I reccomend trying to fix the left hand. Proportionaly, it doesn't look right. And possibly doing the hair again.

For the cape, it nice. All in all I like it. :)

Edited by devinaaron - 15 February 2015 at 3:40pm

Hi L3V147H4N, welcome to the forum! Well, happy 1st month here, anyways.

So, pixel art. When it comes to faces, pixel art can be really tricky at first, but with some practice and work (such as this) it'll become a smooth process. My two cents are that faces don't need all the details to read as a face, as people make up the details in between pixels. Try drawing a really simple face, maybe with two dots for eyes, then experiment with shading to achieve the effect of a low, menacing brow or a pointy nose. This is not a good time to use outlining, of course. Perhaps avoid that whole-face shadow, as you'll need all the spare pixel control you can get.

The rest of the sprite is a good start, and you've got a great overall shape going on that reads well. The pants are sadly almost identical to the skin tone in colour. That reads as the vampire wearing a belt... but no pants. Having such a large area of light colour right by all the dark boots, cape, and shirt also makes the pants look like the most important part of the sprite, and this distracts from the face. Use contrast to draw the eye to the face rather than the pants! This is also how you can create a more interesting face with more details. Using more contrast carefully around areas that are important really helps reveal their detail.

The cape is very banded, which really doesn't work here. The banding just blurs the lines of the cape, whilst leaving jagged edges that can be distracting. Like with the boots, head, legs and arm, work with actual shading rather than pillow-shading the whole thing. That should help make the cape exciting and clean.

Good work, and happy pixeling with the rest of it!

Yep. Here's a big ol' tutorial thread! Scroll down to "IV. Things to avoid" and you'll find out all about banding.

a few minutes later :3 here is an improve version, I'm still not convinced on the face, in needs more detail I think, but overall I think is way better

Final with Hoody

Thx! Glad you like  Still working on the banding, I did a few changes but didnt like the outcome, I'm looking some other tutorials on banding, just got keep pushing pixels till I get it right. Thanks for the comments

Here is a lower res version of it.

Short Cape and sword

The legs aren't exactly shaped like they should be. Right one seams bigger. Also, consider the shape of the face. With a sprite this big, yoiu won't be able to get away with a square head.

The arms are skrony, so try to muscle them up. And do another frame between the 2nd and 3rd frame, showing as the sword is being unshiethed

If you have any References for NON-Square Faces at this res plzz share :D :D