My first completed model!  Yay!  1724 polys.



and a drawing of a friend.  I made her look old and ugly and pissed. 

The rifles were done after watching this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7ZgQw2N_pY

The full video is here:
http://store.payloadz.com/details/101559-Video-Educational-Coro-Gun-Demo-Parts-1-2.html
its $23 to download.

I've seen people do it for characters and creatures as well.  Its a technique I haven't experimented with much.  I usually come up with designs by scribbling randomly and making sense of the mess.

Yeah I know my website is bare.  Sigh.  I'm a little too critical of what I put up there.   

more sketches of some of the animals that live in my house.  Cats move a lot more than dogs.     Something about their form is hard for me to feel as well.  They're nebulous poofballs.

my dog, Kodie.  German Shepherd/Malamute mix.

I don't think you have to go as extreme to give the impression that the walls are white.

I also prefer your roof variants that aren't as high contrast.  The harsh shadow/light division looks a little weird to me.  In your examples I prefer the top right, and bottom two roofs.  Maybe I'm just being finicky.  But hey, pixel art is finicky.

I agree that the last portrait clashes with the game.  Your pixel art has a cutesy look to it that the portrait doesn't have at all.  Simplifying it may be the key... but I think many of us are so used to seeing Japanese style portraits to go along with Japanese style pixel art.  We see chibi heads with large eyes on the sprites and assume the portraits will be the same.  Finding a balance could be tricky.

Love the house by the way.