You need a version without the stick infront of his face as a reference to work from... The Band around his hair is thicker than you have done... But it's still a good start.
Looking at these sprites and then looking at your request for help... Make me wonder how you managed to make these if you can't make simple walking sprite... The template you used "white ties"...?
If it's the template you showed early on of the naked dude with red hair... I can't see how you could make the running sprites and the bottom row on the below image without being SERIOUSLY skilled.... Are these Rips or edits...?
Using Grpahics Gale or MS Paint to make these, must be seriously hard... Would you mind making a tutorial on how you made them on the next one you do, may be the Assain sprite your now working on.... It would be good to see how you created such brilliant sprites.
I Know where you got parts from in the battle image below, like the rocks...
Any way use these battle sheet for the head.