He looks like he has no neck and his hands are too small imo .I would love to see the game when its done :)

ADD A NECK

Maybe make the face more slender, and de-wrinkle the arms.  The arm clothe usually ruffles near the hands instead of where its at on him now.

bearded people with covered necks have necks to! The folds shows upsidedown gravity and his pose is AArg! I am just retyping what souly says -_-
Do you have any lightsource? You should..
The colors are ok :), but you have a really big job on the rest before you can animate.

I know that some animators draw an animated stick figure and then draw the character over that. How about drawing a stick figure over this image? It might help you with your animation later, but it will surely help you with understanding the proportions and the pose. (spreading your arms like this is quite hard. Try it for longer than a minute.. your whole arm says: Please let me hang down! please!)

Gee, this is a lot more responses than I usually get. Of course, I never agree with most things people say. (I really appreciate it, though!)

The face was originally more slender. I couldn't fit all the detail I wanted when it was.

Wrinkles...'kay. Another thing I never do right.

I didn't intentionally do any anti-aliasing in this.

I was told the pose looks weird, like with all my sprites. (Funny enough, I was being lazy when I made the outline, not really intending to make the sprite out of it.)

The hands are round because they never look right when I make them hand-ish.

He's got a neck--at the least, plenty more than he had before. Maybe his shoulders are too tall instead.

No light source. Well, I'm pretending it's an all-directional ambient light source. I think it looks good like that.

I didn't use blue-tinted gray like Frario did because I wanted this to be in a summer-type environment. I figured red would match the dusty ground better.

Edited by DeProgrammer - 26 September 2008 at 1:12pm

You've got me there. Mustachified! (I'll do some of the other things later.)


Later: Not doing the wrinkles on the arms yet... Changed the darkest shade, added a split in the robe, and put the arms down at his sides.


Later-er: I read three tutorials about clothing folds and still can't do it realistically. :P



Edited by DeProgrammer - 26 September 2008 at 10:33am

I'm horrible at this whole observation thing. I know something's still wrong, but I don't know how to fix it. Anyway, here's my current version:


Edit: I think I'm making it worse again. Heh. I added a shade, brightened the ends of the arms so they look like they're forward more, and I redid the torso wrinkles and his left leg wrinkle.



Edited by DeProgrammer - 05 October 2008 at 11:34am

Way better now. Still I suggest totally redrawing the arms and the legs, you could draw clothes over them later again.