Here is an update:



- Attempting to fix posing/anatomy
- Fix up the shading in spots
- More expressive face

Thoughts?

Hey, it's been a few years since I've been on Pixelation, but I figure this is kinda fun. Count me in! My expectations are pretty relaxed, after all, this is an activity for fun, and I assume people have other things going on. As long as you have fun, and feel like you're challenging yourself somehow, I think that's pretty cool. Even if not, I guess. I also hope that nobody is too critical of whatever I make for them, but I'll do my best.

Here are some ideas!

Likes: people with nifty outfits that have lots of accessories, colorful pastel palettes, watercolor paintings, asymmetry, dynamic poses, explosions, cute things, cats, frogs, ducks, Kirby, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, squids, bees, bats, trains, boats, weird monsters, hearts, stars, grassy terrain, vibrant teal/purple/orange/pink/yellowy-green hues

If I had more time I definitely would have fixed a few things and added some more detail, but I think what I managed there works.

Wow, that's a definite improvement. Though, I still have a few crits.

The tree looks very flat, and the way you've colored it, it looks like the leaves for the tree are BEHIND the branch layer. Rather than, having the branches blend into the tree. I think part of this is due to your contrasting color selection on the branches vs leaves. And another part is that the "sphere" of leaves you have doesn't really  seem to accurately look like there's branches under it. You might need both brighter and darker colors on the leaves to bring out volume.

Your other parts, like the grass and dirt are good. But you have this weird, mix saturated with unsaturated colors thing going on. Since the color ramps are jumpy between different saturations, instead of being smoother, you can notice banding and weird patterns popping out more than others in the rocks and such.

The grass needs some highlights, and I don't think it should have a shadow at the top. That shadow especially doesn't work, because it goes too dark and it has weird grey buffer shades.

Anyway, I think you can fix this up and create something truly stellar.

Hey Lendrick! Nice start on these tiles. Your dirt looks excellent.

But hmm, the grass seems too noisy. If anything, I'd have bigger strands. Get a few, well-defined blades, and draw over them. The less noise, the easier it is for it to be read, and the nicer it is for you to tile it. Your dirt doesn't look near as noisy, on the other hand, which is good.

Also, the transitions at the edge of the grass look like they need a lot more attention. Your bottom shadows on the grass transition are too small.

The strands at the "top" of your grass have blades which don't really make sense. There's only highlights at the top of the blade, and it makes it look like the grass doesn't actually poke out, because there's not enough elevation.

The colors for the grass pretty much work, I'd probably use another highlight color on that.

Also the plant on the grass seems really out of place. Now it's TOO saturated, whereas before it wasn't contrasting enough.  I would draw the plant as a separate image before trying to merge it entirely with the grass, but keep its surroundings' palette in mind.

So yeah, the grass as it is needs a lot of reworking, sadly. It might be easier to start over than to clean up all the noise. I don't know.

Keep at it though!