Was bored at the girlfriends house so i started doodling.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/oversizedchicken/mockup.jpg)
Scanned them in and tried colouring the background and spriting the chatacter. It looks okay i guess but nothing fancy. Would really apreciate some input and tips on making it look better.
cheers,
the background needs some depth it all seems a bit flat
and as soon as you put any items that need picking up in there they will stand out too much unless you draw and scan them too
Eg your player character seems seperate to the background try and find a happy medium
The background is a little blurry. Thats why the character looks so apart from the picture. Nice though good work!
I could be completly happy with this style within a game as long as you do what Sinsin mentioned as to not make any objects blatantly obvious as to their ability to be picked up.
Also, this may make having any animation in the background, except from other, similar characters rather hard.
The character looks quite fun and I don't see anything glaringly wrong that is anything but stylistic.
Wonderful!
I would use less or no dithering for this style of background. Also you could touch up the outlining digitally to fit it better with the character.
Technique is otherwise good.
Also as Sinsin mentioned it does seem a bit flat. Maybe use different "camera angle"?
Character is nice and stylistic, could use a longer arm though. And maybe bend the arm to show the elbow.
If you prefer handmade bg's, you could make a separate layer and trace them over with a line tool. Usually, by holding down shift and clicking with the pencil - in most image editors - you get nice straight lines. Curves can be achieved simply by more clicks along the curve. As mentioned, the bg do seem a bit blurry and this technique gives you clear and sharp backgrounds.