c+c character face

[boojiboy]

Thanks gypsy snail. Very encouraging! I'll work on it some more.
Stay tuned

[auriond]

I'm really enjoying the process of how this is developing. How are you redoing the colours now? Pixel by pixel?

Oh, and I know it's a work in progress, but I hope you'll be shading the nostrils more - at a glance I thought you'd made the nose point downwards!

[boojiboy]

With the new colors I've completely started from scratch. So yeah, pixel by pixel. I will fix up the nostrils and everything. Thanks for showing interest, it gives me incentive to keep working on it. Stay tuned.

[Stupot]

I must admit i thought you were black when I saw the original post. And I was quite shocked at Buckethead's comment.. "you're not black are you, thats the only critic I could find."... hahaha, I took that totally out of context and thought he was being racist...

As for my own crit, I think there should be a suggestion of the bill of the cap at the back of your head.  So far it looks to me like a tight round bowl over your head with a hole in the front.  I can tell its supposed to be a baseball cap, but it just doesnt look like one without the bill.

[boojiboy]

At this angle you wouldn't be able to see the bill. Despite it being possible to mistake for a bowl, you still knew it was a baseball cap right?
I'll try putting it in and see how it looks.

[Buckethead]

lol yeah I suddenly realize how bad it would have been if I wasn't right 

[boojiboy]

Update:


How's it looking?

[monkey0506]

I too must admit the horror I experienced upon first reading Buckethead's post. Not having seen the video, I'm still unclear as to what race boojiboy is. From the coloration I'm guessing some sort of Hispanic or perhaps Islander descent...

I must say I'm really liking the way this is coming along. There's still more to be done, but you're doing a great job. Can't wait to see the final product.

[boojiboy]

Well maybe I haven't done that great a job. Because I'm as white as snow.

[monkey0506]

I didn't mean that to sound derrogatory (toward any race or your art ). But you're using a rather dark palette. I'm guessing from the way you're shading it that the lighting was casting a shadow across your face in the reference picture; simply without ever having seen you aside from this sprite I was unsure what ethnicity the subject was meant to be.

Clearly there are situations where lighting and things would obscure these details, so it's not unreasonable that I was unsure.

If you want this sprite to convey your "white as snow" skin, then you may want to consider a different selection of colors for your palette. If this detail isn't that necessary, I'd still say you're doing a fine job. If you do more work with the same "character" you could choose to show off your Snow White skin at that time; and then based on the shading of this sprite I think most could figure out that the darkening was caused by shadows and that your true colors are likely to attract small woodland animals and perhaps some dwarves to spontaneously start following you.

I'm not saying you should scrap the whole thing and start over, simply that (to me at least) your ethnicity is not clearly conveyed. That's not necessarily a problem, but it could have some misleadings (such as the way I started screaming at Buckethead for being a racist arse when I first read his post before he revealed his source of knowledge ). Really I do like this sprite, no matter the skin color (I still like the purple ).

[boojiboy]

Nah that's ok, I didn't mean physically white as snow, I have a slight tan.
Ethnicity is not really a big deal, I'm fairly happy with the lighting setup. All I want to do is use it as an avatar and as an experiment, this is my first attempt at pixelling and I've learnt heaps so far.
Progress:

[auriond]

I have to admit too that without Buckethead's context, I would have thought you were black too, or Indian. (Something about the dark bushy eyebrows and beard, I think!)

The latest version looks less so, but since you're fine either way, I don't think it's a big deal. For a first attempt at pixelling, I think it looks fantastic! I can only hope that if I every try pixel art in earnest, my first try would be half as good as yours.

[boojiboy]

Progress:



Tried to fix the eyes and mouth and some shading areas.

[Babar]

If light is falling on his left side of the face, then you'd expect the cap to also have some light on it. Also, his left nostril looks a bit funny.