u definitely have to work on ur colors.... they are pretty dull, high contrast is important in pixelart...at first glance it seems like u used about 10 colors or so, but actually its 43! thats waaay too much for something like this , try to stay somewhere up to 16 colors when doing pixelart.... most tones u used are barely distinguishable, for example the outlines use alot of colors where only black would have done the job , maybe it was an attempt at 'selective outlining' but then again it doesnt work because of low contrast, also try to reuse colors and dont come up with an entirely new one for different parts all the time
heres an palette edit .... (14colors...)
thanks for the tips! i can't watch the palette edit now 'cause i'm at work, but i joined this site hoping to learn lots of new stuff about pixelart!
i need to be a little more methodic!