My Game-Graphics for a 'Lost-Vikings'-Clone

[Seele07]

hey ho yosh64,

that looks good Thank you for doing this edited version 
yes, the metal-thing on his body should be a chain or something like that. but i, for myself, are unsure too - just looked at the original and started to draw a version in my own style.

btw. the graphics are licensed under this license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ , so, if you want to edit or share them, please read the license first, thank you.

Greetings,
Ingo

[Faktablad]

Hmm...is he supposed to have circles for his face and hands?  It looks like you just went "OK, I need a beard, so I'll do a yellow blob!  I need a head, so I'll use the circle tool!" You need to think about what a face actually looks like, how a beard grows off of the face, how hands attach to arms and how arms attach to the body, etc.

[ilkke]

Circles are OK if the sprites are tiny, but these are not tiny, they're huge! You really might want to go into a little bit more detail with hands. If it's too troublesome then better leave it with circles than have crappy hands, tho
As for the whole dither issue, I really recommend adding more shades. 256 colors is A LOT, and you will need several blues, greens, browns, grays, fleshtones etc.

[Seele07]

if i have finished the house for Pixelplaza, i'll try to fix all the problems dicussed here (if i can do so)
maybe it's okay to show some of my pen-and-paper-drawings in the offtopic-section, so you can see a better overview about my general drawing-skill? 

Thank you for your C&C 

i'll try harder to pixel the new viking. My problem is, that i am most of the time powerless and so can't sit on one image for a longer time 
maybe i need to walk a bit after lunch, because i think it's the lunch that makes me powerless.

Greetings,
Ingo

[CrazyMLC]

try listening to music while you sprite if you feel like stopping or something. it helps a lot actually.
if you sprite in a populated area, on a laptop, or at work, then use headphones

[ilkke]

Maybe you just overeat or eat too fast?

[Seele07]

@CrazyMLC: i listen most of the time to music, if i'm at the Computer.

Maybe you just overeat or eat too fast?

Yeh, in the last weeks i eat relatively much of food  but i'll a small person. I heard about my medication, that it quickens the appetite  that's the reason, i guess.

[ilkke]

Try to eat several times a day, but eat less each time.

[bengo]

Sloppy edit, I like how you break things up into simple shapes but they're not THAT simple. A hand for instance, isn't a giant ball but a complex structure filled with many ovals, rectangles, etc.
Also work on those colors, they're too uh, saturated.

[JJ Naas]

Also work on those colors, they're too uh, saturated.

I agree the pants at least could be less saturated, but high saturation on the other hand is the Lost Vikings style.