Shade's Sprites

[Shade]

I'm new to this forum, and I haven't been able to find that much help on improving my sprites, so I thought I'd try here.

Model Searchman
http://img123.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sm2nx5.png

Model Bass
http://img517.imageshack.us/my.php?image=modelbassod3.png

[Doogles]

They're recolors, primarily, with a little C+P work, and minor edit work on search.
Also, you don't paste the Bass fins from BassXMega from BN5 onto a ZX sprite. That's style clashing, and that's bad.
I think you may have gotten the Search head from the MMZ Searchman that somebody made... somewhere. I've seen it before. If that's not the case, then it probably came from the BN sprites, which, like I said earlier, is style clashing.

I assume you're fairly new to spriting, judging by your work.

[Ryo Hazaki]

KR, I think the head did come from the BN sprite, as it's angle's too far off for Z/ZX style.

Shade, you need to add contrast. Model SM looks unshaded, and Model B's energy attacks don't look like energy. Don't pull colors off of a MMBN sprite for a ZX one. I suggest you look at official ZX sprites, probably the enemies, for the colors you need.

Other than that, it's a good start so far, and I definitely see room for improvement.