Need help/advice on character template

[Azaron]

Not being that great at spriting people or anything else that lives (I can draw everything else but people and animals, for some stupid reason), I wanted to appeal to some of you really good character artists out there to see if you could give some advice based on this ugly template. I have read many tutorials on the subject, but I learn more by studying actual works than trying to work directly from theory, at least in this area. So, without further ado, my crappy character template :


What I really need here is crit on the proportions, mostly. Something is off, I think, and I can't quite figre it out correctly. Maybe it's just that it's outlined in black, I dunno. The template is total width/height of 50x70, as that is the size I will need for my game.

Any help is appreciated as I am sort of stuck at my current level of suck in this area.

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

Move the head up one pixel for a neck, move the arms down 1 pixel, move the groin up 1-2 pixels and you should be okay.

[Azaron]

Like this? That certainly looks a bit different, at least to me... wow. amazing that such a simple adjustment could change it that much.

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

Looks much more symmetrical, now make a character with it