very nice 5*

I did further edits according to the comments, as a result, the color count rose to 16.

Thanks to Seven, BBD and Macks for the support, and there are no hard feelings about the suspicion.

I've been considering giving Strike more of a "mecha" style recently. Any opinions on the matter?

awesome character i think, the red dots could use a pink hotspot so they wont look so flat

definitely has a Capcom feel to it.

Haha you're so good that people think you're an imaginary person LOL :D JK

Seriously the sprite is real good, you know it. He reminded me of sort of realistic Megaman X, dunno why, maybe the colors :D

You finally ended up here, huh?

The design, colors and shading overall are really good. There are some anatomy issues I'd like to point out though.
His abdomen could be a bit shorter and his chest would compesate the space the former lost.
Also, his legs could be longer too, I feel that now that you have made his body bulkier, he could have longer legs.

6/7 ;D

I like it. Reminds me of Sonic Blast Man: http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/snes/b/sonbla2.htm

OK.  IM happy now.  Thank you for clearing that up everyone. 

Well that's a relief to hear. Now they look even better than they did already.

Ha, took ya long enough, Oakie. :P

There's no reason to be paranoid about him, I've known him for a few years, he's always got awesome sprites like this one. Now we'll just wait for Shoba to post something saying the same thing. :P

The red dots you added don't show up very well agesnt the black like the white ones do. Adding some skin tone to the buttom of the circles might make them pop more.

http://robertoakes.deviantart.com/

Fixed the link.

He is real folks.
[url]http://robertoakes.deviantart.com/[/url]
Nice work as usual Oakie. I'm not really sure what I think of the design, it seems rough and sleek at the same time. The helmet though, I definitly like.

The differences are the red dots. 

This is a great piece.  But I have to agree with Jalonso that there usually is some suspicion with these situations.  Don't take it personally. 

What's the difference between the two of them?

Welcome to PJ! I really hope you don't take this in the wrong way. From time to time people join and their first piece is too good to be believed, such is the case with your sprite. I checked your profile and found no link to a site with your work. A casual googling on you came up empty too. This of course only adds to the mystery. I will hold any opinion until more art is submitted/shown by you. I hope you are for real.