Cole MacGrath from the Infamous series in 3 different flavors (from right to left Evil, Neutral and Hero karma), one of my top favorite video game characters from one of my favorite video games. I've tried to emulate Castlevania style before and wanted to try it again with less colors this time. The image of all three is 24 colors total (including transparency), but each has 9 colors apiece, save for the far right which has 10.

I was gonna animate it, but got lazy... Maybe next time. It's also a little small for a Castlevania sprite, and Castlevania seems to really prize somewhat high contrast palettes with distinct, bold colors to really make every color count (something I'm getting the hang of still), whereas the colors here ended up a little soft and desaturated - so, in short, it's... far from perfect, hahaha. I really love the Castlevania series - its spritework is just beautiful, and very hard to imitate. You sure can learn a lot about other pixel art methods and how to efficiently use them through trying to imitate a style.