Absolutely, Carnivac! You are one talented artist. Hope to see more work from you soon. Glad you enjoyed the portraits. :)

Aw I clicked on these cos I like stylish 4 colour portrait stuff but didn't expect to get a shout out. :D  These are very cool and am honoured to have been thought of. :)

He has a lot of nice lines with strong contrast which makes him interesting, even though I find his character design a bit boring copared to some of the others!

Thanks, Parker. I agree. However, I did not want to break consistency with the blue background for the villians, but I couldn't seem to retain the shape of Robo Mantis' eyes with the absence of red. I might go back and edit it, but for now I may just leave it as I have no suitable solution for this fix.

Thanks for the kind comment, Hapiel. Everyone I've shown, seems to have their own favourite but the one that people seem to talk about or appreciate most is Victor Sledge (bottom left). Looking at these after completion, I still think Lann may be my personal favourite but I understand the appeal. :)

You chose some interesting colors! Nice work, I especially like the bottom left and the top right portrait

I think the piece would be better without the orange dots around the matis's eyes.

Awesome job

Looking forward what you come up with :)

Thanks for the feedback, Ptoing! I consider your comment to be high praise (I'm a big fan of your work and your contributions to the pixel art scene). I wanted the villains to stand out from the heroes and I chose a blue background instead of a red one. In doing so, I did not consider the anti-aliasing problems I would inevitably run into. I figured I could get away with the AA on Robo Mantis, because it almost looked like specular highlights, but I ended up grasping at straws when it came to Electra Shawcat. The low colour count did not grant me any liberties, but I suppose it’s best to let pixels just be pixels. I’ll take this into consideration and upload an edited version later tonight.

Thanks for the comment, Moondrome. Close guess! Victor Sledge is an amalgam of characters inspired by my love for 80's Sci-Fi/Action films. In essence, his design pulls from MacGyver, Roy Batty (Blade Runner), Liquid Snake (MGS) and of course, John Nada (They Live!).

really fine portraits. Is the bottom left guy inspired by the protagonist of " they live "?

Very nicely done. One technical crit though: The antialias you have on the bug looking robot and the black haired woman under that does not work. The colours go Dark > Light > Dark. That will never look right.