Claude from GTA III updated

Here is my start on Claude with Locke as a base, though I'd like to give him a bit of depth on his frontward facing sprites with his shoulders, because he's got more depth than Locke has. I'm trying to decide on whether to use like a rifle or pistol with his custom pose. I have seen him fire a rifle in-game and it looks similar to Cyan's fighting stance. Also Setzer in his objectionary pose would be good for a pistol(which probably would work better)
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Also need some input on the pallete at the moment.
Eye color?(Green or red?)
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Also how do you do custom poses? I always wanted to make some for myself but I do spriting in an on-again/off-again fashion and the thoughts and ideas are there, its just putting the idea in pixels if you know what I mean.