Mine's Sprites

[Alectric]

If you're wondering about bases, i pretty much sprite a new base for every sprite.
It can be time consuming, but it keeps the chars looking different.

All you really need to do for your base is make the hands look like hands, because as of now, they are just a ball.
Perhaps making the shading outline some of the bodies features too would be nice, like chest and muscles (dont over do it)

or you could completely disregard my advice and make up a completely new and original style yo!