Well, i am indeed aware of those changes you mention (eyes style and hair, mostly). They weren't actually intentional, merely a side-effect of my lack of mastering of The Gimp tools.

And now that you point it out, i remind i indeed used brushes rather than true pixel art .. probably that's why the character sometimes looks odd: i'm lacking a common style when drawing it ...
Thanks for your comment ... I'll try to redo it "the way of the pixel" when i'll have a bit more spare time, and will come back for more C&C.

PS: yes, i'm a linux guy who had no idea of what graphic gale was 2 weeks ago, and who still has no idea of what could be a good pixel editor in Linux.

What do you want to learn pixelart for? do you want to animate? make tiles? perhaps portraits?

To have sprites and blocks for my console games. mockups on my blog may give you a better idea of what kind of stuff i usually do. The character here was an attempt to break the typical 32x32 canvas i work with ... but tools weren't appropriated, obviously.

I'd like to improve my skills on larger area pixel-painting too, to be able to build good-looking backgrounds as well (the kind of thing in the thread "a mockup is growing / a boy is running"). I'm mostly a self-learner so far ...

maybe i'm wrong from the start, but the dark pixels you added near the eyes makes the character definitely a "she" imho.
I'd suggest you drop the black outline for any "internal" pixels (such as breast lines, chin, etc.) Rather pick so very-dark shade of what you're outlining.

Btw, i'm not too sure about his/her pose. legs seems to start a bit too late and the feet are ... weird.
Also, the eyes give the feeling that i'm facing him/her, like if (s)he was looking to the sky expecting some kind of advice from the gods rather than being involved in the action.

i'd say head = torso = legs is quite usual for cartoony character (it works well for the reference fox, for instance).
Still there's something odd in it. The neck and the head suggests somebody more muscular than the body you pictured.

Either "shrink" is head, or boost his shoulders ...

Considering the proportion you'd like, i would recommend megaman as a posing model for your future tests. Beyond that, thumbs up. That's nice pixeling ^_^

Uhm, I guess it all comes to the uses it will have.
If I were to pixel on the DS, I wouldn't really use if for making sprites, but more like a doodle pad where I could finish what I like etc.
But now, having something like Deluxe Paint on the DS would be neat.

hmm. i see. So you'd more feel the use for something like an electronic sketchbook that can sync easily with a full-blown PC picture editor of your choice (for new ideas & stuff, skipping the boring scanning phases)... And maybe coupled with a program more looking like SmooveDS where you could take what you were working on (on your PC) with you and show/edit it while you're in the train, or something alike, right?

Hey there. I'm the author of DSGameTools ...

Since apparently some of the people here are interested in pixeling on the DS, i'd like to ask whether you think 16x16 (or 32x32) editing would still be useful for you, or if "real" pixel artists would rather prefer unrestricted painting on a screenwide surface.