Hi all,
As you can see I am new to this forum. I am actually more of a game designer than a pixel artist, but when I needed portraits for a game idea two years ago, I noticed I quite enjoyed "just" drawing portraits with no particular purpose, and later on I started doing existing people to see if I liked that too.
I have drawn several portraits since and I have certainly improved (I find my first drawings very bad, and that's a good sign). However I haven't seen improvement lately, and I thought, well, that's the moment to ask others for their opinions, suggestions, etc. So I'd like to hear anything you notice you think could be improved, be it lighting, anatomy, coloring, proportions, expression, method, etc. etc. on the pixel piece below:
This is the distribution of colors:
Color countsHere's how I did it:
Progress imageReferenceHere's the two pictures I used for reference (yes, I am mixing pictures. I'm trying to depict a specific
person, not recreate a specific
picture ):
Reference image for faceI used this picture for the face, because it had good lighting, has a full frontal view and shows the right emotion.
Reference image for hairI used this picture for the hair because I liked it better.
I used a third picture for the shirt, but I couldn't find it anymore.
So...what do you think?
EDIT 9 March: please refer to
reply #17 for an up-to-date sprite and accompanying reference picture.