First character sprite

[SpacePaw]

Okay,
I started up a project with my friend and to be honest I havent worked on anything graphical like games for long years. That's why I feel the need to ask you all about the front view of main character sprite (he's supposed to be grey/black mostly to blend into crowd). Any anatomical problems? Any stupid shading errors ? Any help appriciated.

[SpacePaw]

Thanks to the help of the SpacePirate and some cool advice he gave me I can present you a version 2.0 of the character any critique and comments are always nice

[Ghost]

Here's a comment then: We need more newcomers like you! The sprite looks very good and leaves little (if anything) to crit... I'm just curious how it'll look in a background of yours!

[Trent R]

Looks great! I'm excited to see some idle animations for a guy like him.

~Trent

[SpacePaw]

I'm afraid that my slow paced work wont let me post an animation nor a background anytime soon besides, backgrounds are sooooo hard to draw T.T

But with help and advice I get here I will probably overcome it sooner or later

[ravenfusion]

You'll get there,  it's better to practice than to never figure them out. That second sprite is a huge improvement, the shading in particular is better than I would've done. It almost looks like a diagonal facing sprite because of how the body is angled.

[SpacePaw]

Yeah I know :3 I suppose it makes him more interesting when just standing than just straight-front view. The shading improvement is mostly thanks to SpacePirate (thank you once again!). Don't be so harsh on your own art by the way it looks great to me (maybe some co-op someday? )