I'll post all the relevant images at the end for the sake of easy reading.

See, I wanted to make a boss sprite of a Digimon called IceDevimon in the style of Castlevania. The dimensions I gave myself was 58x58, so I had that to work with. I wanted him to be sitting in an Indian pose, but for the life of me, I couldn't figure out the correct pixel sequencing. I'm a horrible drawer, but I couldn't draw the pose, either. We're talking at the very least, 12 attempts at drawing it on paper, so I am trying to nail that down as well.

I tried to look for a visual reference and I thought of Dhalsim from Street Fighter, but he sits in a meditative pose, so it got me wondering, am I trying to make something that's not possible.

I'm not at all asking for someone to create this pose via pixel art. A simple "Yes it's possible, and here's why" explanation is good enough for me.

So, to further explain, here's some images:

Indian Pose:
https://image1.masterfile.com/getImage/695-03389491em-teen-girl-wearing.jpg

Pic of IceDevimon:
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/digimon/images/9/92/IceDevimon_t.gif/revision/latest?cb=20090205072332

In this pic of IceDevimon, he's bent on his knees, and I'm wondering if I should have gone with this pose for the legs:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-asG0bMIa_IA/UzpJGKY83lI/AAAAAAAACeA/_6hDlK6bnuM/s1600/10a.png

Dhalsim:


I flipped the right image cuz I wanted the sprite to be facing the left to begin with. I also basically wanted that exact perspective, but with the Indian pose, but IceDevimon's legs were so long that I couldn't figure out how to do it.
I wanted to make the sprite for the sake of the challenge, but I'm clearly not ready for it yet.

Pretty happy with this sprite. The outlining around the left arm makes that section look dodgy, but I think I did a good job.
I just wanna know if the sprite has good body alignments and whether you can tell what's what with the sprite.
Would you deem this 'usable' in a top down shooter game?

Hey. This is my second pixel art and it went terribly (LoL).
OK, so basically I wanted to redesign this Sonic The Hedgehog boss character as if Akira Toriyama drew it instead. After some time while drawing this, I realized this was a terrible idea, but I wanted to continue for the sake of experience.

My pixel art:




Pic I used for reference:
https://dragon-quest.org/images/2/21/DQII_Hunter_mech.png


I looked at a lot of images, so I did try. I had a really hard time forming the circular patterns and I refused to use the tools because I wanted to figure it out myself.

Once I realized how things were progressing, I decided to primarily focus on trying to create perspectives by using shading via the 'sunlight', which is supposed to be shinning above the character. I couldn't figure out a good color for Dr Eggman's head and I was getting very tired of this project, so I decided to focus on other parts. If it looks like I didn't know what angle to draw the character, you're right. I kept forgetting what it was, which is my own fault. I'll write it down in the future.

If it's hard to critique this kind of work, please tell me and I'll understand. But mostly I'm looking for critiques on shading and if I ended up making any jagged lines anywhere.

This design is missing arms, but I really want to move on to something else. I did the best I could with everything else.

Any advise or words  of wisdom will be copied into a Word document for reference

Oh, and I'll be doing simpler pixel art for a while now. I think I've learn't my lesson, LoL.

I'd like to know how to make 3D character models like the Donkey Kong Country series on the SNES, but I don't what's what. Basically, I tried to do research on this and all I could find is talk about pre-rendered 3D backgrounds, created on the Silicon Graphics Indigo 2, apparently the character models were made with this too.



Do I need to have knowledge in computer programming or complex maths to make 3D models? Is there a modern user-friendly (newb) free program available for me?

This is a new question about the art of Legend of Mana.



It was when I saw an image like this from Legend of Mana that made me develop an interest in how beautiful pixel art can look and can be considered a painting (in my eyes) and this is the level that I really want to reach (excluding the 3D modelling, that's for a different idea) because I love SNES graphics. My question for this is, was the pixel art created with the tools used to make a SNES titles like Secret of Mana, for example, or was other tools involved, like some level of 3D effects, such as lighting or texture? Would I be able to reach this level of talent using just Graphics Gale, basically?

Please ask me to better explain myself if this sounds confusing. It took me a while to figure out how to explain the first question, which is why I needed to do research so I could use some sort of terminology.

Thanks

Hi, my name's Michael.

I just signed up and tried to make a post to critique my pixel art attempt, but I can't find a way to upload the PNG file.

I looked at the 'Help' section and the closest I got was reading this:

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Do I have to wait 24 hours until I can post an image or something? I have no idea.