Roman Man

[Mush]

Some sprites for a game. Any comments appreciated.

[Ovyx]

WOAH! Very dynamic walk cycle. 

Have you considered a more dramatic helmet concept? This one is a little bit too anti-climatic IMO.

[8bitbeard]

I really like where you are heading with this. The posture is really good, also the proportions work well (if you intend to make this a kinda bulky, brute guy)
However, I'd think about adding some white for the eye. Without the helmet the "blackness" works well, however with the helmet on your loosing a little bit too much of the facial features for my taste - I'd try to clean up the facial area a bit to make it more readable. Is that a mustache?

The right leg looks a bit weird. I think you are trying to have him look aggressive even in the standing stance, which works nicely, but I think if you could pull the right foot a bit to the right you could make him look much more "stable".

And I agree, while I like the Helmet I'd try how it looks like with one of these typical centurion mohawks on top

[bengo]

An edit I've made, I've tried to:

• Messed with skin tone; looks more like flesh less sickly
• Fix his back posture
• Make his standing position look more comfortable (instead of knees being bent; looks very awkward)
• Give more character to him (I tried to go what I think you wanted, I hope I've done fine)
• Give a more definite light source
• Fix a few anatomical errors to the best of my knowledge

Take what you will from this edit. I hope it helps you.

[8bitbeard]

nice improvements!
The ear is now really off. Way too far at the backside of his head and much too high.
I like the new right leg, this works much better now.
I personally think that you invest too much effort into the skin-shading without really having the basics of the shape finished, which might disctract you from what is important - but considering my minimalistic style, that might be just me 

Something I would try is to show the head not in perfect sideview but rotate it a litte so you can actually hint at his right eye. There is definately still something wrong with the face imho.

Keep up the work!

[bengo]

If it was my own piece, obviously I would have ensured more time on everything (especially taking more time on the shapes). I personally would alter his head to a 3/4 view... but I was trying to keep it similar to what he had. It looked like he had it at a profile, so I put it like that. I was mainly just trying to get a quick edit done in hopes of helping him. Not to say you shouldn't critique what I've done; the more accurate the information the better. I'm also just ensuring you know I'm not the OP. I'm sure you probably already knew this, but just in case you know?

[8bitbeard]

oh no, I totally did not see this 

[bengo]

  Don't worry everyone makes mistakes, especially me.

[Decroded]

I like the cartoony style of the original has a cool retro feel but his left leg is weird. Looks like he is about to take a step forward.

[Mush]

Thanks for the replies (everything's taken into consideration). Here's what I've been working on (it's a bg for the same game):



And an obligatory dodo: