The ear is more curved/natural so it is an improvement.
Although, the style of your ears are very different from the style of the player sprite that we use, you can try to mimic the palette and shading style that is used on the hand.
Also, don't export to jpg, jpg is bad for pixel art, export to png instead.
And use a proper playersprite, the one that you used doesn't have any anti-aliasing.
You can use that sprite for reference
https://gitlab.com/evol/clientdata/raw/ ... n-male.png
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