Okay,

There have been a few developments.

I've been playing around with process a touch, I wanted to experiment with combining both paintitool SAI and Pixels into the same work. Originally my thought was to transfer pallet and design from pixels to sai, but it ended up coming back when I started to play with fessler's index painting tech.

Things are still WIP (still have to refine the body). But here is some progress.



(index and refinement progress included for you puritans )

having all those points as categorization labels in a single huge forum might work, (but this also makes more work for starting a thread)
Splitting all those between boards wouldn't be that effective, but a good directory for finished threads is valuable - if you want to read stuff on a certain topic.

Actually I quite like that, having one big working board, and then numerous theory boards where threads are categorized and retired. And where particular process pieces can be developed. It would also make any relevant good read a touch easier to find when your looking for something specific.

Animation board was my idea. 
There was the same concerns as yours from others.
I made some silly arguments.
Then we made one.
The end.

Whoops sorry for the shiner PPD  :O

I don't actually disagree with your argument at all, my only point would be that i'm not sure if we have the numbers to make it a reality.

More specific categorization is a good way to bring a topic into focus, but it certainly has it's issues.

If we, for example, have an animation board then why not a should we have a games art board? a portrait art board? all of these things could benefit under a closer more focused lens and all of these are huge topics worthy of there own board in scope, however the issue with categorization is that it tends to ignore the points in which these subjects intersect. Portrait art for games, animation for games, animated portraits, ect ect. It also runs into the problem that a particular thread, especially in pixelation, has a tendency to evolve and change, people often bring in things like animation to a static piece to further a process, where then does this thread live?

The second issue, and this one is more specific to the forum, is that by adding a different section you tend to split views. I might to talking mostly about my own habits here but I tend to only really check the general and pixel boards, not because I dislike animation but simply because I don't often think about it. More then that when I have an animation to post I am unsure sometimes where to put it, the animation board may be more focused but the pixel art board gets the most attention most quickly (as far as I can tell).

I am certainly not against the idea of bringing more focus onto animation, and if this is the best way to do it given the limitations of an old forum then fair enough. But perhaps nesting it pixel art could work, or maybe making a board with duplicate or redirected threads (idk if that's technically possible) so we could maintain focus without things not showing up on the main stage so to speak.

Lovely work, always nice to see more of a fine arts angle with pixelart.



I played around with making a the face more readable, also got rid of / balanced out some slightly redundant colours.

I didn't look at it much but the back of the neck & back could use a little work as well, hard to pin down exactly why, might be a bit too rounded for a figure this thin. 

The legs and foot are really tightly pixeled, I like the unusual colours as well. Great progress on this.