55!

37! DONE

Mostly because I really want to have a tile next to Arachne's!

Actually it looks like the stray spots of dithering are a .gif saving artifact.  Are you using MSPaint or something by any chance, xdjkittiex? (is there a better way to say that?)



Anyway, I just wanted to demonstrate something here without altering the palette much.  Your shading seems a bit like you're trying to shade from the outlines and provide a little definition, but I don't think you're really considering the volumes!  So I did a rough paintover here just to show what I mean.  Having a light source should mean some areas are generally darker than others, not all within the same few values, if that makes sense.

I'm sure we understand the idea of needing a naked template character for layering items on and we understand the chibi thing, the reasons to draw a bigger than natural head is straightforward enough, but what's confusing is why the detailed musculature on a character which already demands to be symbolic; we're not literally suggesting a world of people with huge heads (unless the game is Hydrocephalic World: Online) so why be so literal rendering the body?

Plus drawing muscles shows everyone how much you own at drawing.

I think that's probably the gist of it.  Sometimes we pixel artists just don't know when to stop

I agree with Helm about the 4th one there, Atnas, it's quite nice.

My attempt, for this thread:

But he's neither muscly nor babyish enough I think.

I wonder how many pixel artists have an "rpg doll" as their first real attempt at pixel art?  I think that was the case for me.

Hm, noted, except I'm not sure about my fix...

Here eyes should be more even now as well?