yeah, that's a lot better. rated up to 6/7 now :)

Okay.  I tried to fix the shading on the left leg.  Good, now?

By the way, thanks again.

edit
Yes, definitely. Further comments in the link above; mainly I fixed a lighting inconsistency on the left boot and made a few lines in the cap look cleaner.
IMO there's still a lighting inconsistency on the left leg (our left), considering that the sprite seems to be drawn with lighting coming from the angle of the upper right.

the 'random unrated pixelart link' is handy for getting to art you haven't seen, btw .

Thanks, Neota.  I'm surprised you found this.

I fixed it up according to your C and C.  Is it better?

I also changed the color and the Master Sword a bit.

rated 4/7, cause:
* green cloth looks too soft -- it's a tunic mainly, and it's a fairly stiff material, so there would be less folds and less roundedness.
*at least one boot looks too shiny. flattening the appearance of one boot would improve the impression of depth.
*the shiny blue/white thing on his left (our right) arm is way too bright and so looks out of place. I'd expect that it was shadowed, and would probably be a single flat color; if not, then only the bottom right corner pixel would be highlighted (this would also emphasize the shape of the arm.).

I can see how it would look that way.
Link has blue gloves with a brown pad on the gloves.  The gloves kind of have the same color as the hilt.

Well, you happened to add the thumb holding the sword and the blue from the hilt isolates the thumb and makes it look like it's either going through the sword, unless that's not his thumb, in which I would suggest changing the colour as it is kind of deceptive.

Its at an angle so that the hilt's side doesn't face link..
Unless you already knew this, and the hilt is too thick

Agh Double post

Looks good, though the sword's hilt seems just a bit too thick.