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[GiglameshDespair]

He seems to be right handed with the rifle and grenade but left handed with the pistol.

[Doubloon-Seven]

...I actually didn't notice that. Well, I'll try to change it.

[AzyWng]

The way the soldier is holding the grenade gives me the impression that he's got it held by the clasp or the pin or something small that I can't see - it looks like he's not actually holding the physical grenade itself.

Just a little nitpick.

[Rose]

Starting on some final-fantasy style DF sprites.

[Parsely]

Pixel art at this size can be a struggle to interpret sometimes and if it's game art then clarity is even more important. That is to say, I'm not sure what the body is supposed to be (I don't play DF). I can see he has feet and, wings? I think? It looks like he has webbing between his arms and abdomen, so it's almost like a flying squirrel with a man's head.

[Rose]

It's supposed to be a naked human male with long wavy hair.

Definitely a lot of tweaking needed, I just wanted to get something done at least.

The eventual plan is to have a bunch of clothing layers that can be turned on and off and colored. 

[Rose]

Improvement.

[Parsely]

I've looked at some FF6 sprites and I can definitely see your inspiration and what you're going for, especially in the hair and face, but the body's shading is still really off. I see that you defined his arms a little more and gave them some separation from his body, which is good, but his legs need a similar treatment, they look very flat. His arms are now distinguishable but still disproportionately wide (3px, half the width of his body) and appear kind of unnaturally held away from his sides.

Definitely not an expert at this kind of pixel art (I do large pixel art partially because I struggled early on with making very small retro art like this) but I made some edits to the piece to kind of illustrate how you could define the body some more. Do you mind if I post it?

[Rose]

Sure, go ahead.

[Parsely]

1x

3x

Still looks like a bit of a skellington because I have no idea how to shade the torso in a way that doesn't look strange (could be fixed by reducing the contrast between the two skin shades?) but I made his arms thinner and added some separation between his legs. Someone like Dragon de Platino or Noyemi K could probably provide some insight on this.

[Rose]

Yeah, it does look quite a bit better this way, though I'd probably want to play around with the leg length a bit. As it is, they seem a little dis-proportionately shirt, but my latest sprite seems a little long.

I gotta say, differentiating all the different DF clothing items in this format will be interesting.

[Rose]

So I've made some changes. Only problem now is it looks too feminine. Not sure how to fix that.

[Egan_BW]

Looks pretty darn masculine to me with THEM SHOULDERS. Dunno what more you really need.

[EpicJ]

Haven't posted anything here for a long while, thought i'd post a few things i've been doing.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Some kind of rat,


A raptor,


And a robot that i use in a universe i'm developing.

(Yes i'm aware of the random pixel but i'm too lazy to fix it)

[Cathar]

So I've made some changes. Only problem now is it looks too feminine. Not sure how to fix that.

I just removed/reduced neotenic features ; reduced size of eyes, removed eyelashes. Neotenic features is how we silly humans distinguish adult males from females and children. Hope it helps ; also I would dearly recommend never to use pure black in pixel art o/