Need some comments and criteques for my new Hero character!

[Echo]

I've spent the whole day working on the graphics for the Hero and a few other NPCs for my new RPG. Unfortunately I'm at a point where I'm not able to make out his flaws anymore, so I was hoping I could get some constructive criticism here on what's wrong with him, and how to improve him.

The top graphic is the template, while the one below is my main character. I wanted to do something a little different from the spiky thing, so I gave him slick black hair instead.

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[Jason]

It would look alot better if you coloured it better, example, make the colours slightly lighter in the top left, as if the sun is shining down on him, it also gives him more of a 3D feel, Secondly, I think it could do with changing the colours ever so slightly, at the minute, you can't even tell he's wearing shoes, because their the same colour as his pants.

This is only me speaking, others might not agree, but maybe I've helped you ?

Oh well, Hope I've given you good advice, lol

 

[Murcu]

I do agree about the shoes.
The sun thing I'm not experienced enough of a spriter to vouch for.
But please, give the man some eyebrows!
He looks quite soulless right now.

 

[Echo]

Murcu, thank you for the eyebrow tip. That six pixel change is incredible - he looks like a totally different person!

I think you're both right about the shoes - I'll muck about with some colours and see where I end up.

As for shading, you're right, it would look better, but I'm going to leave him relatively flat shaded. A couple of reasons for this : (a) I'm making this for a contest game, and I've got a deadline to worry about - every complication I made to a basic sprite is one I'm going to have to add to the other 50 or so sprites that the game's eventually going to have, and (b) light source shading looks weird unless you can make sure that the light source in the game is always coming from the same direction. I've got a section in a cave where the hero is wandering around with a torch, so I can't really do that.

Thanks a million, both of you. I'll post some updated sprites in the morning!

 

[badmonur]

If you ask me the feet could be worked on a bit more, but other than that nice work

 

[Jason]

If you say the hero holds a torch, all you do is make the light source be his face and stomach, and top half of his legs.