Hello! I'm new here. I've been doing a lot of pixel art lately, so I was thrilled to find this place after Arne mentioned it in a blog post about his 16 color palette. The critique here is some of the best that I've seen in an internet forum.
These are a couple characters that I've been working on for a little top-down action RPG demo. They were designed to have replaceable heads (the cyclops body would work just as well for a troll or minotaur or demon...), and I was trying to keep the frame count low for the heads, but the lack of head motion has been bothering me. I've been waiting to do the east and north cycles for the cyclops until I've figured out his arm motion. It looks too mechanical right now.
Thanks so much for taking a look. I'd love to get feedback on these, and I hope to get a lot better at this with the help of the kind people of this forum.
Also, if you'd like to see some more of my pixel work, I made a quick tumblr with some recent stuff
http://martyisnothero.tumblr.com/