I was liking your run cycle, it had a lot of character and bounce. The sword swing is just so flat and generic though. Right now he is just swing in a straight line down, maybe try to add some left to right motion. So instead of up to down, it is more of his top left to his bottom right. That could be is standing attack, if the guy is running and attacking then he should do a lung or something different.

Also, I have no idea what your game play plans are. But since you already have the character in different amounts of armor you could get rid of the health bar and just have him loose armor each time he is hit. It is a bit of a rip from Ghosts n Goblins, but health bars are stupid.

Well I lost my streak, but I definitely feel that this exercise has made some minimal improvements at least. This is pretty close to be complete, I'm just not sure what to do with the background. I know this isn't a wip thread, but if anyone has feedback on how I could put the finishing touches on this I would appreciate it.

I have been experimenting with making isometric game maps for a tactical game in blender. Simple stuff in the realm of 3D, but good learning none the less.

Tomorrow I'm going to spend more time on a larger geometric face. The good news is that I did some freehand portraits and they turned out way better than my original post here, so at least I might be improving.

I was generally disappointed in my original sketch attempts, so I'm just working on drawing geometric portraits from references. So the following is just a rough reproduction. Enough of these though and hopefully I will have more confidence in tackling my self-portrait again. The final work will likely be simpler than these, in terms of number of planes, and I need a better photo for reference of myself.

@Milokey: It looks great, but I agree with your assessment that the doorway is too boring.
@LIJJ: I'm a big fan of pen, otherwise I over think what I'm working on instead of just doing it.