It... Erm.
I'm not sure actually. I kinda -tried- giving it a shadow... But that didn't turn out nearly as well as I'd hoped, since it makes the guy kinda have a symmetrical shadow which can be more easily attributed to his cloak. Regardless, shadows are one of my weakest points.
Going to also take this opportunity to say that, yes, I have no idea how the cloak thing is supposed to look. I wasn't thinking about depth when I drew that part >.<
The pallete itself is pulled off several different mainline sprites from Wesnoth; I'm not particularily good at making palletes either.
Does the sword have no shadow or is it just an awkward angle?
That's Wesnoth style shadow. Solid color, hard edge, specific shade of purple-gray at 60% opacity. So no, I don't think I'll be changing that away from the mainline style. Thanks for the input though.
Awesome sword and job, maybe if you give some transparency to the shadow with dithering will be more cool
well dont worry, practice makes perfect like people always say. this is already decent enough to the eye xD.
and reallly nice looking sword, it does remind me of he-man some how.