There are no glaring faults. It tiles decently well. It looks more like thick moss than grass to me, though. It's because you have so many globular highlights everywhere, packed so closely together. It looks very springy and mushy and thick, which is kind of cool, but not especially grass like.

I'd say more, but then I'd be spending more time on my critique than you did making it, which doesn't seem fair to me. Perhaps you would have found a better solution by yourself if you spent more time than the average smoke break making it? =P

Looking forward to the next update, though. Cheers! =)

Thanks for the critique. I will adjust the first tile and make it look more like grass. And yeah haha, I can do tiles pretty fast, though I will be spending more than the average time to make sure they look the best as far as my skill go.

You need to thin out those blades of grass. It looks more like vines with leaves on them.

Will do. Gonna post it on the next update.

Hey everyone, it's been a while since I check out the community. I'm still a pixel artist haha, though I haven't done huge amounts of pixel art in the past months which have made me a victim of a certain common situation that I hope I learn more about it by sharing it with you all. Okay, you know how for example, you attempt to make a grass tile, and you fail and fail again... only then to find a tutorial about making grass tiles that you then read up and try again which ultimately allow you to get the grass tile done and past this obstacle... but then you have to make another grass tile and the same thing goes on, it just makes you question if there is something more than just studying tutorials that you need.

I have some art books that I'm down to studying to further my understanding of art, but my question is, is that what it's all about with pixel art? as someone who is still in that stage of say "learning the basic / intermediate / semi-advanced stuff"...? do I have to go read up a tutorial each and every single time I try something of new? (such as a grass tile which I consider mid level difficulty) Or can I just suck up a 300-400 page art book and bypass this practice? What do you do to get unstuck when stuck? and how did you learned to make all of these art assets, did you read art books? did you go to school? I have all these questions that I wanna know, to know if there is a better way of learning / practicing / studying than the way I do at this point, you know, to make things more effective in overall.

Thanks in advance.

Aside from the small mistakes made (most pointed out by the P.R.O.s here) this piece of work is amazing. Great work. I like the design style of this. Things should improve once you fix these small issues.

@ AnnIshman =
The reason why the palette is "that" way is because this image seems to be assembled together piece by piece of what it seems to be ripped content from various snes-like games.



The image is first set up as 24bit colors so when each piece is pasted it won't lose any color, and then once all the pieces have been mashed together, it is decreased to 256 colors, and ta-da! it can be thrown inside programs that only support 256 colors, like cm1999 or used in old game making programs like Rpgmaker 2003. The browns you see there are just simply generated automatically by the computer.

@ Seiseki =
Hey, what's going on in here man? why are you using ripped content and not making your own?

@ TripleM: I do put a lot of time, but been a little lazy lately cause of having other things to do haha. Anyways, thanks, and yes, these characters and the template is for a project I'm working on my own... now, question is if I will have enough time to get it done and released. 

@ Knighty: Thanks for noting that, fixed. Here is the result...



@ Everyone who reads this and can give input:

Worked some more on some of the characters, and need some help with this other character... mainly on the up direction animation.



Also, check the main post, as I updated it and put up all the directions for this same character. I also deleted the bad animations from the photobucket account, so you'll see some blank squares on the earlier posts.