I'm working on a plot for a side scrolling rpg / manga. The theme is animal tribes (Think Laguz from FE) with DBZ fighting scenes lol (Without so much the ki blasts, just strong blows)

Here he is
Some of the Palette isn't mine

at first I thought "Hey, he looks fine" and dumped it in the portfolio, but now people are telling me "the face looks weird" or "I can't see the body" :/ How can I fix him up, so that he'd look... Less hated.

Also working on a portrait for him... Palette isn't mine as I was testing around trying to make it look as good as some other referencial stuff, but failed.

I didn't want to post the portrait... But there it is. Just to give you an idea of what his older self looks like (I'll be doing a shippuuden styled timeskip lol) I'm kind of stuck on it, don't know how to approach large pixelated hair/clothing... 

P.s I wanted to do a portrait of him in his younger ages but could not :/ I'm bad at it in free hand, and in pixeling I can't even do it right proportionally T.T

-Inspired by Bakumans Manga -Crow-

Oh thank you! I've "accidentally" done that, and ruined many pieces xD at least now I know how to manually do it  thank you. Hmmm... I guess all there is to fix is the dimensions on the footsteps... But like I said, I don't understand Elks post :/ I'm bad at reading comprehension...

Well, I've been using Paint since forever, but I use Graphics Gale for things like "Full desaturation" and what not, but I feel more comfortable on paint tbh :/

Thank you for the tip Tsukasa  I've been looking at the palettes people use on their pieces, in detail of course and no one uses a sat higher than 200 for each, as far as I've seen... I guess only if you're looking for a cartoony feel to it.

Edit: Is it me or is the new wooden flooring under the gate starting to look off dimensional a bit @.@ I tend to confuse myself alot with dimensions and what not :/

Oh! snap, forgot to post the references and what not up there...  The first isn't my Palette... I'm still incapable of creating my own, unfortunately... But I'm learning! Until two days ago I didn't know about saturation of colors =o everything had been done in bright in the past.

Oh you're right, the doors should be thicker...

Also, Yeah the wood colors differs and the roof tiles are different colors... I could just recycle the old Palette, but it wouldn't diverse much and it'd end up looking boring :/


Kay, so... I made the doors wider, gave it some "fortification" like ndchristie showed me, edited the planks a bit and I redid the small wood platform under it like I said I would, out of unsatisfaction. I guess It's starting to look much better, even tho It's still isnt... "Consistant" to the rest of my map :/

This is what I mean when I say It's inconsistent to the rest of the sprites... (Base excluded)