Here goes a portrait

[Vinik]

First of all, sorry for not updating on the slime thread, and thanks for all the input, I had to study some very-not-art things and lost focus on it, but I will surely post more on that and some more minions when I get to small scale stuff soon. But I got this one in the mean time:

Here I am trying to go back to larger stuff, and applying what little knowledge I got from traditional media painting on pixels. Turns out they are some little disobedient things. Hair is atrocious,  I have no idea how tapered curved shapes should end on the thin parts, often ending in L shaped clusters or single pixels on diagonals. The beard is a cheat to hide that chin lines end up always being diagonal lines with banded shading, as it seems I cannot visualize them differently on the pixel grid (look at my avatar, busted). I am not sure if this kind of exercise will help anything with drawing cutesy small scale game assets as it is my current need, but I just needed to get this one out.

[MysteryMeat]

he kinda looks like one of those edits where people make the facial features all tiny

which is a roundabout way of saying his eyes are a bit too low and his mouth doesn't protrude enough. I'd also try to play with the cheekbones some, they tend to bulge out a bit at that angle

[Vinik]

Thanks for the pointers Meat, this is actually an earlier and less polished "fork" of the portrait with larger and higher eyes, also showing the jaw-line problems, but it so different that he became another person:

Interesting how face proportions are more distinctive from one face to another than the shape of the features. This guy has a way more brutish appearance, but are the proportions and volumes any better compared to the other one?

[MysteryMeat]

yes, much. I recommend pasting the beard over this frame if possible

[Vinik]

Sorry for the late reply, had to drive a lot today:

He looks like Sun Wukong now,   

[MysteryMeat]

hey nothing wrong with that, monkey king is great for theming. Look how far it carried dragonball!