Reddit reviews Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes: Volume 2: The Walt Stanchfield Lectures

Drawn to Life: Volume 1

Drawn to Life: Volume 2

I recommend these two books for general art learning.

https://www.amazon.com/Drawn-Life-Classes-Stanchfield-Lectures/dp/0240810961

https://www.amazon.com/Drawn-Life-Classes-Stanchfield-Lectures/dp/0240811070

For pixel art, you need basic art knowledge, and practice making pixel art. If you are a super beginner a good exercise is to copy 1:1 a square of a pixel art sprite you like without using the color picker. Do that a bunch of times, and you'll learn which kinds of colors work well together and many of the techniques that go into producing good looking pixel art.

oh and a few more books I just thought of, don't bother with any other books than these as most of them are crap:

http://www.amazon.com/Force-Dynamic-Drawing-Animators-Second/dp/0240808452/ref=pd_sim_b_11

http://www.amazon.com/Creating-Characters-Personality-Animation-Graphic/dp/0823023494/ref=pd_sim_b_13

http://www.amazon.com/Stop-Staring-Facial-Modeling-Animation/dp/0470609907/ref=pd_sim_b_19

http://www.amazon.com/Dream-Worlds-Production-Design-Animation/dp/0240520939/ref=pd_sim_b_23

http://www.amazon.com/ILLUSION-LIFE-DISNEY-ANIMATION/dp/0786860707/ref=pd_sim_b_20

http://www.amazon.com/Drawn-Life-Classes-Stanchfield-Lectures/dp/0240811070/ref=pd_sim_b_7

http://www.amazon.com/Film-Directing-Shot-Visualizing-Productions/dp/0941188108/ref=pd_sim_b_24

http://www.amazon.com/Acting-Animators-Revised-Performance-Animation/dp/032500580X/ref=pd_sim_b_46

http://www.amazon.com/Vilppu-Drawing-Manual-Glenn/dp/1892053039/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1330652274&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Artistic-Anatomy-Practical-Art-Books/dp/0823002977/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1330652258&sr=1-3

http://www.amazon.com/Draw-Looney-Tunes-Dan-Romanelli/dp/B0032FO6G4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1330652405&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Bridgmans-Complete-Guide-Drawing-Life/dp/0517255464/ref=pd_sim_b_95

And this book two of my teachers wrote, it has a lot of the concepts from the Ringling course: http://www.amazon.com/Ideas-Animated-Short-Finding-Building/dp/0240808606/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1330651988&sr=1-2

This: https://www.amazon.com/How-Draw-sketching-environments-imagination/dp/1933492732/

This: https://www.amazon.com/Drawn-Life-Classes-Stanchfield-Lectures/dp/0240811070/

This: https://www.amazon.com/FORCE-Dynamic-Drawing-Anniversary-Force/dp/1138919578/

And this: https://www.amazon.com/Figure-Drawing-All-Its-Worth/dp/0857680986/

Drawn to Life Volume 1: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes: (and/or Volume 2).