Low-res character face

[Matti]

So I've been working on this character and I'm happy with most of it, but I'm struggling with getting the face right. I tried pushing pixels here and there for a while, but I'm not too satisfied with the results. Here are a few versions:

[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/PDVKDMl.png[/imgzoom]

Any ideas, suggestions and paintovers are welcome, not only for the face. I do have problems with drawing the boots too, for example.

[ThreeOhFour]

[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/pfuHpWV.png[/imgzoom]

Tried an edit, maybe some of this will give you some ideas.

[Mad]

I see ThreeOhFour already got there with a great edit.

But I had one ready, as well, so I thought I'll share anyhow:

[imgzoom]http://i845.photobucket.com/albums/ab12/Mad1978/womanPO.png[/imgzoom]

The only thing, that looks slighty off in your sprite is the seemingly lack of jaw bone.
This is easily rectified by making the face just a pixel longer.

Additionally,  I darkend the middle skin tone, because I thought it gave the face more contrast.

Love the sprite overall,  btw...

[Matti]

Thank you both, your edits helped me a lot. The lack of a jaw bone has indeed been the main problem with the sprite I think. I changed that, along with the ears and hair, and I really like her face now. I also tried to find something inbetween the original shoes and those in Ben's edit.

[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/b7M4R4f.png[/imgzoom]