Small RPG Character. Seeking C&C

[Derek_Reaves]

Hello. I've been around for a long while (6-7 years at least ?), but due to certain circumstances I never pixelled for extremely long periods of time.

I need a new hobby, and pixel art always irks me as a game designer that has to depend on others for art in order to create games. For now i'm posting something I was working on last night.



I started from scratch, but eventually ended up using a non-zoomed screenshot from lunar legends as a slight reference.

Heavy C&C is greatly appreciated!

[PASSOUT]

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[Jad]

Oh wow

Bye bye PASSOUT :3

[tehwexxl0rz]

See how on the shirt and hair you made it darker around the edges and lightest in the middle? This isn't how light and shadow work in the real world! Consider where the light is coming from and in which direction it is striking the subject. The parts of the character that are hit directly should be brightest and only the parts that are obscured from the light source (by other parts of the character) should be in shadow.

[Derek_Reaves]

thanks a lot for the reply wexx.

I know what you mean and now that you mention it I realized that I pillow shaded =[. I guess its that since working with such a small sprite I try to accomodate for folds in his shirt (around the armpits and waist) too much.

I've made an edit trying to address what you mentioned.



I know that the chest and stomach stick out further than the other parts of your middle body so I tried to make them brightest(i also used white in the highlights and adjusted the contrast a tiny bit). I cast a shadow directly under the chin and also a bit on the tops of the shoulders, but to me it looks pillow shaded worse (although it does look a tad better zoomed out). I tried to shade a little around the waist area to make the stomach stick out a bit more. I also tried editing the hair, but I don't think i'm having much luck =/.

I don't quite understand how to fix these problems. Is there any way you could do a quick edit to help me out and point out what I did wrong?

Thanks a bunch!