Aight, first, heya everyone.  I'm new.

I'm looking for some advice on these two, well, basically sprite sheets that I've been doing.  Not actually for a game, but the idea is to look like they'd fit into one - I'm going for a sort of SNES RPG look, and it's best to view these at 4x scale, which is what I had in mind when drawing them.



Top left are the two left and right standing poses.  Directly to the right of them and directly below are left and right walking animations.  Further to the right are the up and down walking animations.  The one labeled WIP is only a tiny difference, it was my first attempt at eyes.  Don't think it worked too well.  To the left of that one are the two frames of the drawing weapon animation - the one where he's holding the gun straight out was actually the first one I drew, and I'm not sure the gun is the best idea - it was originally a staff, but someone told me the way his arm was sticking out really looked like he should be holding a gun.

Below those are the two still rather unfinished firing animation frames.  These are still very much WIPs, and I'd appreciate any advice on them.  Finally, bottom right are just a few sprites that I drew and then decided not to use.

*phew*  Okay.  Any advice?

This is semi-intentional.  The idea was to give pretty much the entire sprite comparatively dark edges so that it'd show up better against the predominantly bright background - no changes needed for the coat and the rest of the clothes, but the face needed to be outlined.  I'll try a bit of shading on the face and hands after I get the head/hair redesign done.



I'm solving this one the easy way by just deleting a few groups of pixels in the middle of each figure and then shifting up and down - I'll edit in other changes onto these ones once I get them working for the sideways ones.





This is the more complicated part.  I realised that the way that the head and the hair looked right now was fundamentally flawed, and so I spent a while redrawing them to look more realistic, then I tried to get the hair to look sorta like the way it did before I edited it.

About halfway through (the one with the arrow below it), I thought the hair sorta looked like a tricorne hat, so for the hell of it I drew a tricorne hat on.  Not sure if it's better or worse than the hatless ones.

Apologies for the late reply, I've been a bit busy lately and didn't have time to work on it until now.



That's the new, bigger, actually tri-cornered tricorne hat design.  I also tried a bit of shading on the face and hands - I haven't quite gotten the hang of skin colouring yet, so it could probably look quite a bit better.



Tried again on the height thing - I did manage to get the coattails, feet and tops of hair all at about the same level this time, but there's probably still a bit of proportion to work out.