Practice pixelling

[Haddas]

I started drawing this guy yesterday, and finished it today. He's supposed to be a cool mercenary with an oversized gun to boot.

I can't draw heads, not can I draw hands, guns or legs or feet. I need some pointers.

I started this thread because it seems that everytime I put something here I get a billion times better at drawing.

Paintovers welcome.

[Ubel]

The right foot points in wrong direction. It should look more like this:

A VERY quick paintover for the foot.

[aussie]

Pretty good.

Some constructive comments:

- If his left foot is pointing ahead, then his left pocket should probably be much "thinner" or disappear altogether.

- I think his left leg is out of proportion - it's probably too small, even for the depth effect you're trying to achieve.

- His right foot could be in that position, I guess, and I disagree slightly with Pablo. I think it should point almost straight down.

- His head looks a bit like it's floating ove the body. If he's supposed to be the no-neck type, I would push it down a bit. Otherwise, it's probably better to give him a bit of neck (coming down from the back of his head).

I hope this helps.

[Babar]

The back leg looks very small compared to the front leg. Also, the head is shaped like a lima bean! The shape of the head is generally like a ball (the skull part) with a jaw attached. I did a paintover just for the heck of it, so excuse it's sloppiness. Just to show you some ideas on how to improve the character further:


Changes:
I made the back leg a little fatter.
I rounded the back boot a bit
I moved the position of the front boot (I know they now look like sneakers, just ignore that), though I am not sure I got it right
I changed the shape of the head, and added a neck
I fixed up the characters left arm a bit

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

I thought I would give it a go, but the dithering you did made it rather difficult




original edit

A few things I did:

1.  A completely new palette.  You had multiple copies of the same color all over the place and it was confusing.

2.  Redrew the head and added a tall collar.  Your head had no neck and looked like it was just resting on the body, and it was also rather large.  I gave him a scar and a goatee because he's a mercenary and it made him look cool.

3.  I fixed the right arm a bit, and I was surprised at how much detail you put into the right hand/gun vs the left hand. 

4.  Redrew the left arm and gun to make the pose more natural.

5.  Recolored and redrew the legs to make the pose more natural, though I did not add much details to these

Some tips:  Use unified lighting rather than scattering pixels around, and look at yourself in the mirror as you make a pose you want to draw before sitting down to do it, it might help you to get the stance and proportions right.  Sorry I don't have time to do a better edit, but I hope this helps anyway.

[Marlier]

I thought I would give it a go, but the dithering you did made it rather difficult




original edit

A few things I did:

1.  A completely new palette.  You had multiple copies of the same color all over the place and it was confusing.

2.  Redrew the head and added a tall collar.  Your head had no neck and looked like it was just resting on the body, and it was also rather large.  I gave him a scar and a goatee because he's a mercenary and it made him look cool.

3.  I fixed the right arm a bit, and I was surprised at how much detail you put into the right hand/gun vs the left hand. 

4.  Redrew the left arm and gun to make the pose more natural.

5.  Recolored and redrew the legs to make the pose more natural, though I did not add much details to these

Some tips:  Use unified lighting rather than scattering pixels around, and look at yourself in the mirror as you make a pose you want to draw before sitting down to do it, it might help you to get the stance and proportions right.  Sorry I don't have time to do a better edit, but I hope this helps anyway.

Wow! That's really good 

[Haddas]

Woah. It'll be years before I can draw like that à”_õ;
I drew it with my tablet to see how that'd work out, which explains the random pixelling. About the details: my skills keep fluctuating through one and the same picture while drawing it, so it's hard keeping a constant guide-line. At least for me it is... Or then I just suck

P.S: I admire your work.