Not bad. Your colours are pretty dull, get some more interseting ones, some hue shifting perhaps. Get rid of the black outlines, they don't look good, they barely ever do. Sometimes, but not on these. Also, your dithering looks very rough and unclean, fix it, and maybe AA it a bit.
heheh.. this is why i HATE laptops.
i dont acctually SEE the colours you guys see.
depending where i sit /where the screens angles at, depends what colour i get.
also.. i do colour my lines, i just leave some black, becasue i happen to be quite fond of it. :s i know everyone hates it, but i think alot of that is due to prahaps someone somewhere decideing that and then everyone jumping on the band wagon a bit. probably wrong, but still, i like my black >w< but ill try and cut down on it.
(i used to spite with out any, but got told to add some, so please PLEASE, someone stop this black no black maddness TT_TT)
and i didn't AA on any of the pieces coz i was attempting some kinda of colour restiction.
that and the fact i simply enjoy the simplicity of colouring with so few colours. Having drawn alot, with prgorammes liek photoshop, getting all the complex and smooth colouring, i do get a little bit of joy and a break from it when pixeling. to be honest, pixel art REALLY only happend to me when my tablet broke a while back and i had to cent my art into something. (i cant draw with a mouse, but you can PIXEL with a mouse :P)
but my tablets fixed.... <3!!!
and i dont think it really matters what programme someone uses. it doesnt affect the skill level of he or she who is doing it, does it?
i mean, a pencil tools a pencil tool...
nd for your information, the second one down, was done entirely in photoshop *SHUDDER* never again shall i sprite anywhere else other than paint. the complexity defeats the object of me doing pixel art at all.
and Des' call me stupid if you like, but can you elaborate and give me some real c&c, coz saying i lack anatomy.. i.e exactly where and what is it i need to do to make it better so i can fix it? im not meaning to sound rude or obnoxios or anything, i just wish you'd gimme some help other than just mentioning at the end of your comment... i know what anatomy is and all (hahah and yes the make dancer lacks alot of it, he was camp anyway T_T) but i really need some elaboration so i can change my wrong doing ways : )
thanks guys~
Maz.