[C+C]Need the Roast for Improvement

[HDthunder]

So I've been trying to improve on my pixel art I think I'm getting better but I want more and more improvement
need a critique on this character I made. edit1: original dimensions 32x32

[ChillTaco]

Ive been doing a lot of s@#t posting here so I guess Im curently going around and helping people now. But my advice isnt very good, I dont explain well, dont take it to seriously.



I wont edit any of the shading but it may need some slight altering. The shape, specifcally the back is to deep for something of that size. Also its missing three important parts of the face.

[Runensucher]

This is a good start. She has a lot of character. I can imagine her doing some serious stuff. Like handling an alien invasion. She is tough.

Here is what you can improve:

Darker pixels tend to be less substantial then the brighter once. They vanish into the background. That's why you don't have to give her back a "round" shape. Just make it a straight line and the dark pixels will do their dirty job. (Like in Tacos edit.)
The same goes for her knees and the "hole" in her stomach.
Maybe you can improve the shape of the girl with that in mind.

I also think that are way to much colours for that small sprite, especially the greens.

Have fun!

[HDthunder]

I tried incorporating the changes you guys left me with some critiques from others and I don't know if I'm doing the color thing right.
Like picking my colors and seeing if they are correct and correspond and stuff.

[MysteryMeat]

I have to say they don't here, honestly! The color choices here make it look like a freeze-frame of someone getting caught in a camera flash, everything is washed out and noisy and the face simply looks unnaturally bright.
What are your intentions for this design, tell us a bit about the character? That will better inform any edits we might make!

[HDthunder]

my character is suppose to be an example for how I want character designs in this small game I'm trying to make with my Computer Science club at school. the theme is aliens attacking a medieval kingdom and I want to make a template for a character to base it off all the other human like characters in the game, but I'm not very good at this, like choosing colors or atleast putting them in the right place. I don't know the process for alot of this, I want to learn anatomy for human figures but Idk if the human figure can be conveyed in a size this small. Plus I want a character in a smallish dimension, Because the people in my club who want to do art are really complete beginners in art in general and pixel art makes not sense to them like look at what one of them made.

and then compare mine

I don't consider myself that good at this yet and I have a long way to go but there is a gap between skill level. I just want
to make a character template that is simple, in a 3/4ths perspective. I know this doesn't look very 3/4ths atm but I'll improve on that once I get some kind of look going. I don't know if I wrote to much but that is my speel. But atm no one knows what to do in terms of a character design because I'm the only one in the club who can do something like this. They ask but don't have much to show in terms of art. They don't even roast me when i post art they just say its "good" they don't have any premise for judging this type of stuff and know no means of the theories and practices in this medium. So I'm the one who may do doing most of the art or none of it because I have too much experience...

TL:DR - I want to create a simple character template so my club can work on, but they want different character designs but can't draw well or make pixel art and I might have to carry the load.
Note: we are high schoolers and all they do is waste time and aren't committed.

[MysteryMeat]

It's fair to want a good template (you are fairly close to that) but colors are integral to pixel art. Everything from limited palletes to more technical concepts like subpixeling involve heft understanding of color.

Anatomically though, I'm goimg to say she's bent too far to the side. Try looking at what other artists do, the 3/4ths angle is quite common in platformers so there's a glut of good sprites to study! I take inspiration from starbound quite often, for example!

[HDthunder]

thank you all for the feedback going to improve on it more and look over fundamentals, thank you all again for the feedback.