Honestly so far the boomerang idea is the best so far. Maybe even look at something along the lines of an Aiselne, what Tira uses in Soul Caliber. I'd love to see more weapons like these. As element ideas.

Time and Space could be good first level weapons while an ion Aiselne (similar concept to a lightsaber) and an atom radiation version for the final.

That's my ideas. Either that or for the weapon you could keep running with the boomerang idea and place a handle in the centre of it to give it a mallee as well as a ranged fighting ability. (Can't remember what those weapons are called)

Hope this post helps.

@bob- well I guess if I'm doing something completely wrong, going back to step1 is probably the smartest idea. Don't know why I didn't think of that.

@Elk- Hmmm I'm not a fan of clean cut (dunno why but I like to see pixels in my pixel art. Beats me) but it is your present not mine, so will take that into consideration.

Started smoothing it off to it's raw original form. (yes I did start everything off with flat shapes, well except the hair and skin of the character)


Once I've smoothed it I will try altering the colour pallet. Also did some measuring and realised I have about a 9 degree angle for the roof ot a 15 degree, which will be contributing to the look of standing on a wall. Will add an extra 7-8pixels to it's depth and that should correct that issue. Probably still need to down-size my giant.
@Cak- Hmmmmm true I see what you mean. I was trying to go high saturation colours or elk as that was something put in his post. (saturated colours make me feel warm)

@Lizzrd- believe it or not I did use a few referances. I will see if I can hunt down the pages as I didn't keep the link just a picture in a separate layer. A few of which I had to use the screen-Print button to get illegitimate copies of. Don't worry I will delete said images off my PC when I'm done. Biggest issue I have is I'm a newbie and I did kind of rush it the entire time to get it done on time. I also can't imagine references at different angles and I culdn't find any decent side-view referances, so I kind of worked half of referance the other half on imagination.

Anyway got to go to bed. My girlfriend is picking on me cause it's 1am and I got to get up at 6.


PS I think I'm finally heading in the correct direction for the beak.

@Jeremy- No that is meant to be the roof/top.
I will do some research into copper,wood and brass then.
I might mess with the colour pallets a bit hen.

@Lizz- first issue I have with your edit is you've created a 45 degree angle, if you were to colour the roof the guy would look like he is leaning forward to quite a large degree. (Like Michael Jackson in smooth criminal)
The person's perspective is 15 degrees and that's also what I was trying to pull off for the train. I think the major issue is the proportion. My guy is a freaking giant on-top of the train and even though I was aiming to create a large guy but I think the size of his foot on top of the small roof distorts the view. I'm thinking I should re-make the guy a bit smaller, might help the overall image?

I thought I'd try adding the extra colour I had to alter the shading. A bit of a simple and lazy edit but I think it did a good enough job.



Which looks better, the right arm (our left) with or without the light forearm. The lightened forearm was a mates idea but I think it clashes with the light source. (note I would ad more transition to light if people thought it was more correct)

Ps I'm going to add the darkest shade for the entire underside of the jacket.


@ErakT- True I can create a leather sense by doing that however it wouldn't be the sort of leather I am aiming for. So do you think I should add more colours for less contrast into my pallet? Pallet choice is always an epic failure part for me.