This was a character I helped my girlfriend create for a Marvel Super Heroes Advanced RPG session. She's a huge fan of the Marvel Movie Universe and Iron Man in particular, so long story short she's Tony Stark's daughter (she didn't know it until she got the arm) and she's out superhero-ing it up because Tony is feeling his age a bit and wants to make sure he can pass on the mantle (Hence her superhero name, Iron Legacy)
She lost her arm to necrotizing fasciitis (inspired by a friend of a friend who had that happen), so her prosthetic is a high-grade Stark tech model. It has an ARC reactor in the shoulder, and is actually full of super-thin armor plating which can slide out over her body much like the Mark V ("Suitcase"), and prototype S.K.I.N. technology tor a strong, anti-ballistic underweave (the blue bits). In addition, it contains an advanced synthetic cerebral network that houses a "back-up" of JARVIS.
It probably seems incredibly dorky, but she was a lot of fun to design on a conceptual and visual level. I love making 'paper dolls' with pixel art :) |
Yeah, I use semi-transparency sometimes, but I use very light ones and overlay repeatedly to get the desired effect. I also place most of my colors by hand, too. I actually don't use gradients at all; anything that looks like a gradient was pretty much done by hand. I don't hold myself to a maximum color range. I respect those who do, of course, but I prefer using whatever colors I feel like in the piece. I must have somehow accidentally set a color range? If that's the case, I apologize, because I didn't intend to.
I'm open to constructive criticism, of course; what I'm not open to is "this doesn't count" stuff. So if, for example, you take issue with using semitransparent layers, meh. That I could care less about.
Thanks for the tip about the detail file, though; I didn't realize.