i actually used some shading from (i think it was) the super bomberman series from the SNES or something... the feet and hands are made by scratch, the purple shading was used from a 16 million color palette in a program i have called Neo paint
i never knew why, but i actually have a talent at making feet
and yeah.... i think i might work on more of this, in time
i just thought of making bomberman's head a square (yeah, i'll fix it) since i normally saw it like that when i saw him for the first time
i also know how to shade like this from diffrent sprites i made (you can search my name on google to find the sprites, my full name is Flame_the_hedgehog)
but thanks, you really brought up my confidence to make more sprites of this :P