I tried what Sureal had posted, and this was the result:
Please, I wanna be able to make this a true sprite, so I wanna get crit so I can make the rest of the body...
I can't shade, so can someone help me? I'll send it to you so you can shade it... I just can't do it!
Save your images as GIF files, rather that JPEG - that way you don't lose any picture quality.
If you don't have a program that save pictures as a good GIF file, instead save it as a BMP file (that's standard for Paint), and then use GIFFY (google it) to convert the image.
You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. — Aldous Huxley, Brave New World