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my suggestion then is to reduce the contrast between mid tone and highlight. that will help reduce the glossy effect
is the hood and vest ment to be glossy? cause right now they look a bit glossy and noisy
Well, you certainly captured the attitude well there, and the hood is a definite improvement.
You do have some problematic pixel clusters there. Helm and others discuss what kind of clusters are problematic over here, but to be specific:
* You have a number of pixels that are stranded (ie. there are no adjacent pixels of the same color). This generally comes across as visual noise.
* You have L-shaped clusters in your outline. L-shaped clusters are usually best avoided except on mechanical objects that you want to look angular -- they add 'chunkiness' to the area.
BTW, the transparency on your version is kind of messed up -- you seem to have a number of pixels with low opacity. These show up on the shoulder and the top of the hood. You also have some extra colors: there are 2 bright skin shades, 3 'mid' skin shades, and 2 'dark' skin shades (so you're using 7 colors even though it only looks like 3)
O! I tried and I tried, and I found one ^u^ (you know... for the sake of tearing things apart)
The hoodie looks like it's tucked into the waistline... where most people i know wear the hoodie over their pants. *shrugs* So there's that?
What you say it's true. I just think he looks more badass and muscular this way. 
He looks a lot better in the edit. I'm trying to find anything else to call you out on, but It's great ^u^
I agree the last sprite looks better. If you think there is anything else to change at the sprite, not just the hood, go ahead
I actually like the use of dithering in this. It gives off a sort of retro gaming feel and (for whatever reason) I'm learning to like that
I also want to say THANK YOU for showing the steps in a gif. You just helped me learn a bit more about how to make rocky textures (which I really need to work on)
I think the only thing I would really like to see different is a slightly earthier tone to the dirt. I took out 15 points of green value in each of the earth tones, and I think the slightly redder version helps it look more appealing. My guess is because the redder tone contrasts better with the green grass. Just a thought.
As i said before i have hard times picking colors.
Overall I suggest to work on lightsource direction. The grass is lit mostly as if the light is on the left, but the stones are lit as if the light is on the right. The light -color- is pretty good -- it has that in-bright-sunshine look working for it.
I always think of dithering as a type of airbrushing. I definitely don't want to airbrush everything, it can look pretty unnatural. And when I do dither, it's one of the last steps I take, after I'm sure that I have the basic picture working well, to add the impression of additional shades where I feel they're needed.
Don't worry about the no feedback thing.
There's 3 reasons I sometimes don't reply in a thread.
1- the work is too good and I have nothing to add
2- the work is so bad that I can't understand who to fix it
3- the suggestions I have are not immediate making it frustrating for the person to read
in your case is number 3. My only suggestion is to look a bit more into anatomy and how you can stylize it to fit a character like this. But its not something you can just do over lunch break. Anatomy takes time to understand and apply effectively. So don't be demotivated by the lack of replies. It doesn't mean people don't care. they might just not have the right thing to say to help.
Haha it's ok though!
