well, I keep using the onion skin from graphicgale so I can keep a track of what exactly changed, then after that I just go on and on, test on normal speed, if I see something wrong I try to see what frame is the one with the problem and edit it, sometimes I just add a small number on the top right part of the frame so I can keep see the frame with the error easier, for animations and such, if they are tons of walking animations, lets say 10 human male same size animations I just make one and reuse it to save time and work on more important aspect, it really depends on what you are making in top down games they artist decided to add tons of frames to the walk animation of the hero since it is something you always see, while on the NPCs they just uses three frames  in which two are the same frame just flipped hah, if you are walking on plataformers well, you have to make all the animations look decent heh..

But in general I recommend you doing one base walking adn from that use it as reference on all the walking animations, same might work for the others like jumping attacking etc, either that or onion skin. Animation is a really long a tedious job, I am no expert at all so some of my advices might be noob-ish, but in all art related practice is a key, so keep trying and trying.

LarryPixel I wasn't trying to apologize ;P.


@Lizzrd: you mention giving critique yet your post didn't contained any crtitique. >_>.

@Lizzrd: you say that as if I was ignoring that, I think you forgot to read the whole post:

(sorry for being x2 but the original image was x2 so I decided to keep it, this will be the last being x2  I promess!)

@Senevr:  how how how D; tell me how to improve the palette! well, what I tried to do is keep  RYB colors for mid tones while keep background and dark tones as CYMK just as experimental purpose but now that you mention it I might have to change that. I will update once I have more time to work on it D;.

edit:
 here is the one at x1 :

I beleive the pose looks really static compared to Elks first one(theone you post) remember that drawing consist on different stuffs, the pose is an important part to consider it gives the drawing more dynamic, something that is worth the shot, currently yours looks nice, but the face looks way to big compared to the body, also the face looks darkened , add more light tones to it

Wierd we got like 300 guest viewing JunkBoy's art lol.