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This is rather nice, but there are a few things that could be improved.
To show some points I made a rather extensive edit.
You have 28 colours in this, I edited it down to 12. While this is excessive it shows that you by no means need 28 colours. Something like 16 would be fine and you would get more control.
The dither was a bit random in places and I removed all your dither and then in the end reintroduced some in places that I thought benefited from it. With dither you have to always think about what you wanna do with it. Do you wanna blend colours or create texture. Also it is important to not have too much single pixel noise.
That brings us to single pixel noise. With pixelart every pixel counts. If you have single pixels which jut out of an area it can look very odd unless you know exactly what you are doing and trying to achieve. Clarity is important, don't obfuscate your surfaces with needless single pixels. Think of your shapes as planes which are hit by light.
I also did rather extensive antialias which not only helps to make things look smoother, but it also increases the percieved resolution.
Some things I did not edit, like the front of the mouth, mainly because I have no clue what is going on there, so I left it instead of googling for a reference.
I hope this helps. If you have any specific questions to my edit, just ask.
EDIT: Hah, that reference would have helped me with editing this, if i had it earlier. If you do something from ref please always post it. It makes giving critique a lot easier.
« Last Edit: November 24, 2009, 04:34:17 am by ptoing »
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There are no ugly colours, only ugly combinations of colours.