Game in the Making, needing some art help.

[Krizzit]

Hello ladies and gents, I am new to the whole sprite game system and i am struggling on making a few major characters look good, I've tried to use the generator but I have no idea where to start with making a character look awesome like most of you people do. Where to start, Well the game is old day and at this point there is a party of four. (Warrior, Archer, Mage, Thief) If some one could help me get Krizzit(Archer) working and maybe a few poses from the Warrior I'm sure i can figure out/ edit the others to the other classes. I'm Programming in Java so its a little harder for us.


Warrior

Brown Hair,

Heavy Mail, main color being Black(Each Character has a color associated with them)

A shield and a sword preferably

He could have a helmet too but since I'm not drawing him out its tottaly up to you

Got nuts, Thanks in advanced

~Krizzit




<Edit: Posted a picture with what the archers rough charset looks like. Just for reference.>