Folio: +Revisiting Old Work. [ C+C ]

[IGameArt]

Hey guys, been a member here for a while but figured I'd finally start a thread. I'm looking to improve my pixelling skills, and eventually my animation. I've been a pixel artist as a hobby for quite a while, and have produced art for a few small indie games, and some bigger-ish indie games. I'm looking to improve my portfolio so that I can hopefully get enough work in pixels to afford me going from full time to part time at my current day job.

Anyways, enough talk, here's my latest work. Each guy in this sheet is a really quick sketch, around 20-30 minutes of pixel tinkering each, no color palette to work from.

I know there are a few issues with the pose and hands on the Rogue Mouse (that's a knife in his hand), and I'd love to see how you guys might tackle something like that, or what I could do to make it feel a bit more robust?



And a caco: 

Some old work that I'm revisiting:


Current status (DB32 Palette):

[MysteryMeat]

If anything, I would have rolled with my mistake on the mouse and done up his poses to be referential to card illustrations.
The way he's holding the dirk puts me in mind of those, you know like the one with the king knifing himself in the head and such.

Without doing that, I'd probably turn his arm so he's holding it downwards in front of his chest, to give him that somewhat-predatory cultish look that's so hep with the kids these days

[IGameArt]

I decided to go for broke and changed weapons at the last second, I think this actually works out a little bit more in my favor.

[IGameArt]

I made another thing today. Inspired after beating Doom 2016, I decided to demake the cacodemon to match the colors of the original and at roughly the same size. This is a little bit smaller.

[zoekmath]

I made another thing today. Inspired after beating Doom 2016, I decided to demake the cacodemon to match the colors of the original and at roughly the same size. This is a little bit smaller.

It looks pretty good, but maybe you should change the blue gradient on the mouth to something maybe darker, without using that many colors.

[Oscar Blomqvist]

I made another thing today. Inspired after beating Doom 2016, I decided to demake the cacodemon to match the colors of the original and at roughly the same size. This is a little bit smaller.

It looks pretty good, but maybe you should change the blue gradient on the mouth to something maybe darker, without using that many colors.

It looks great, but I agree with zoekmath that the blue gradient in the mouth looks a bit off.

[heyguy]

Really good stuff! I agree with Oscar and zoe about the blue mouth. I think it might look better with a darker color inside the mouth.

[IGameArt]

Being a tremendous fan of Doom, removing the Cacodemon's mouth glow would be against my religion almost lol.

[eishiya]

Despite Doom having some not very good art, the original glow is more effective than yours because it looks like there is nasty veiny texture on its glowing insides, whereas yours suggests a very small, boring mouth. The shape of your gradient can be much more interesting and suggest a more menacing mouth form, even if you ignore the texture.

[IGameArt]

Improvements?


I'm keeping it symmetrical for now, but there's a chance If i do decide to animate that I'll make it more asymmetrical.

also, here's some old work that I'm revisiting:

Here's my current progress:

More progress: