Character Art

[official-neosoft]

I'm creating a character again, and this time I'm going for a male.

This is what I've got so far:


It's not much, but it's a start. Should I change the hair? I want a cool look, like "Prince Of Persia"...
And at his arm it looks like a boob, but it's something from the "coat" or something he's wearing 

Oh and it may look like a strange pose, but he'll wear 2 swords:
-one behind his neck
-one under his arm, he's leaning on it

Any crits? Or should I just go on?

[bonehead11]

I really like the hair...okay lets get down to critique...

Anatomy is totally awkward, his legs are too short, his body too long, arms are too long wrongly connected to joints...but if its meant as cartoonish than it looks kinda good, but that anatomy is bad even for cartoon...here is a short sketch of how it should look like...well...should...
It will turn up really good just keep working on it 

[official-neosoft]

Yes some other guys told me about the anatomy, I always do wrong in lenght...
I'll fix it and then post it again..

One question: Does the character looks a little "gay" ?

[thedaemon]

It look rather androgynous like most Japanese characters. Until the face detail is in I won't really be able to know. But it's not flaming gay or anything.

[bonehead11]

Well...that arm makes him look a little gay...try to make him more leaned and angry looking so he will look more cool, or more actiony pose. But this is just mine suggestion, otherwise I kinda like that pose...only for that arm, if it would be posed in a wrist maybe it would look more normal.

[official-neosoft]

Ok, some guy told me the blue thing looked gay on him, but I changed it anyways.

[Mathias]

Is there a reason this is so huge?

[official-neosoft]

It's for practice.. Also, I'll maybe make a game hero out of it, and this could be used as art or something in the game

[Mathias]

What are you practicing?

[official-neosoft]

Just some details, anatomy, shading reasonably(no pillow-shading), and some other stuff what will turn a basic pixelartist into a better one.

UPDATE:


Changed the anatomy, made the hand look like a fist, other hand is more diagonal, he has a belt, changed the blue thingy.. Also added two swords. How can I make it look he's more leaning on the one?
Is this fine so I can go shading or should I change something else..?