this is my first attempt at pixel art and i would like as much critiques and comments as possible. i am serious about learning since i am an art major and would like to do pixel art as well.

Dont use black on interior lines and it'll be a lot easier to read (not that its bad now, but could be better). In a few places (knee and shoulder) you did break the outline, and it looks better, so why not follow through everywhere?

The hair's shading seems a little pillowshaded too. makes it look flat and strange compared to the rest.


also, personally, I'd shrink the top left spike to be smaller than the one to its right. Give a good cone-ish effect to the hair. either that or make the 2nd one bigger. just looks odd to me for some reason.


edit: made an edit



The grey shade was really dull so I replaced it

also noticed in a few places of the outline it looks like you were antialiasing to the background. unless the sprite has a background its not generally a good idea, especially on a site like this, because people can have any number of colors in the background, so sprites aliased to a different color will look bad.


Edited by Zeratanus - 05 August 2011 at 4:54pm

thank you,ill make sure to pay closer attention to the saturation in my colors for future designs C:

I appreciate the time you put into redrawing it so i can see the difference in quality. I am planning add him to background and once i have time ill post it up so everyone can see my development. Thank you for teaching me a bit more about pixel art.

Wise advice. I'll make sure to submit it into the WIP section and upgrade it there, before posting it into the gallery. Thanks for the heads up.