howdy. Ive been working on this in the side of my mapscreen project.

This is what ive got so far. I used Jin kazamas pose as reference. And btw i want the head to be bigger than it normally should be!

The head and neck seem to large and buff in comparison with the body. It seems to me that you were working hard on one piece, getting it just how you wanted, then working on another. For instance, you just did the head and face, then added a neck, then drew an outline of the body and started working on the details of the torso, leaving the legs just an outline.

This is not a good workflow, for drawing or pixel art, or any kind of design at all. You want to start with something easy to produce, and inexpensive to modify, then work down from there. It's top down design. So for instance in art, making a rough sketch of your guy, modifying it so it looks how you want it to, then going down to the next level of detail by blocking out the forms, and modifying that until it looks how you want it to.

It's a problem I struggle with personally, not looking at the whole thing, but focusing on getting the details right. But when you don't then you have some well done details that don't add up. Like when I look at this guy you've drawn, then each bit is actually fairly well rendered, but it doesn't add up into one well rendered guy. I could give some anatomy crits and stuff but I think the most helpful thing would be to do what I've describe, design top-down.

The character got a name now. "Yuuto Hayabashi". Remade some shading etc.

alright, ill give it a fresh start :)

i also tried to make more hues for the palette, and i think i succeeded now :p on some level


Edited by PanicBomber - 06 February 2010 at 7:33am