Imagine what happens when someone falls or jumps down from a height. The hair stands and falls down with a delay as you land. Running like your character does creates a less extreme effect like that. You've recreated it fairly well on the back, but the front bangs should perhaps behave a bit like flapping wings. The top of the hair on the other hand probably shouldn't bounce like it does now at all.

In one frame the outline is two pixels wide on the back, it stands out too much and creates a blinking effect. As for the anti-aliasing on the top of the head, it should look better if you reduce the double pixel ones to just one as well.

Thanks eishiya, those are some really good points!

I've tried to improve on everything you both mentioned, except I'm staying with the bare wood. I'm not sure how successful it was but it's better I believe.



Actually I did extensive research before starting on this one, with Stockholm as my reference (that's where we're based). I'm going for a 17th century look and it wasn't until the next century that common people added (still wooden) paneling or painted the houses in a kind of red paint as in the example I linked to (17th century updated with 18th century windows and paint). Even then that wasn't necessarily the case and even the less wealthy within the nobility went for wooden buildings, but picked those practices up a little sooner. And typically only brick buildings were plastered in this part of the country.

Turd roofing is really good

I'm... not convinced.


(Sorry I had to!)

It looks as if the guy is standing below ground. Either that or he's really short. You should probably add another tile to the height of the building.

Are those roots at the bottom? Some parts are disconnected and that doesn't look good. I'd experiment with another color as well.

Otherwise I really agree with the post above mine.

Hi!

I'm looking for general critique on this piece intended for an RPG. No need to surgarcoat anything.


The most challenging part was the turf roof. Tall grass sure is much harder to achieve than shorter types.

Until later stages I was also working on an oblique version simultaneously but I scrpped it since I want to create entire city blocks of these and other buildings and want to be able to access the inner court.

Sure, I'll play around a bit. Like the others, these are characters with backgrounds and personalities which is what I based the current looks on. The one to the right looks most interesting in that regard.

Also a few words on how they are going to be used. They aren't meant to be displayed next to each other or anything like that, so it isn't that important that they share all of these features. The characters are already pictured in different sizes and so on anyway. They aren't even in the same "dimension" as a matter of fact, well you probably guessed so already.
Also, the carriage lacks horses, which is a message I want to deliver in this piece (I know his head was covering that part, but as I said I was planning to widen these later on and then move it to the left).

Edit: I liked that mustache so I made a very similar one. I'll see if I can tweak his face some, but I tried tons of looks when I got started, and ended up with this (though he changed further along the way). So this already seems to be what I want. But I will experiment some more and see what happens.



Edit 2: Some work with the background. I messed up the perspective by turning the sky into a lake. I'll fix that.