I decided to give a shot at sprite creation meself since I've failed to get any help with this thread so far. Keep in mind this is my first attempt at sprite creation, so be gentle.



The perspective is somewhat weird, I know, but it's meant to be that way since it's inspired by the classic Bitmap Bros look on games like Chaos Engine and Speedball, so it's actually meant to be used as a game sprite on a similar perspective. However I've been having a problem so far. The helmet. I've been using a placeholder head while I created the rest of the body, so I had no idea  it would be so hard. While there are plenty of references I just can't seem to be able to create the intricate shapes of the terminator helmet with so few pixels and make it look like the real thing. Could you guys help me? Also any other feedback/critics would be useful aswell, just keep in mind that aside of the helmet there's some stuff left that's quite unpolished right now, namely the gun and the pauldrons.

I actually liked the blue lighting. It reminded me a lot of this particular scene from Loom, an old graphic adventure by lucasarts:



So yeah, a bit more detail on the tree trunk, but the keep the blue light, if you're planning to include it on a nightime scene. Gives it a nice mysterious look.