My first room and character

[angrafan]

hi there, i'd like to show you my first room and character for a game i'm starting, any comment welcome






i know there is no shading in both of them so a shading tutorial would be also welcome

[Moox]

nice bg, but the character is slanted way to much. If i stood like that I would fall

[InCreator]

* Looks nice so far. But you gotta decide either you go for photo-textures or just color. Because super-detailed carpet doesn't fit to plain-colored floor at all. Or floor doesn't go with carpet. Same about walls. Is there a photo under your bg?
* Post PNG's instead of JPG's, so there will be no blur on them.
* Bed's legs, where they meet floor, are way out of shape. Make ends rounder.
* Ceiling and wall intersection makes me think that ceiling is made of something soft. Mud perhaps? Make ceiling line straight, instead of this freehand mess you have there right now.
* Make all outlines only 1-pixel wide, or even better, remove them at all.
* There's something definetly wrong with bookshelf.
* use width/height with img tag to show your sprite in double size

Well, you have still some work to do. Overall, this is very good bg for first attempt. I like especially these warm colors you're using. Good work!

[Apocathary Fairy]

I don't mind this. I think it has potential.
Good use of perspective (although I'm guessing you have painted over a photo ?) I like the mixed media - If you get rid of the black out lines (use a closer colours to the main colours) it might be really effective. I like he character but can't really make it out due to it being a JPG (dithering and all that crap). Try copying your bmp into a GIF instead and then consult the BBCode and smileys reference to learn how to enlarge it like Increator suggested(just double the attributes). Even though it's hard to see I think the character looks really good interesting stance and curious to look at.

[trylle]

Character:
Hm. He's scratching his balls. Or is he trying to zip his pants?

Background:
Ugh. Don't mix photos and npr (drawn) stuff. Do either, not both. [edit]oh, right. that's already said.[/edit]

and yeah, 2x zooms would be nice for us lazy people.