I agree 100% with Nonplus you should start writing your own series of characters and races. Could always turn it into some kind of game after? (even if its carddecks haha)
They way cou mix sci-fi with magic is awesome. I know this sounds nerdy.
Thanks for the advice mate!
And yeah an artistic tutorial on colors would rock.
The design is just...wow, really its wow. Its so great, dude its not shit, its not best thing but its awesome.
Here are some minor tweaks mainly the hair/scarf thing, it doesnt look like a scarf not by a longshot. It could be hair, it could look better if it WAS hair. Your colour selection is good, except that blue on the scarf, its very disturbing, if you want to keep it, I advise to change all colours wich will include more blue, so you will have cold feeling from him. I think you should find a tutorial on colours, but I think you dont have problem there oh and remember sometimes less is more. Here are some tweaks I did for you http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/1985/repair.png
Hmm then there's a problem. The yellow thing is not hair but a scarf. Thus I thought I should include the warm/cold colors but I think the thin wrinkles on the back of the neck make it look like hair. Also there's no red in the piece, so no problems for you.
I'm red colorblind, so I can't advise :) What I find unusual is that the "hair" has a warm color that becomes very cold but still very luminous in the shadows, and it clashes a bit with the face plate that becomes very dark where it's not lit. It's as if the materials had a very different way to "catch the light".
Thanks. Do you have any suggestions about the colors? I'm not very experienced about using colors (or anything about pixel art) courageously to be honest. Trying to throw a cold color there and a warm color here but well...
PS: I'd really want some experienced pixel artists gave some suggestions to my works but that rarely happens somehow. Either the work is utterly shit or it doesn't require any suggestions at all :)
I find this design awesome. Not so sure about the color mix.
It already has. A scifi game with magic/tech aliens in it. We are testing it at the moment, you can check it out at www.eclipsetactics.com :) There are currently 40 characters, all of which are my designs (but not my artwork, I only did sketches) with portraits and stuff. It's a player versus player strategy game btw.