Characters

[BoodyA]

Hello , I was making a few pixel characters of my IRL friends , and I was wondering if iam doing something wrong? I am not pleased with how they came out , I was heading for the bobble head look , I think I might of pillow shaded the faces? iam not sure please go ahead and edit if you'd like any help is greatly appreciated   (note those black things are skateboards Iam going to make different postures after correcting the shading etc )


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[Tourist]

Everyone is cross-eyed. 

Use the range of skin tone values that you have to suggest different eye shapes or expressions.  It only takes a few pixels at the corners of the eyes to do this.  Here are some examples:



Hope this helps,
Tourist