Characters: Dwarven goat-nuns and deity

[fred]

Hm, I'm not sure I'm actually going to make a game with these, but once I thought up the concept I had to try and draw them. The story, if any, is vague - something about a girl (the player controlled character) having to deal with monastery full of these suspicious nuns:

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...yes, they're nuns.

They are led by this character:

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...and all must answer to "the god", a beaked and bearded semi-transparent floating head with watery eyes that I still have to draw. I imagine he communicates by birdlike squeaks, interpreted for the congregation by the tall goat mistress, and always to a bitter end for the main character.

... Well, now that I painted them - any crits on the sprites?

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EDIT: Here's the deity/floating apparition thing:

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It's supposed to have transparent background - don't know why it shows up like this - but the apparition itself will also be semi-transparent in the game.
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NEXT EDIT: Here's a new version of the deity where I've tried to fit it more in the style of the other sprites, mainly by lowering color-count and cleaning up the outline. I also made the ear less obtrusive, although it's still in an arguably weird position.Ã, 

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[Cluey]

Oh god, the nightmares, they're all coming TRUE!!

Critique time:

I love the first one.  But the second one seems to be a bit wooden in her pose.

Apart from that, stellar work.

[Ferret]

It's supposed to have transparent background - don't know why it shows up like this - but the apparition itself will also be semi-transparent in the game.

Stop using Internet Explorer.

[fred]

Oh yeah, it shows up right in Mozilla Firefox thanks for the hint.

Thanks for critique Cluey - I tried naturalizing the pose of the tall one

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... but I'm not sure it worked as intended - because now she seems less terrifying and imperative. Any ideas?

[Cluey]

Way better   Though I am seriously quite scared by these   Especially the giant head thingy.  Its like an evil Rito.

[fred]

It's not exactly beautiful, and to tell you the truth - I'm kinda scared of it too... At the same time, I find it quite hilarious, but in a spooky way where I'm not sure if I'm allowed to laugh - that beak looks pretty deadly, and it is a deity, after all... Still, it looks like a parody of itself.

I guess that combination of traits somehow triggers me. And if it sqeaks and behaves violently and irrationally in the game, I hope the character-design is complete. But I will try to pixel it more to the likeness of the other characters.

[Babar]

I thought only male goats had such large horns?

[fred]

I wasn't certain either, so I checked it, and it turns out that

Interestingly, both male and female goats have horns.

From goat description at this site

This site explains that there are also hornless goats, but they are usually infertile.

However, the curved horns of the first sprite has more resemblance of sheep horns than goat horns (the curved shape), and only male sheep have horns. But maybe it can be mountain goat horns like these

[Penguinx]

The smoothness of the deity is a little jarring when placed next to the other sprites (which I really dig, by the way). The short goat, especially, is great.

[fred]

CoolÃ,  Ã, 8)

I edited my original post above with a new update of the deity, trying to fit it more in the style of the other sprites.

In a way I think maybe the dithering is making it less divine-looking... (?)