Character sprites to match portraits

[siChainlinks 20]

Hi folks. I'm a pretty amateur spriter (I work from generator pieces largely), but I'm trying to improve my abilities to edit. So here are two sprites I've been working on. I've been looking at them for much too long, and can no longer see the larger picture or even, possibly, gross weaknesses in their details. If you have a moment and don't mind providing a little feedback, I would be very appreciative:

 

 

As for the portraits that I'm working from, credit goes to Sketcy-Sketch, and originals can be found here.

 

Thanks for taking a look!

[Neverward 210]

I think the sprite of the girl is very lovely, I like the way you did her hair accessory and the boys goggles. I think these are pretty nice sprites overall did you entirely create them yourself, or are there elements which you took from elsewhere?

[siChainlinks 20]

Thanks! Though there's still something bothering me about her scarf-thing. I think sitting beside him, the scarf borders look too soft, while his goggles have such hard edges. I'm going to see what darkening it up does, and maybe try to make more of a fold behind her head.

 

They're pretty much all elements I took from elsewhere, lol, but in tiny little pieces. The girl's top and head kerchief were the only things I drew (and with colour samples and contour guides drawn from the RTP). The goggles are modified from the generator (I found the generator placed them too low, and they were too big in a couple of directions), and the base for the guy is Ralph's sprite from the standard characters that come with the game engine (though only the hair remains, I think). I am terrified of trying to draw hair, but maybe I should just give it a shot anyway.

 

I figured to learn RTP style, what better way than to dissect (quite literally) some sprites! A scientist at heart.

[Tsarmina 2,612]

I think her scarf is fine, personally. After all, we are comparing cloth to goggles. For the girl's sprite, bottom left corner, compared to the bottom right corner, it looks a little different e.g. doesn't match. I actually like the bottom right corner better, since the hair layers just slightly and offers depth I don't know if the hair difference would have any effect while walking (lopsided effect? O_o) but you know best.

[rescuerabbit 3]

They look good, I really adore the goggles on the boy sprite. Good job.