I'm pretty sure this forum is more for critique; if you're just looking for a, "Hey your art looks good!" comment, this is probably not a good place to find it, as I hear non-critiquey comments like that are often deleted.

If you're looking for critique, post a work-in-progress of the piece you're having problems with. You're probably not going to get many comments on pieces that look finished.

Edit: If you want to have a gallery for your finished pixel art, try Pixeljoint.

Damage/death animation:


I tried doing it at an angle so I could use it for both the front and side views. (And also because I think it looks better.) I pondered changing to isometric at one point but I don't like using directional buttons for that, it always feels awkward.

I don't really think the guy adds anything to the picture. The werewolf looks stellar; he's bringin' her down.

Sorry guys, broad changes to the arm position, at this point, aren't gonna happen.
For one, I don't think it's necessary and I want the arms to be back there because of flow and balance.
This is more of a hand gesture than an arm position issue.

I just thought changing the arm position would make it easier to change the hand. Problem solved with the new one, in my opinion! The hand looks 100% better!

Yeah the fur does indeed not have the same length at all places.
Less on the front more on the back.

Yeah, I was just pointing it out. Showing a chick's girly parts in spite of fur seems pretty much the norm for furry art.

So I experimented with a font.

When an item is selected or the character is facing something interesting, something like this will pop up:

There will be no full-screen pause menu things if I can help it.

It still needs some shading and tweaks but I am so done with this thing for now. Back to animation. Sprites are more fun to look at anyway, haha.

Facet:
To be honest, I can only stand so much deviation from symmetry anyway. One of the reasons I like big honking UIs in the first place is that a thick frame is less intrusive than a bunch of junk hanging all over the screen. (In my opinion.) I also don't like having to pause the game to view a menu or something (nothing like pausing the game to use an item to interrupt the flow) which is why I tend to... well, shove everything onto the main screen. For lack of a better way to put it. Ahaha~

Seiseki:
I have never played any of the Resident Evil games, to be honest.

I'll be perfectly honest; there's a reason I picked flat, cartoony graphics for everything else. Rendering is not my forte, and it's not really the look I want to go for. Actually, I think I'm going to go back and flatten it out a little. My attempts at shading are just making it look like a mess, I think.

It would be great if everyone could tell me more about UIs obscuring the player's vision, it's super helpful. I wouldn't think of it at all if people didn't mention it every other post to remind me. Sarcasm aside: yes, I do think about it. I test it out every once in a while by laying it over the mockup to see how much it will obscure in-game. I've moved it down to the bottom:

I'm thinking of moving the circular part down a little further, actually.

The asymmetry of it is really getting to me, though. I could do something like this:

...but I dunno. Bleh?

Yeah, I think I'll just do something like that.

I really wanted to go for an antique frame sort of look but every comment I get wants to move me away from that so I guess I'll give up.

Edit: Unfortunately, there isn't really a UI-appropriate beastie I can add, so unless I want to insert a snake motif into the game just so I can have one in my UI, I'm out of luck. ....I'm really, really tempted.

Edit Again: Here's what I'm working on now:

Any terrible mistakes that need to be rectified before I clean it up?