Hey guys i'm currently making this little guy And i'm having problems with his legs. i cant seem to give of the cloth feeling i'm looking for. Any pointers would be greatly appricated

Edit: to further explain what i'm having problems with :b

I cant get the legs too look like legs. while still keeping it looking like a robe/cloth

Edit: So ppl dont have to scroll down

Wut

The alladin shoes are supposed to look like the end of the robe. just wanted to give it some characther ._.

#1 tip will be to look at reference. Like this one. (1st url) Or this one. (2nd url)

Notice in the first one that there are some fairly right angles where the robe goes straight down, meets the ground, and lays flat. The second one is shorter, so there's less excess material, but the robe still creates an irregular shape at the bottom instead of a sharp cutoff. Now considering how little real-estate you're working with in such low resolution, and given that sprites often have to fit their surroundings in less than realistic ways (like in a game), you may not be able to copy this effect exactly. But you can still probably imply it in some way.

You could also have a shorter robe with less fabric, which would give you less drapings, like this. (3rd url)

Well, PJ and links don't cooperate very well. Here's what I was trying to link:
1st one: http://orig15.deviantart.net/3d94/f/2008/283/f/0/f07224c1e35fdab823f3935e9a108168.jpg
2nd one: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41pHX-rST-L._SY445_.jpg
3rd one: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e0/1a/5e/e01a5e0fe2f23eb66994df95985b2df3.jpg

It doesn't look bad at all, don't be so hard on yourself, it reads clearly as a hooded figure

Most people tell me when I'm stuck to look up references for what you're trying to do, you want a cloth texture, so where you should start are pixel images of robed characters, I selected some characters from my favorite game, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

All images were taken from :

http://www.castlevaniacrypt.com/img/sotn/sprites

who took their images from the game



5 different types of shrouds, hopefully you can take something from these, if not, there is always google at your disposal, good luck

No problem, glad to help

The big purple is Death, the little one is just a random enemy

Its getting better but maybe its too twisty and looking like a tree trunk:/

If you will keep a black BG then consider floating the sprite a little at least on the top :)

Small update. working on a floating candle so that only the things around that will be visible. gonna try to animate it aswell.



Edit: Now with a small animation

The walls like cobbles to me, something I expect to see on the ground rather than in walls, so I keep reading this as the character lying on the floor xP

The lighting on the character changes as the torch moves, but the lighting on the wall doesn't, which looks weird.

The biggest issue to me, though, is that the character barely stands out from the wall. The character, torch, and wall all have the same range of values. Try restricting the background to using only half the values, or at least using the more intense values (e.g. the brighter lights, if you want to keep the image mostly dark) very sparingly.

Try aligning the stones on the wall horizontally, since that arrangement is easier to build. That might help it read more like a wall.

Have you tried suggesting the glow of the torch by using the lights on the background, instead of having those artificial-looking circles? It could look really good.

Right here it is ^^ Stil gotta bring the candle to the same "colors" as everything else. but yeah you were right ^^