I'll Hang You Good! (wip)

[Indigo]

sorry guys - long time no see.  Sadly i was grounded for a while, but I intend to be a LOT more active now.  Since i was a bit out of practice, I decided to do a pretty simple fighter sprite.  My main points of focus were color selection (without using PS to alter them afterwards), and character design.  I'm really sluggish at making an original concept - thus, the Hang-Man was born.....still kinda crummy of a concept though.  Oh well.



C+C on anything, but I really am looking forwards to advise on colors or character design.

[Acke]

Nice pose and shading but designwise hes like... uhm. The Hulk with a bit of Terry from KOF.

[Razz]

Haha, that's awesome. I really like the shading.
Maybe you could give him a grungy wifebeater with pit stains.

[David]

Maybe he should be dressed like a cowboy, considering the name.

[Razz]

He already is. he's a modern day cowboy. Heh.

[Psychotic_Carp]

Simple? I hate you....

I think he would look better with shoes

[ptoing]

I like him, looks ready to kick ass

I made a lil edit colourwise and brought it down to 16 colours including transparency.



the ramps could be way more efficient. i made the darkest green and blue 1 colour also the orange on the buckle is now in the rope as well and slighly altered.
I also made the ramps less monohue to add depth and added small highlights using the yellow of the buckle a bit. also the greys and the belt colours basically all were wasted on your version. the belt colour was merged with the outline wich is now a dark greyish blue. As for the greys on the hat, in most cases pure greys look a bit mank because in real life they basically don't exist as that due to coloured light, so in this case sharing the blues seemed logical.

hope this helped.

cheers

[Helm]

just had to do it

[Scuba Steve]

Hang you well.

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I like the green specs added in Helm and ptoing's edits.It might not fit with your style of shading, but I think it gives much more volume to the pec area, which seems kinda flat in your original. I think Helm's edit on the lower arm to our left works much better than your arm which looks cylindrical by comparison.