hi, it's looking good, but you have drawn a "woman" with the anatomy of a man. 

the pelvis and hips should be wider and higher up (female top of pelvis goes up to the belly button, making her legs seem longer and torso shorter, bc the hips are higher up.  it also creates the typical female hourglass figure.

females have skinnier and less broad shoulders than men. you need to trim down the shoulders significantly.

they also have thick thighs due to hormones that encourage fat in the thighs and buttocks.  The female calves are also much less developed than a man's meaning they will either lack the typical musculature or they will lack in thickness, making the female leg more conical than columnar as the male's.

women's feet are smaller slightly in proprtion to their face than a man's.

chin in a female is less prominent, meaning it is not as long. 

the arms could be ok if the thighs rest of the anatomy is changed like beefing up the pelvic region and thighs, though perhaps her rigght forearm is slightly too thick.

her left arm looks smaller and incorrect.  shuold be tilted more inwards and the elbow region is too noodly.
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beyond anatomy, her top doesnt yet read as dress.

pants are nicely rendedred.

face needs A LOT of work in rendering.

the hair could be improved since it looks like a wig and the dithering there is bad pixeling.
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if you want i can try my hand at an edit

I tried a reaaally rough edit.  Some things I couldnt get right like the arms shoulders and possibly the legs. 

So in the end, I guess it is to show you more of how to head in a better direction rather than how things should be.

She ended up getting scaled down in the processing of working out proportions, sorry about that. I shrunk your image down to the same height as my edit to show clearer the changes to proportion and anatomy.





Edited by Friend - 27 March 2015 at 3:23pm

Still looks like a dude.  The hip to shoulder ratio is way off.
Feminized edit plus face idea:


Some of those old street fighter characters have exaggerated proportions, like small heads and big feet and massive shoulders (at least the male characters), but the females still looked like females.

your change in your new edit is incredibly minor.  dont be afraid to go bolder with your changes.  be loose and dirty, then when you have the right look is when you turn it into something pretty

The skin tones are your skin tones.  I just tried to use them more effectively.  
My face is a bit anime, but more feminine.  Females usually have softer features.  Even your latest face edit is still very chiseled and masculine. 
Are you using a reference?  Most every artist here uses a reference for face/anatomy stuff, even if for only quick guidelines.  The human body is very recognizable to the eye, so it's very easy to spot anatomy issues, but hard to draw from memory.

That's why the stance looks good. 

Ok guys, thanks for the tips.

Using the above reference, horizontally flipped and scaled down, I tried to make her face much softer and also tried to stick to the structure in the image and work with the pixel area I have:



A gif showing the changes:



Also, here's a new stance I've been working on to give her a bit more personality and power:



And a transitional frame I'm working on to turn the above stance into an energy blast stance:

Would love to see your idea!

The idea behind the gameplay is to be like a combination of TEKKEN, Diablo, and DBZ. I want each limb to be separately controllable and to have lots of different combo "juggle" moves that also include energy blasts, magic spells, and general badassery.

The current animation will be the background character stance and position for a dual hand charge up energy blast. I'm planning to add the energy effect as a separate sprite so that it's easy to swap out colors and even maybe "randomize" the animation from time to time.

I feel sad that I missed whatever perspired here, . Is technos just a troll or just having some fun? I really wanted to see their "throwing ball" edit .

Thanks Dyluck, I'll work on using some stronger contrasting colors and maybe extend the arms a pixel. I've elongated the arms from previous versions, and had friend who's a student artists look at the sprites, we thought the arm length had been pretty much fixed but I'll play with it.

Also I'll play with the darker tones for muscle definition on her skin.

The nose has been a trouble spot for a while. My fiancé actually always calls her "Pinocchio", and we've looked at it many times with me explaining that a single pixel off or on changes the look completely. It is difficult, and perhaps I'll try playing with the colors here a bit more to maybe give a sub-pixel effect, but as it is, the current nose is my favorite.

PS: can't wait to see your edit.

Edited by Transilience - 16 April 2015 at 3:47pm

Thanks for your edit! I like all your small edits and I'll be focusing on on those areas.