The other hippie!

[Babar]

3x
I need to touch up on my character art, so I thought this would be a good way to do it. I'm not so much interested in the hippiness of the sprite as I am in the technique.

I've always had problems with drawing poses for game characters, especially considering that if it's a playable character, you need the "At ease" position, but it not being too much of a pose (sort of how a normal person would stand around in between adventuring). My characters poses always end up looking boring. I realise this might not be the best sprite to work with, seeing as he's holding up a pipe, but I would still appreciate some pointers.

Also about the art. You might have seen from my previous sprites that I dislike using outlines and too much detail in favour of showing the shape through shadows and blocks of colours. Maybe this is a flawed "style", but if so, help me. If you think it's an OK direction to go, help me.

I should apologise, as this is not so much a "Crit my sprite" call for help, as it is a "This is how far I can go, teach me what else to do, please". I hope this is still an acceptable place to post this.

[thewalrus]

     I really like your sprite! Very cool!!!

[Babar]

Thank you very much! But I don't think it's as perfect as the lack of replies suggest. There must be lots that needs fixing up?

[Tuomas]

It's cool. Take the legs a bit apart from each other and you'd get a more natural pose. oh, and if that's a guitar on his back, the thing it hangs from (sorry can't think of the word) should go from the other shoulder. As in, it'd be attached to the top and bottom of the instrument package. Just a bit info.

[Mikko]

It is funny, but the first thing that I noticed too was the strap going over wrong shoulder (or the guitar case being wrong way around).

About the pose, I think usually it is good to have the other leg little bit in different direction than the other and like Tuomas said legs should be a bit apart from each other. He could also lean more forward.

A quick one:
2x

And although this might sound weird, I gave him an ass.