The origin of the character was that I can't draw humans in pixel art, but somehow do ok on paper. So I took a character from my sketchbook and tried to copy it 1 to 1, keeping all dimensions the same.
Since it turned out to be 32x32 I couldn't use it as a character sprite and decided to make it a portrait, which is why I'm making an adventure game :D.
Btw here is the current state of the game (I just noticed the portrait has the wrong background color, will fix that now)