i think the dithering is overdone, if you've got the colors to avoid it then i would. it's fine here and there, but it's easy to over-dither. head is shaped like a sideways egg ie the top right corner of the circle that forms the head is deflated/dented. the leg on our right seems to be positioned much higher on his body, give yourself a bigger canvas so that you're not trying to cram the features in this square.

you've got plenty of colors now, you just need more contrast between your colors. some colors are close enough in shade that it isn't really necessary to have both. copy+pasted the blue eye 'cause i couldn't tell what the other one was doing really. moved the eyes higher up since they're basically aligned with the beak right now, which is pretty low on the face.

worry about the bubble later, right now you should just focus on the piplup itself.

The body-shape you had before was just way to weird. The one cure made looks a lot better.

  Can't see it? Here's a GIF

Edited by Sleepless - 28 August 2010 at 12:07pm

Wow, thanks for that! I will get to working on it. Can more people please critique? I reeeally want to work on this so I can submit it to thae gallery and hopefully get better.

Update:

I'll try to fix that up, but I don;t really know how, so here goes nothing

Edited by Sleepless - 10 October 2010 at 12:35pm

Might help you, but you might have to start from scratch.

you still haven't fixed any of the problems addressed in the edit on the right

Buddy, I think your problem is that you have no idea about a shape of the object you are painting here.
And Im not taking about creating a crumbled 2d outline and starting to fill it with color.
Im taking about having an exact idea about the 3d shape (volume) of the bird-creature and its position in perspective and relative to view (camera).

It would really help you to dump this nonsensical image and instead create a low detail unshaded, 'wireframe' representation of the object first, also employing accurate perspective.
Dont forget to post it here.

Then you can start shading the wireframe according to the light source with as few as 3 shades of grey (spred evenly between black and white, while not using white and black itself for shading).

When you get thru that succesfully you will have at least some idea how pixelart (and any art) is really made, and you'll stop wasting your time with gum-wad outlines filled with 2 same color shades, and with trolling around the forum for comments and edits on that.

Also after that you should go thru all the newb-torials and other pixelart tutorials linked to on PJ, because looking at your image, you didnt. Its mandatory before asking for CC on anything.


Edited by Riva - 28 November 2010 at 4:36am