Plenty of games where the HUD isn't at the top or it's spread over the screen. If the readability changes it's because of habit. And no it's not called "Head up display" because it's over your head, it's named after the HUDs in Jets. Where you have a transparent board of information right in front of you face so you don't have to look down at the instruments to see important information. "up" is implied therefore, as to not look down.



following the proper idea of a HUD would be something like this then:


If you look in the middle of the playing area and then look top and back, then bottom and back it will take you just the same amount of time to do it. And to be honest it doesn't bother me at all the HUD being down there, Kasumi probably just ment that it usually is top and have been in NES games, but it most definitely have some other reason, probably where it "collides" with less things.

Anyhow, Very nice job!

Well no, there are plenty of ways to make a sword slash animation since there are no rule saying there is a certain way to slash a sword in a digital world. However since there were plenty of people reacting on it looking almost exactly the same does say something. I'm not calling plagiarism, I'm just against taking shortcuts to make something look good without actually learning something, like someone mentioned earlier. There is a big step without any really explanation between the first version and the second, upping the quality of the animation several dots.

and coming out with a version inspired by your own imagination and with your own style on it will probably make you a better artist. Why is that not sought for?

Hi Gamer

It's a common misstake to hasten yourself into details. Trying out different shading and so is OK, but try to get a whole shape together first and then go into detail.
One thing that helped me when learning to draw faces(digital) was simply just to draw onto the picture.
When I started doing oil on canvas and wanted to study a special technique I printed a copy of a painting and started to paint over it, mimicing what the artist had done.
The same thing can be done here.

Made an example of it(mainly on the left side, left the right side alone(also made it a bit smaller to not have too big areas to work with when you are not entierly familiar):



Simply use the colour from the picture and try to get a shape going.

You can also use a program to reduce the amount of colours in an image to more easily see shapes, shadows, lights etc.:


Try to study the face more profound then you will discover things like your left eye actually looks blue in this light your right eye looks green. If you can pick elements like that out you will
get a much more coherent and lifelike portrait.

So conclusion, it's really about the details on a person that makes it look like that person, it can be a mole, a wrinkle or w/e. But you have to focus on getting a solid ground to stand on just before you go into it =)


good luck

/coffee

I don't think It's a matter of the character being more simple than the tile. I believe it's the different kind of palette style you've chosen for him. I would probably drop the outline on the character completely since everything else don't have it, like mentioned before. I also made it a bit bigger cos the extremely small version makes you have to squeeze things together so hard it might miss the actual style you are looking to have overall, or at least ended up with on the tiles. I also wouldn't change the tileset to match the character. Your tileset has a lot more effort and thought behind it than your character have atm.




Also try not to post these huge upscaled images (Now I did since it already was there). It's handy for people that want to help you by doing edits.