Hey I'm new on these forums and pretty new to pixel art ;]
Anyways I've posted my first 2 pieces bellow and I'd like some of you guys to criticize it constructively and help me know how I could improve :)

This is just a face of a dessert wondering dude in a cloak (inspired by Qui-Gon Jin):



On this image I know the throne is a little crappy but I just slapped it together quickly to help you put the pic of her in context, otherwise she looks really weird just floating in mid air :P :


Bonus points if anyone can guess who she's supposed to be :)

Edited by Skaka - 04 November 2007 at 3:57am

Here you go, showing pics now.

I'd say that's Cleopatra. Oh and welcome.

Thanks for the warm welcome guys and thanks to Raven for linking the images better than I could :P

Thanks for the CC jalonso :)
I'll upload links to the updated images as soon as I finish them :)
On the dithering thing that was kind of an experiment just to see if I could, but I guess when you're right you're right so I'm redoing that anyways :P

On thing though, what do you mean by 'asp'?

Look closely there are about 3 pixels worth of toe poking out XD But you're right I might make her toes stick out a teensy bit more.

Anyway I took most of the dither out of the desert man, but just left some in to see if I can sneak it past you :P I don't think it's noticeable without close scrutiny.

Here's the dessert man pix (I hope the link works this time).:

the ligth comes from the top left position, so i would reflect that in the face features and clothing. since he on a place with a high luminance, and he's facing oposite to the ligthsourcr, i would use strong shadows. 

Here's an update on the dessert guy: I redid the shadows after reading through some tutorials and looking at some other art and I think it came out allot better =D So watcha think?

Also appart from the pixel technique I'd like to know what  you guys think of the background and the proportions etc if that looks OK.

for one, your light source is out of place.

The shadows and lighting on the guy suggest the light is coming from above and not from the side.

Ok cool :)

I like this coloring way better.
Try coloring the nose using the lighter brown and even AA it a bit.


Edit: why the green on the sun?


Edited by jalonso - 02 November 2007 at 8:24pm

YAIU:
Just some of the minor fixes that have been suggested. Don't really like the nose now becuase it's lost it's definition :/

Hey Metaru, thanks for the help but I :) I also think the head might be a little to big, but take into consideration the fact that his head is kind of bowed down so you can see the top, and also the eyes are supposed to be allot higher than in your shading  :P

Hmmm...maybe if I moved the nose and mouth up?

Same here. I've been tearing my hair out trying to get it to look 'right'. What's really frustrating is just when I think I've got it, I look away for a sec and when I look again it looks awful. I'll update tomorrow again :P

Luke, that's the secret to good pixelart.
You are on your way to Jedi-dom ;)

You never answered why the sun is green and red o.O
I just find the BG all wrong for this guy. Its a cowboy BG not a monk's.

I don't like your last one as much as the one before it, but, wow! you've defiantly come a long way haven't you? ^^






Edited by Skull Master - 04 November 2007 at 10:09am

The head is teeny and bizarrely narrow. Certainly way to small for that cowl:

I saw how the head is supposed to be shaped. The trouble is it looks nothing like that.

EDIT: zomg



Edited by Hatch - 04 November 2007 at 12:49pm

Much better! Looks more natural.

What about my green sun edit 

Yaya I'll get to the son! Oy  vey :P

Just another update. Removed the background and I'll redo it later.

avoid bumping your topics skaka

Sorry about the bump then :P I've started to see how the cowl is too big so yeah I'm fixing that. You're fix actually looks pretty good except yeah gonna work on the cowl some more I'll post an update tomorrow sometime. Riddle me this though what should I do for a BG? I know Jalonso already said a sort of closed church with candles but the will completely mess up the shading and I might then have to do some serious self-harm! Oh and I missed your background change until now Jal sorry if I just seem like a noob who won't listen :P

Nice work there, it really starts to look like a realistic pic. What some effort can do ;)