yeah, I should just post these in one topic (no one seems to really comment on them anyways)
I have a good idea for a game with an original story called Dark Harvest (which I have actually written already). This will be based on the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game... The game and story is quite complicated and will take me quite a long time to complete without help, so It will be an ongoing project (it is quite art-intensive). All of these sprites will not necessarily be used in the game, but in practicing and developing my color selection, highlighting, and shading techniques, I thought I would stick to the topic. Animation practice is next, I think. Thanks for responding and asking!
Yeah, the whole Yog-sprite is too uniform... I love the look of it, in general, but it doesn't have the other-worldly feel that I was going for. Design problem this time as opposed to color and shading...