What onek said is right, it look to much as a dress. It is good for your second pixel art.

Well the feet are not visible because its actually a chess pawn. I'm planning to do more pieces in the future

yeah much better now... also the axe fits better to a dwarf , but i dont like the clothes.... looks too much like a dress to me...

Thanks for the comments Onek. You were right, I hadn't given much thought to it since I hastily uploaded to use as an avatar. I worked on an enhanced version of the icon with - trully :) - 8 colours this time. Didn't want to go to less than 8 and lose detail

I updated the file, it's much better now

judging from the inefficient use of - actually - 18 colors,this seems to be shrinked down and color reduced.... 

heres a cleaned up edit with only 4 colors... 

http://i992.photobucket.com/albums/af45/oooonek/dwarf.gif