Game sprite. [Warning: Newbie]

[cm2001]

Hello everyone. This is, as you can gather, my first post and I was wondering if anyone could offer a critique or two on this sprite I've done.



It's not that good, as I'm sure you'll agree and I was wondering if you have any advice on how I can improve it. It's a little small right now and I might have to zoom it about double to get it to the right size, but I'm only a beginner to pixel art, so be gentle. What do you think? Should I redo it a bigger size or what?

Thanks.

[Sherman Gill]

First off, it looks good. In this forum you can click a picture to make it larger, by the way, no need for pre-zoom.

Okay, the face lacks defining features beyond her eyes. This is mainly evident when you zoom it in. I recommend you add a mouth, use a dark skin shade if you do.
Next, you have too many colors, you could probably have the same result with maybe half that color, so you definitely need to work on color conservation.

[AdamAtomic]

the dress looks a little pillow-shaded to me, otherwise i think you've got a good knack for this stuff, the character was very easy to read and her forms are crystal clear.  work on your shading and palette some more!

[cm2001]

Thanks for the positive responses. I took a long time doing this, with lots of trial and error. The one thing I wasn't too sure about was the black outline, which I thought looked a bit stark (is that even the right word to use?) in comparison to the rest of her. I couldn't find any other colour that looked right. I did want to put a bit more detail in her face, but like I said, it's a little small to fit many expressions on. I've tried to do her bigger but the results have so far been pretty awful.

I think shading is definitely my weak point. Sometimes I can do it okay, sometimes I can't.

[cm2001]

I've updated it a little and got rid of the nasty black outline around her head.



Here's another one I've done. She's supposed to be thinking about something, although I'm not to pleased with this one :

[Souly]

Her arms are too dark on the new pose.
Try lightening the shading.

[cm2001]

Better?

[Skull]

Better?

Not particularly, compared to the face, they seem a little too tanned.

[cm2001]

I knew there was something that didn't look quite right about it.

[Xion]

Still too dark. Try to make the arms mostly the lightest color on the face. She kind of lacks elbows. Her arms just bend. Aside from that this is really nice.