Take the AA off around the outside, it looks fine without it. Also the hips are a little incorrect, they're too slanted and maybe to big. You might want to change around the right leg (your left) and have the toes touching but the foot bent upwards, so it doesnt look like she has no ankle. If you wanted to do something with the left arm, you could have it coming out and bent to where she has it on her hip, just to add more.

Hope some part of that helps.

Any chance that it will be fine without anatomy corrections?

your aa is wrong.  It's not just about putting a lighter shade outside to blur things,  like..  her right inner thigh - thats a clean line, so you don't need any aa at all.  Also the 45degree angles of her hips - those are clean as well and dont need any aa.

I'll make a little edit for you to show when AA is appropriate.
One thing you should know is that you shouldn't put AA on the outside unless you have a background with real substance (and it's not animated) because putting a white background just because there's aa is pointless.. cause you can just get rid of the aa and not have the ugly white bg.

Anyway, I'll get  on that edit..

you have some weird colors in there..  your shading should be a tad cleaner i think, cause some of it makes no sense.. the outline especially..


Edited by leel - 20 June 2007 at 11:54am

Thanks guys.


Note to self: save to PNG first and THEN make it transparent. For some reason GraphicsGale doesn't make it transparent if you use GAL first.

EDIT: WTF? Transparency doesn't work! Someone help me, what program should I use? Should I use GIF?


Edited by Dr. Morph - 28 June 2007 at 11:01pm

The left foot (our left) is still looking wrong.

edit: actually both feet.

Edited by Aleiav - 21 June 2007 at 6:35am

Hmm, I'm not sure but I don't think PNG files can be transparent.

I have IE and my png's are transparent.

Actually Doc, the transparancy channel itself is 8 bit, as it's simply a greyscale image with brightnesses ranging from 0 to 255 ;)
But yes, Internet Explorer does indeed support PNG's alpha channels as of version 7.

And, need I say again, the feet are pointed the wrong way for a human being. How long would it take you to fix feet that small? 10 minutes?

I tried, I tried. Why are half of the people picky about 4 little pixels and others say it's alright? It's more the matter of getting accepted now for me than anything else.

IMO there is improvement and frustration. This is going to the latter one.

And that lesson is?

Why can't you spend 5 minutes just shifting the woman's pose? If it makes it look better, wouldn't that be better for you anyway?

C'mon dude. Give me a break. If it's just 4 pixels, why are you making such a whining about changing it? You want it to be accepted? Make it good. You want to make it good? Make her look anatomically correct and not like her feet are twisted in awkward positions.

This isn't rocket science, for pete's sake. It's pixel art.

Edited by Aleiav - 24 June 2007 at 8:25am

why would anyone other than you have to do it?  wtf. 

Anyway, this is pretty pointless, I'll refrain from giving any more advice.
In the end - this pixel is not good enough and you've failed to improve it in the last 4 days.  If you're so convinced that everyone around you is wrong, then I'm sorry, you will have no place in the gallery.

hiya doc,

Edited by eckered - 26 June 2007 at 5:37am

no probelm... but will we get to see some improvements?

If you weren't going to improve it anyway, why bother throwing such a nancy fit?

Well obviously someone's going to post because you're asking me a question, genius.

I don't have the urge to post in every topic. But since crits bug you so much I can see why you might not be too happy about it.

And why do I assume? Because, you didn't seem to apt to improve it when someone spent the time to do edits you whinged and whinged that no one was doing for your already overdone pose/peice. You said "who knows?" and "whenever I feel like it" and, when last I checked, those weren't synonyms for "soon" or "asap".

Edited by Aleiav - 28 June 2007 at 1:43am

Sorry for the double post, the edit button malfunctioned and hang.

I know that the arm looks wrong... But I don't know how to alter it. I checked the position and it's correct I think.

Hmm... I was convinced it was on the arm, not seeing that the hand was wrong...

oh please doc, you have three edits of yor pic so far, and you keep ignoring:
-the feet
-the hair
-the head
-the hips
-the legs
-the bikini
-the shading
-the face
-the body

please...

You really need to take a chill pill and stop getting so angry, dude.

The head is flat because it's shaped flat. It looks like she's a looney tune and someone dropped a boulder on her head.