Long time admirer of work here, first time pixelator. I just joined anyways, this is my very absolute first firggin' line art.

I didn't have any trouble with at all. I did have a ref.. somewhere.... And i read up about all the pixel lineart tutorials in this forum. Meh, anyways i'm having trouble with the colouration... At the moment i've just blurred a few colours intogeather to get a feel of what it may looklike... Anyone got any good ways of colouring? Or explaining... :S

(oh, ignore the crappy teeth. I'm going to fix them)

This is good for a first piece imo.
True, it is kind of big though.
I think when most people colour, they fill in the midtone colour first, and then start shading.
If you really read all the tutorials as you said, you have come across some shading techniques.

Nice skull...maybe you can shade it from his back you know

don't fear size! if you wanted to work at the original size then I say go for it! There's a lack of good, large, pixel art and it's a crying shame to see you shrink something that had potential at it's original scale.

that being said, skulls aren't so grey-y, take it from a girl who spent two years digging up bones (archaeology) bones get pretty darn yellow, even orange eventually, when they're exposed to stuff, so you might want to tint this more 'lello.

Indeedy, which is kindda... Hard, trying to find the matching yellows that would go well... But yea, thanks for the support, i think when i get better i'll make a bigger version. With maybe more abstract colours or something. As i don't have enough experience to tackle on something so large, and dedicating time into it i believe may put me back when/if it *fails* if you know what i mean...

Anywhoe, i'll stick to this since the 'circular' part of the skull was a lot easier to get on the smaller version and to make it all fit.

Ok, what i'm going to do: Finish up this, then go for a yellow-ish version. Thanks for the help.

So far: No teeth i believe. It's kinda hard to do them

Thanks, and the sel-out is quite hard, i don't think i got the jist of it at all. Since school started and all again. Too tired to read and concerntrate properly lol...

'n Ya, it's my first piece. I've doodled around with two others (like those small tutorials that make you make a small 5X5 block in ISO, where i realised ISO wasn't my strong point lol...)

I think there may need to be one more final edit before this is finish, it look's like somethings missing. I dunno...
Anyways here:

I like the dithering and I see you put quite a lot of effort in this, but ryan is right - the dark parts, specifically the column shadows look awkward.
You need to put more shading in the rear lobe and the (our) left side of the jaw.

the biggest thing about this are the fact that a human lower jaw is not attached to the skull, theyre separate

allso, youre focusing to much on the shading of specific area, and not looking enough at the whole, thus losing depth