Take off that suit! XD I know you guys give ACTUAL GOOD critique, which is why I wanted to post here. I want to improve, but not lose my own voice, if that makes sense? I'm going to try and give a little more background and I'm not trying to be defensive, but if that happens anyway you can tell me. AND I will try to lose some of the emoticons, since I most likely overuse them.

So first, I will not deny that 95% of the art I do is for furries (they hire me, I get to make enough money to live, you know how it goes!), so I'm used to drawing furries. There's lots of shortcuts that make the typical furry fan happy in regards to anatomy and action (Tails must always be showing! ALWAYS), and since they still are my bread and butter, I might have to stick with a few of those shortcuts for now.

I'm going to link some of my other stuff (Some is furry but commissions, some is my own exploration, some is human faced etc) just to show what else I do:

This was a 30 min piece, so attention to the man face was all I worried about:
http://d.facdn.net/art/sigil/1310180397.sigil_streamsketch_-_harashi.png

Another 30 minute one:
http://d.facdn.net/art/sigil/1310188675.sigil_streamsketch_-_ixor.png

Scary monster lady:
http://d.facdn.net/art/sigil/1264752727.sigil_dreammonster2.png

Faun/satyr/humanface girl:
http://d.facdn.net/art/sigil/1271401349.sigil_genpic.png

Cover of a folio that was all monsters/mythical species
http://d.facdn.net/art/sigil/1285883151.sigil_frontpageresized.png

Gestural low-color fairy:
http://d.facdn.net/art/sigil/1297232932.sigil_stickfairy.png

Hate the picture, like my attempt at lighting:
http://d.facdn.net/art/sigil/1302656032.sigil_bormacdndresizedwatermarked.png

I know those things are off topic, but they're what I have the most experience with, so hopefully they should I have slightly more anatomical prowess than my pixel stuff shows? I started off on Elfwood in 98 with a lot of anime fantasy stuff. I didn't get into furry until 3 years or so ago with world of warcraft, realized I could do it as my full time job, etc etc. I was an art major in 2003-2005, but haven't taken a class since, just been playing around with my toolchest from there.

Thank you very much for linking that tutorial! The one I (lightly) followed was: http://www.derekyu.com/?page_id=219  by Derek Yu. It was nice as an overview, but didn't go into nearly as much of the detail as that new one!

I'll be taking a color theory class in the fall, which I'm very excited about. I've always been pretty afraid to use hue-shifting to get my desired effect, and pretty much wimp out and use a desaturated pale red, blue or purple for my shading/lighting. Using high contrast is something I'm a big wimp about as well, though I did try to have two shadows and a highlight in my icon. Were they just not extreme enough, or were they too pillowy?

I'll be addressing the "one part moving at a time" issue in my next set of experiments, I want to make a matching icon for my fella.

A quick note on the "candy-coat of character and personality". I have no idea how to alter that for what I'm going for...or even how to do that on humans or what not. When I think of something like Disney, I think of over-exaggeration of features, voices and stereotypes (glasses on the smart girl, a bare chest on the strong man), which I am not quite sure how to do in a like..10x10 area. In the furry circles, it's all about how the characters LOOK, not how they act or express themselves...so I suppose I'm just playing towards my audience there.

And yeah about the pink - She started out brown, but that demeanor was too much like me IRL, I had to jazz it up to make a character that was more fun to draw. I do have less eye searing ideas, however.

I have a quick question, if that's okay. I have no idea how to even set up a decent color palate. Is that just something you figure out, or is there a good way to figure that out for pixels? I saw some on the tutorial you linked, but it was still not making much sense to me.

And feel free to write me an essay any day. I would rather someone tear into me about something concrete than asspatt me all day (I really get that enough, I promise.)

The "statue Boy" is EyeCraft's avatar. It's just meant to point out the edit he provided.

Yikes my bad! I see it now, sorry

It might be good to have him "sit" a little as he casts, so there's some vertical motion as well as the side to side.

Hi guys! I'm working on my first animations and getting more comfortable with the pixel format. Here's a few things I've done which I'd love some critique on, but it's no big, especially the stuff that's over a year old I know is outdated X3


I made this icon for myself to test a few things. I'm limited to a 100x100, but as far as I can tell, no color limitations as of yet. The tail animation went better than I thought it was going to, but it could still use some work hardcore.

And the older stuff:
- my fave from this set

- my fave from this set

[WIP]'s Below:

Working on an icon in the same style as my first, trying to tackle full body animation more in this.


Preliminary sketch for the icon, it had a few animation layers, but I didn't end up really using them


First pixels from the sketch


Cleaned up lines


Animation test. The tail and breath aren't entirely smooth, but I do really like the snort.