Art Development for Era of the Future(critiques welcome)

[King_Elendil]

Hey, hey, hey; I tried to follow all critiquing, and this was what I got :

I moved his legs apart a couple of pixels, so that I could give them better outlines.

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Do you guys like it? Did I follow directions pretty well? Can you see anything else that needs to be changed?

[Huston]

i like it. but there is one area where i can't tell anything apart. i marked it

[King_Elendil]

Whoa! I can't believe that I missed that! Here is this better?

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[Huston]

much better. now ytou need to wait for mirion and zerovirus's critique. cause there is no further constructive criticism that i can give because i have never sprited before

[King_Elendil]

Huston, I just realized that that was your 1000th post!

[Huston]

it was? i thought my post in the dev thread was. ok *shrugs*

[King_Elendil]

Does this two-day silence mean that he's done?

[Huston]

can you make his elbows a little less jagged? that's the only thing i see.

[King_Elendil]

I tried to soften the elbows, I'm not sure if I did it right. But anyway, here is the unit:

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[Huston]

the one on the left needs more definition so that it isn't looking like there is only half an arm there, although the one on our right looks good

[Issyl]

You should never use black for outlines, only a darker version of the same color.

You have done well in this for the most part, but the outline of the hair needs to increase in value if you plan to keep it the same color. Alternatively, you could make his hair a dark brown or black and that outline might work fine.

[artisticdude]

Argh, me sees transparent pixels.

You never want to have any transparent pixels in a sprite, except for the shadow, of course. And when you're outlining something, alternate between two shades of the same color so that it helps show where the light's coming from. A quick edit to show my meaning:

[King_Elendil]

Wow, thank you artisticdude ! Yeah, now I see what you mean. Here is my latest version, using artisticdude's outlining techniques:

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Is this one done, or does anyone else see something that still needs to be changed?

Edit: Whoa, I posted this picture, and it looks a whole lot lighter on the forums. Is the added brightness a bad thing or a good thing?

[Zerovirus]

It looks... Tolerable, I guess. You're pretty much done with it until someone (cough) decides in a few months or whenever that he wants to redo it Yeah, I suck at giving constructive crit, but that's because I didn't really have any to give on this one and Huston wanted me to give an approval.

[Mirion147]

Yea, it'll work for now, I make take a look at it and see if I want to change anything, (before someone redoes it) but I might not get a chance, (RL is so much fun isn't it? yeaaa...).

I don't see anything that's hugely wrong and don't have the energy to take a closer look at it right now. (after all, saturday is work day at my house.)