Um sorry I think I linked you the private link.



If that doesn't work http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25448229/player.png

The head and palette looks pretty nice for a start. However, there could be less straight angles. I notice this mostly on that pink backpack he's lugging around.

He seems to be leaning at an uncomfortable angle, or perhaps his head is misplaced.

I presume this is some sort of miner/spelunker with a gas mask/head of a penguin costume on. Hard to tell what those shapes are. May or may not be covered in a future edit.

Oh wait here it is.


EDIT: Wow, Fulbert, you're fast.

POSTIN' SPREE

Picture number one. The trees look good, I like the stylized look. Reminds me of a Kirby game. Only thing that bothers me is the player's sprite. What is that thing, anyway? Some sort of dragon? If it/he? were really leaning over that much I think he'd fall down. Problem should be fixed. Rocks--at least I think those are rocks--and other unimportant foreground objects or decoration shouldn't make use of the brightest color. Lower it down a notch.

World map: I can see lots of banding so far. Character sprite looks odd. I'll come back to that soon, though.

The main problem here is the lighting. You're not grasping the general form of the shapes very well--for example, the head looks flat, and not round like a sphere, and the 10 legs look like one huge mass. The texturing is pretty nice, if not a bit noisy, though.

Edit coming soon to a post near you.

Well anyway it's up to the TC to decide all this, of course, I just wouldn't pick up a dude's sprite and decide to add contrast to it, I'd rather suggest it instead, though I'm not saying you shouldn't have, as you clearly know what you're doing.

The problem with this is, sometimes an idea isn't clear enough through words alone. Too many words, and it can get confusing. That's why we pick up sprites and edit them to be "better", per se. (?) It helps us get a point across.

On topic now, Helm pretty much hit the nail on the head. Only thing I would fix is the mouth--it seems to be a pixel or two off to the right.

...Oh. So you did use a reference. I had a feeling you might have from the start, but what with the lighting, it wasn't very apparent. I suppose that took place in giving off the impression that the frog's leg, among many parts of the image were 'deformed'. It's important to know how to shade it properly, though.

Note you missed out on one of the frog's fingers hidden by shadow, and thus, the hand looks "bent". Also note, some of your lines don't exactly follow the image you traced, especially apparent on the frog's hand.

Other mistakes are rather hard to explain. So I made a bit of a guide, here, simply by shrinking what you currently have traced, albeit with a few modifications, to roughly the size you have your adoptable-thing, removing the image around it, and then cleaning it. Seems better than what you have now, so you might want to compare the two. Hope it helps.



Also, if you want to know what banding is.. Well I'll leave it to this guide, which covers not only banding but also many other things to avoid when making pixel art. In fact, that's what the section's titled; "Things to Avoid". Section IV, part 4 is what you're looking for.

One more thing: I'm not sure if fighting back against improper anatomy in your sprites is the best thing to do. You essentially seem to be refusing critique on one aspect of your pixel art and asking for another. That's.. That's actually something that's happened many times before if I recall correctly, especially in this forum. Take it all in. Trust me, every bit of it is valuable.