be getting to the hands eventually? Right now they're still no-anatomy