Welcome to the forum Bohne, your lurking obviously paid off as these are both wonderfull first entries.

Crits and suggestions:
- Walking: The black inner lining of the top of the hat doesn't work. Depending on what style you're goning for iether replace it with a highlight or get rid of it all together and increase contrast between top and base. Some of the features don't read too well. Beard is hardly visible and shirt/pants blend a bit. I suggest bigger contrast or some kind of lining. There's a lot of pixels jump around, but it might be your animation program fucking it up?

Treechopping: I can't say i've done a lot of woodchopping myself, but i'd imagine your feet don't move at all? It looks kinda jumpy as it is, but fixing legs might help alot, so i refrain from commenting further on the anim. The detail on the tree looks rather copy-pasted, i suggest you mix it up a bit.

/vedsten

Quote from: Kazuya Mochu on February 03, 2008, 02:10:07 pm

my advice would be to go back to pencil and paper and try out following some templates.

pixels are my pencils and paper.  I don't practise any other art forms (except the odd doodle in my maths books) so what would be the point in trying to draw a face with a pencil.  I'd make all the same mistakes i have when i pixel.

Well, paper is just quicker. You could've made like 10 sketches playing around with different approaches in the same time you've pixeled this. Not that I'm to talk, since i tend to do the same thing, still i wish i could pull my self together to do more pencil stuff tho.

Anyhow, I think the new draft is way better than the old ones, seems like a good idea to start over. Minor crit - The distance between nose and mouth is still to great i think.

hmm.. been looking at for a while, initially i didn't care for it, but on second thought I think i like the idea. Still kinda ambivalent about it though, since ii don't like is the fact that it adds a lot of colors to bg. that imo looks "busy" enough as it is. Water tiles are a bitch, but i think you did a good job. I minor crit - i think there's too big a difference in alphavalues, some parts you can barely see through while others are fairly opaque. I suggest you bring em a bit closer together, dunno, mayby it's just me.
Anyhow, thanks for keeping this post flooded with top pixel art, it's a goldmine 

Thanks for the critique

How is this:



Tried addressing issues on nose, eyes and lightning. Played around with the colors too, but not sure if it's an improvement.