I need a little help on the pixels for this piece.



I'm having a hard time trying to get the shading on the arms and legs to look right.
Plus the head's details are weird. They look right to me, but it also looks too big and...well...he's ugly.

How can I fix these problems in a couple pixels?

the edit is good, but the legs are still too short and the thighs looks too close together- I imagine he gets lots of chafing. I would look to Yuran's edit to fix readability issues though.

When you cant easily understand what is going on in the picture. Some ways to fix them are upping contrast by changing brightness, saturation, or hue of the pixels.

Reduce your torso and move above the pelvic portion, knees in place (or perhaps better to shift slightly below) to the head did not seem large because man looks very young bodybuilder.
But first, torso and legs, then most likely you will not have to change his head - a pity to lose the details.

Color change it is not built using the pixel, you have time to pick up color after (just suggest to the gradients of gray, so as not to complicate the perception).

So, the proportion ... You're probably the way it conceived, and of detail is better to verify the anatomical examples - Google to help for you.

Уменьши торс и передвинь выше тазовую часть, колени на месте(а может лучше сместить чуть ниже), чтобы голова не казалась большой - человечек выглядит малолетним культуристом.
Но вначале торс и ноги, тогда, скорее всего, тебе не прийдётся менять его голову - жаль терять детали.
Цвета менять это не строить пикселями, ты успеешь подобрать их после (предлогаю просто градиенты серого, чтоб не усложнять восприятие).
И вообще, пропорции... Ты наверное так всё и задумывал, а детализированность лучше проверяй по анатомическим примерам - гугл в помощь.

Edited by Yuran - 15 July 2012 at 10:26pm