Making pixel art characters for game

Does anyone know if i’m gonna be making pixel characters for my game, like a wizard game where you can unbox different staffs and clothes etc, if i have to draw a pixel character with no clothes then attach them as they unbox? what about staffs too? do i draw them with the staff or do they each have to be separate drawings

You can do both, but i guess making separated elements is easier.
A very simple way to do it is having several game objects for the equipements and enabling/disabling them as you need.
for instance:

“naked player” game object

“hand” game object

“staff 1” game object - enabled
“staff 2” game object - disabled
“staff n” game object - disabled