elaine marley concept art

[Alun]

now  about the eyes
take a look at this pic of elaine
the eyes are the same size

But they're also noticeably farther apart than you've drawn them.  The big eyes might work for you if they weren't so close together.

Of course, for that you'd need to widen her head a little... you've drawn her head quite narrow relative to the picture of her from the LucasArts game.

[EDIT: Actually, on second thought, the eyes aren't the things that bother me.  They could stand to be a little farther apart, yes, but I think what looks really out of place is the nose--it doesn't seem to match the rest of the face, somehow.  Actually, I think the biggest problem is just that line on the left of the nose, which makes her nose look sort of blocky and crooked.  Take that out, or at least soften it, and that will (IMO) represent a considerable improvement:



Also, the eyes could use some outlines; having thick black outlines around everything else and no outlines on the eyes looks odd.

Of course, all this is just my opinion, and others may disagree.]

[evenwolf]

relax andy. relax loominous.  I don't need AGSers holding the misconception that I cannout take criticism.

My frustration was never about you criticisizing, loom, it was about you being very ambiguous on what you were criticisizing.  There, now you know - and the community knows. 

[lo_res_man]

If I fan of pixel art may be so bold i would like to say that I think that all this talk about eyes and face and other issues don't cover a MAJOR point. NOT EVEN HOOOKERS IN PIRATE TIME WORE CLOTHS LIKE THAT! :o
think mor corset and and more like the cloths the women wore in "pirates of the caraibian" if elain is goin to were a dress. i know that monkey island is not  "historicly" accurate but the dress ays NOTHING to me of the golden ( mostly fictionul) age of piracey or even just after it
salivate all you want, but the dress is just...wrong

[Secret Fawful]

Well, I may change the dress. Not sure. I was looking for a more burlesque type setting at the dance ball scene, but anyway. I have changed her eyes and nose and hair and mouth. Actually, I've changed her entire face.
http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/elaineinaballdress.png
let me know what you think

[Babar]

Now her eyes and eyebrows make her look sad . Of course, that may be what you want.
Aside from that, even though you linked your image, you could cut out the useless blank edges to make it smaller.

Another thing I noticed is that the collar bone showing and the sagging of her dress at the neck seem to show she is skinny, while her ....voluptuous breasts and well formed legs seem to contradict that.

[Secret Fawful]

Hmm. Thanks. Will change that.

[Secret Fawful]

Have changed the eyes. Made the waist a wee bit wider. Made the dress appear tighter.
http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/elaineburlesque.png
let me know what you think

[lo_res_man]

Still not piratey , im not a prood, have her spilling out of her dress if you want, but it is not burlesque, its  1920's onward, and unless lechucks does time travil, ( an idea that has merits) the dress is still wrong

[viktor]

Her eyes still bother me. It's probably becouse they hawe no outline. And the ear is still placed to far back on the head. I'm working on a paintower. I'll post it later...

[Secret Fawful]

ok

[viktor]

http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/elaineburlesque.jpg

it's a real quick and rough paintower. But I think that you should get the idea. I still think that crazy's paintower should hawe explained it to you. I mowed the ear closer to the face. Made the eyes less round (a sharp elipse). And I removed the lower lip.
I also hawe a tip regarding her breasts. Her right breast (from her perspective) is to stretched. Erase the part that goes in to her arm and make it a bit more round like on this picture  http://www.cablenet.ne.jp/~japanime/howto/tutorial/fbody1.gif

[Secret Fawful]

thanks
will do that