noobly attempt at spriting

so yeah, i don't know if I'm at all good or not at spriting (likely not), but i was hoping if i could get some feedback on this sprite I made. See where I could improve on and what i could change to make it better. Though before people ask, yeah i did take parts from other canon sprites to make it, but there is a heavy amount of custom stuff that i made myself in there. I'm just not to sure if it's enough to be counted as my own sprite or just simply an edited one.

It looks sort of messy from afar, but zooming in it's actually pretty good in terms of the rules of spiriting. What would really help is adding in more dark gray outlines instead of black; that might clean up things a little and help to make the arm look more defined. I don't know if he's wearing a mask or something, but you should clean up the face a little. But really just fix up some of the outlines.

thank you, I'll try getting an edited version up soon to see if i did it right

There we go, hopefully that's what you meant. Still new to spriting, so i hope I'm following the advice you gave me