Character design!

[Gazzo]

I think i've got finally the final version, was strugling the whole day with the face and got to this:








Please comment on this, i think i'm going to leave him this way.

[None]

SINGLE thing that really still bothers me is the shade of the pixels that form his neck... They should be dark... His 'chin' casts a shadow over the neck... The smaller the shadow, the more the 'chin' will appear set into the face... darken that and it's great.

[Galen]

Much better, the shading now implies facial features.

[Gazzo]

Well changed the neck, but it kinda altered the pose, don't know he appears to be standing or falling forward ahahah maybe it's just that i was used to the other pose

what do you think?

[Evil]

I adjusted the face a bit to give him more of a nose. I also added some eyes, but they kind of shift the eye focus a bit. Changed the jawline a bit, just to brighten it up. Made the left forearm a bit smaller. I also shortened the legs and adjusted the feet. Changes the feel of the character a bit, but it's just an idea. I think this size of character doesn't need to be all that proportionate, and in this case, I think the legs are a bit distracting.




Also, rather than scaling your sprites in a program you can use height and width tags to adjust the size. Here's the code I used to post my images, the width and height being twice that of the original.

Code: ags

[img]www.harryday.com/images/gazzo_guy.png[/img]
[img height=142 width=154]www.harryday.com/images/gazzo_guy.png[/img]

[Gazzo]

hey, thanx bout the concern but i actualy kept my las version (well edited it a little bit) but wasn't worth a post, and about the size haha i know that, but i don't do it cause in firefox the images appear blured. well thanx anyway!

[Abisso]

Take a look at your avatar... doesn't the face look better there? I think so, and suppose that is due to the fact that he seems to have a plump face in the other frame (the one with the body too). I don't know, maybe he's meant to be child-like and a bit fat, but I'd try to work on the face, maybe thinning his face, using eyebrows, and trying to give him an expression.

Edit: Sorry, I re-read the first post, and since the char is meant to be you, don't get offended from what I told about it. It wasn't my intention to be impolite.

[Gazzo]

hahahahaha no prob, i'm actually not THAT thin. haha but thats not the reason of this kinda hmmm round head !! at the begining i was aiming for a mor realistic style, but now it's kinda more anime/realistic like, hahaha i don't know why allways my drawings in pixel art finish being anime like, maybe it's cause I love it so much !!!

[None]

  YEEEESSSSS ANOTHER ANIME ADDICT... .I mean... oh, that's cool...

[Abisso]

Well, if you've drawn it (or transformed it, on the way) anime-style on purpose, it's ok then. It fits that style pretty well without being too exaggerated, like characters of classic console RPGs.