Another Character

[ScottDoom]

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He's supposed to be a rich 26-year-old biologist, and I want him to match my 39-year-old physicist in style...
(Click here to comment on the guy with the beard.)

[Babar]

you should use some contrast. the rich guy looks slightly albinic (is that a word?) as there are too many bright colours

[kaaZ]

- Tried to fix his pose...which looked unnatural...
- Made his head a bit smaller...His head was to big...
- Added shading to his suit....
- Changed some facial features such as the red lips, unless he's supposed to wear   lipstick they were far to red...

I know it's not in your style but I'm sure it points out some issues that bordered me....

[ScottDoom]

Hey kaaZ. I know that you were just trying to help, but your "paint-over" doesn't really match the style I was going for.

It looks really nice, however it has way too much shading. I don't know about everyone else around here, but I'd hate to have to push 30 pixels of shading around for every frame I wanted to animate. The pose is nice, but as I said in my other thread for my other character, I want to be able to animate the down walk-cycle from this sprite so I'd like his feet to be facing downward. I'll draw the feet like that for talking animations and stuff later on.

Thanks for the paint-over though.

Here's my edits:

I tried relaxing the pose a bit, and I removed the "lipstick" (I hope).


In this one I tried correcting the "albino" look. It seems I can just never find the right color for blonde hair, so I always end up making black-haired, red-haired, and brown-haired characters. If someone would like to share with me some nice colors for blonde hair that don't blend with the skin color, I'd appreciate it.

I think this guy looks better with black hair though.

[Al_Ninio]

Before attacking someone for trying to help you, just think of how you can use their paintover.
Don't like the overall style? Fine. Look at the pose, anatomy etc. Use it as reference.
Paintovers are just suggestions or learning material.
Use them as such.

[ScottDoom]

I wasn't actually attacking kaaZ with my comment. Well, I suppose I was. I just over-reacted. It's late and I should probably go to sleep. I edited my original post.

[kaaZ]

Sorry i I offended you scottdoom...never intended to...Isn't there a saying that goes like "1 image is worth more than a thousand words" ? Well...that's my general idea on giving advise in critics lounge...I'm not saying that you should adapt my style or anything....Nor I'm copying your style in the edit so you can just say hey "I'll use your edit instead" (not that I would mind) As mentioned in my post I edited it to point out the things that were wrong with your sprite imo...I find it kinda a hard to give good advise just by words....I could have said his pose looks akward...then I had to explain why and how it would look better...or I can edit it and show the contrast in what I think what would make a better pose for this character...

Anyways...If I ever comment again on any of your sprites I'll stick with words...

Cheers!
kaaZ

[ScottDoom]

I gave it another go:


I think I need help with the suit...