Damn, pixel art is hard. I wanted to give it another go - my past attempts have not been good enough for me to even post. So an evening has gone by, following a few tutorials and trying to design a character I want for a future game Pobo - Galactic Explorer. After hours and hours of pushing pixels onto the screen I get this:

Static and walking. It's um, good for me and probably good enough. Does make me realize quite how much time and effort artists put into these things. Kudos guys.