La Primera Espada- Bleach Spoiler

[Opacus]

Here he is, revealed the number one Espada in Aizen's army:

Stark
I just had to make a pixel art of him.
Here's my references:
http://nekodan.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/bleach-manga-339-primera-espada/
http://meroko.freeblog.hu/files/stark.jpg

15 colours right now, don't plan on using more then 16.
I'm going for a painting-like look.
Critique very welcome.

[Opacus]

Thanks
I think it's pretty much finished?

[Ryumaru]

Why make his face so smooth? He looks like a manly man to me, which means a lot less baby but gradual shading and much more angular face planes. Good otherwise.

[Terley]

Colours look a bit washed too me, a quick go at changing the palette, I got rid of 2 colours too seemed a bit unecissery. 

Don't think you're done yet, make full use of your palette, atm some places are lacking that level of AAing because you're forgetting some colours you've used elsewhere. Did some quick alterations to places that stood out to me.



Don't know if it's too contrasting in your opinion but the lightest shade is pretty much white, and I don't feel your colours are giving it enough shape.

[Batzy]

This is a good piece of art 
but there are some contrast issues i made a quick edit

[Ryumaru]

Yeah the contrast could definitely be upped a bit. I think you should try and see if Tite Kubo has any marker renderings of this dude, that would give you a much better reference than these black and white's. Heres a quick edit of what I was saying:

[Jad]

I'm with ryumaru's edit! More definition on the nose, with the more realistic shading you've got going on the anime-small nose totally takes away from his steamy manly beauty appearance.

With so many different shading hues, be extra careful with the shape of every shading "blotch" and their relationship to each other.

Oh, and I'm digging it (: Should get around to reading some more bleach, seems like a good shounen manga to keep track of when you like SWORDS and OVER NINE THOUSAND power-level plotlines (which I do, it's like candy; not a lot of substance but oh so good.)

[Opacus]

Damn Jad, you have never made a single post that didn't make me atleast giggle.
I'm not to sure about the whole manly rough thing, but on the other hand I did make the shading realistic.
It's hard
Thanks for the edits and crits. Atleast I did up the contrast and make his nose a bit bigger (I'll define it more tomorrow, for now I must sleep)


There are some coloured pictures of him, but non of them have more distinctive facial features then my picture does.
I don't really think he is intended to have a very manly face, mainly because he's really lazy.

[Reo]

I like the newest version, but the eyebrows seem a bit wonky
other then that,as a bleachfan i love this

[Ryumaru]

Damn Jad, you have never made a single post that didn't make me atleast giggle.
I'm not to sure about the whole manly rough thing, but on the other hand I did make the shading realistic.
It's hard
Thanks for the edits and crits. Atleast I did up the contrast and make his nose a bit bigger (I'll define it more tomorrow, for now I must sleep)


There are some coloured pictures of him, but non of them have more distinctive facial features then my picture does.
I don't really think he is intended to have a very manly face, mainly because he's really lazy.

Since when did manly and lazy NOT equate? :3