I didn't contrast his shading and highlights enough, did I?

Welcome to pixelopolis, first off.

About your sprites:

The grass and dirt tiles aren't bad, they're just repetitive. Get detailed. Try to define the blades of grass, and make a few different grass tiles to randomly mix in with the other grass tiles to break up to monotony. Same thing for the dirt. Add cracks, rocks, divots and ditches. Make dirt spots in the grass, etc. It's easy if you make a base grass tile, then duplicate it and place it next to the first grass tile. Then, make a dirt patch that spans over the two tiles. Add blades of grass (2-3 pixels high) randomly in some dirt spots (or in the dirt tiles) to make it look natural.

As far as shading the tent: First, I suggest changinbig the door into the tent. Make the lips of the tent doors fold outward, to look more natural. Then, shade where you think the tent might have natural folds / wrinkles / creases and put highlights on the p[arts closer to wherever your light source is coming from.

That's all for now, my lunchbreak is over and I have to get back to my job!

I took most your guys' advice from the (First Pixel Art) topic I made, and kept them in mind as I pixelled THIS peice!



His name is Handy, he's one of my comic characters. He doesn't believe in drinking, smoking or sex. To most (if not all) of you, this guy seems like a total square. But that's just one of the traits that makes for wacky and creative humor in comics!

Ahem, that's aside the point.

I used dark colors for outlines, not black. Someone suggested to increase the contrast, and I did not do that because I wanted the shading to remain subtle, yet striking. That made no sense. n____n

HIS left hand (our right) is in a weird position. Other than that, I like how this particular peice turned out.

So, more criticism is appreciated!

Alright, I took some of your advice, and used it to create another mockup and a spritesheet!

NOTE: The graphics ARE very tiny, but if the game ever gets made, the resolution would be better and you'd play in a zoomed in type of view. So, no worries.

Here's the mockup:

The sun lost it's black outline, as did the ground/water, and the character changed! Also, there's an HUD.

Here's a quicky spritesheet:

Please note: the graphics aren't meant to be all that amazing; most of these lack shading (most**) and the frames of animation aren't very long. I've intended it to be this way because, sometimes, simpler is better! I have the HUD there, it includes: Health, Money, Lives, and powerup. The powers you can get are Lightning, Fire, Ice, Water and Rock. You can see how the attacks would look if you look above the HUD. The main character animations I have so far are walking, jumping, being injured, and casting spells. (no real "frames") I also made a textbox, alphabet, and text arrow!

Let me know how you feel about this newer version.