@onek
First off thank you for at least taking time out of your day to critic my work. I really appreciate it. The more dull looking character that you said need to be more refined is actually a older verison of the character that looks blue. He actually has made a long and time consuming transition but I'm very proud of my work. Oddly enough though I've had many messages of people telling me that they love the style and want me to work with them making sprites for their games...
Back to topic though. I've had many people from different pixel communities coaching me on my techniques and I try to take in as much as possible. He is for a game though and I'll be doing mock ups pretty soon.
Vell
hi
u asked me to critic ur work and so i do
i made an edit of ur earliest piece, but now that im finished i see that its ~5 years older than ur 2 most recent works, and compared to this piece u made vast improvements over time. ur pixeltechnique is actually quite good and theres much more refinement on pixel level , also colors, proportions, readabilty...
i really like the blue sprite, its nice and clean, the other one is also good, but could need some more work on the jacket/torso... it looks a bit blurry and undefined, i think less colors would work better.
in general theres not much more to say, they are solid sprites but they are very similar and i dont know if u made them of some base or else. theres not much to compare them too, to give a more in depth critique of ur work.
theres only that old character were i made a qucik edit of to show u how u can improve some pixel techniques, like colors, contrast, selective outlining, aa, etc... but i think u pretty much mastered that urself by now. :)
anyway heres the edit
http://i992.photobucket.com/albums/af45/oooonek/Vell123b.png
Btw the very first pixel art I did was supposed to be a character from naruto. Just didnt finish it lol