Are you using some kind of tool other than the pencil in the girl portrait?

I see its cool to have the BG graphic.
I only meant because you have so many unneeded colors but that you can make better by upping the contrast and tweaking colors a bit.
Also, the color changes in the red and purple use what's called 'banding' which is not a good thing to do so don't get in the habit of pixelling that way.
See cure's thread in the sticky link in my sig if you need visuals for that.

You don't have to dither tho this update looks better because the contrast is higher in the shades.
Cell-shading is probably fine for this type of art because generally speaking dithering and flesh don't tend too look nice because dithering does add 'texture'.

It still looks flat because of the lighting... her hat and her chin should be casting more of a shadow.

Wow, ty, I really like the changes. As I understood, you changed hue value of shadow, so her face would look "warmer". So, if i'l want to do the same thing with her hair (as it's basic hue is red) I will need to change hue for shadows to purple? (about 320 hue)

Hi, tried to change the picture again, changed some colours a bit, added more shadows to the face and hat.

That's really nice, but this is more "realistic" picture. I want to keep this picture "cel-shaded", so black outline is nessesary. As for other changes, I'm not sure that amount of details is needed in simplified, "comic-style" picture, although your change of hair shape is really nice, i'l think how to add it.

I think this is because when you changed the angle you didn't lower edges of the hat, so they became too high and steep. Also I think the mouth is too long. Don't forget to change the collar style too.
Otherwise, I like the picture.

(I'l just post in the old topic)
Well. Round 2. FIGHT!!!
- Handsome Jack
1.I'm not sure about lips, for now they dooesn't seem too different from skin, maybe make them brighter or move hue to yellow?
2.Neck shading, does it look ok to you? For now i think it lookds like a skin tone column, mb add more shadows to it's lower part?

There is quite a bit "off", which might be why you're struggling to pin down what's wrong.
The nose is too far to our left, so it's off-center. When you position the nose, the part attacked to the face should be in the middle, but it looks like you positioned the side that sticks out in the middle instead. Also, the face looks flat, the bridge has no defined bridge. That's fine for some faces, but the way you've drawn the nose suggests that the face should not be flat and that the eyes should be deeper into the face.

The eyes are open very wide, people only do that when they're very scared or are trying to look creepy. People naturally tend to have their upper eyelid overlapping the iris, and when we can see the top of the iris, it tends to look like something is wrong. Your previous piece has this same problem, but to a lesser degree.
It also looks like the eyes are copy-pasted. This is better than mirroring them (which would make them look flat), but it doesn't look right for them to be exactly the same shape.

There aren't eyebrows.

The face is long overall, but that is only a problem if the character isn't meant to be long-faced. I would move the eyes down a pixel or two, perhaps.

The mouth is very large, and the two peaks of the upper lip are very part apart. As a result, the philtrum (the dip above the center of the lip) is also too wide. It also looks like you drew the philtrum with a ridge in the middle of it?

The neck is very long. This isn't necessarily a problem if you're going for an exaggerated look, but if you're going for natural-ish proportions, it's too long. Also, you've shaded it like a featureless cylinder. You have the same problem in your previous one too, and it's probably why you're struggling with the shading. Necks have some features that make them look like necks xP

The dithering on the hair looks like noise rather than hair. Keep hair simple, avoid introducing texture to it if you don't have to. Also, instead of having the lines outlining the different locks run parallel to each other, have some locks overlap others, that looks much more natural.

On your Nisha picture you're still mixing your techniques. If you're using volumes on most of the portrait why do you have black lines on your eyes, nose and collar? Fixing those things to match the rest would be a vast improvement that would be pretty easy to do.

edit: I guess you fixed some of this but not in the thread.

Also doesn't feel like that hat is seated. Is it at the same angle as the face? feels it's more tilted and hovering over the head?

Can you give each of these characters a name so we can refer to the name instead of trying to describe which one we are referring to each time we want to review them? Not all of us remember the names of all the Borderlands characters.

I think simply doing some research into exactly how jaw lines are curved would do wonders. Looks like your second woman is improved a lot already though.

Hi, it's been a while. I'll pixel more from now on.
Tried to finish my last picture, changed face a bit and added fur collar and shoulders. Now I can't make the right shadin of the jacket, maybeb you can help?

[Grey thingy on her right shoulder is some kind of a shoulder strap]

Some changes.

Right, but neither of them looks like fur. The shape/shading of the collar looks like it's something thin and flat and your texture looks like a low relief or something printed on it (my first guesses were lace or printed fabric), whereas fur tends to be thick and fluffy.

Yes, but again - the collar still looks flat. The form of the collar is the issue more so than the texture is using (the new texture looks the best though!) Also why is the fur comingfrom above? Should it not be attached to (and therefore coming out from) the base?