Here's a small ninja guy I made, with obvious similarities to a SNES astro-boy sprite. As you can see there are meant to be two versions of him - a blue and a red. I have tried changing the colour of just his headband, belt and shoes, and of his whole suit. Which do you think is better? Is there any other variation I could use which you think works better?
Does anyone have any ideas how I can improve him? I want him to stay the same size, but any other help would be greatly appreciated.
(http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/GuySprite.png)
You could add shading to the face and neck, highlights in the hair, and take away any black outlines. I don't know about the colour scheme, just make it whatever you think works best for what you are doing.
Well there are already no black outlines, unless you'd count the shoes, but thats because the outlines are a darker tone of the interior grey. Hair highlights are a really could idea, I'll try that. I'm a bit unsure how I should go about shading, but I'll give that a shot too!
The stance seems a little strange... give him some sort of "ready for action" idle animation, bobbing up and down or something. And anger! Anger in his eyes!