I have here a few pieces of work, please tell me what you think. I'm striving to improve my work:

A work-in-progress dragon and hero:

it took me over 3 tries to create the dragon's leg, I had to look at many leg references...
And I'm pretty happy with the hero guy...


I'd also like advice on drawing nice looking isometric grass tiles that happen to be 72 x 24 pixels big. When ever I try to draw nice looking grass using say...3 colors to ends up looking like I used the spray paint tool :P Thanks guys...


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You've got a good start! The colors and shapes of the characters are nice. I'd add some more highlights to make it contrast a little more but as is there's no huge problems.

Where's the dragon's arms?

Your wish...




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gotcha- looking mighty fine now, thanks all

iso grass tiles will usually end up looking like a spry pattern. Keep it simple and only siggest a pattern rather than have an actual one. 2-3 version with a random placement of grass tufts and edge tiles with jaggy edges could work.
The dragon and dude look good.

that is one really camp dragon - make it more ferocious.

I would reduce the size of the hands, they're nearly bigger than its feet.  The horns have an odd curve to them as well, they should be jutting out of the crown of the head, as in your avatar.  The shading on the tail could use a little touch up also.  But very good overall.

For grass, I've always found that drawing 1x2 vertical pixel bars in 3 different shades of green make a pretty good grass effect.  It requires a lot of repetitive drawing of the same bar over and over, but if you space them out right and make sure the edges get the same treatment as the center, it will look real nice.

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Oh thanks, that's a big help, with the land tiles, but now I'm having trouble re-drawing my dragon to face north-east. I can't get the snout to look like its foreshortened and its facing the correct angle...any tips?

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Ok, my grass is evil....

dunno about the head...





Ok, I figured it out, I cheated and copied the muzzle and fore-shortend it in the exact same position:






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My grass is a terrible miss-mash...It looks like BUTT in my 320 x 240 game

The dragon's front feet seem a little big, or maybe just awkwardly positioned. You might try sliding them inwards, towards each other, or maybe take off a digit-- four is a lot. I like the overall design, though.

Your grass doesn't look so bad. If you're not happy with it, though, you could try something with less definition... horizonal clumps of grass, rather than vertical grass blades. It might give a better sense of scale.

This still looks kinda off for some reason...

He's mirrored on 2 frames, I ain't drawing 4x the frames when it comes to animation time 




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