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>>7975610
No light source and this looks very low effort.

>>7975610
Try sketching things out first in a non-pixel format

>>7975610
Looks like modern indie game garbage.
Imho, it’s the same as learning how to draw and paint. Draw what you see, in pixel art. Like try it now, something in front of you. A laptop, mouse, monitor, book, etc. It’s a waste of time to read tutorials, books, etc. about jagged lines and other nonsense like that. It’s like reading loomis and thinking you can draw manga afterwards.

>>7975692
>Heh buddy, too bad your first attempts at pixel art don't look like this masterpiece from the golden age of Japanese pixel art.
Why are you like this?

>>7975610
is this based on a reference? if not i suggest drawing the character you're imagining normally first. then make the pixel art.

I would say she looks a little too thin, but in the same pic, her arms are too big and her shoulders should be a lil higher. not sure if that's valid tho since idk what she is supposed to look like, just forming an opinion on a regular female figure. i'd personally make the dress poof up more too.

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>>7975610
Got that Daggerfall look going on. Nothing wrong with that just felt like mentioning it.

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>>7975610
you want my completely honest opinion? if you want to get actually good at pixel art, and not just modern indie dev stickmen, you should learn regular art. the best pixel artists were just traditional artists who were given a computer and left to figure out how to transfer their skills over to it and work within the limits of early computers.

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left side is my first attempt at pixel art, right was my second attempt. I tried to make a PS1 memory card save icon style thing. What I did was first try to draw normally with a one pixel brush, then adjust colours pixel by pixel trying to get a good read. It's pretty difficult working in such a low resolution, one can't just outline stuff for example. The pixel artist also has to know all the same things like colour theory and values like any artist. So just do more art I guess

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>>7975610
Go to the spriters resource
dig out some games you like the art style from, and just try and make sprites in that style
Also - look up an art pallet for colours rather than using your own just yet.
It's honestly the best way to improve

Then try taking some media you like, a game, an anime, whatver, then try drawing that in the same style as the one you picked from spriters resource.
This will give you a finished piece and something that might inspire you to make more

also I'd recommend using Aseprite, it's probably the best pixel art tool out there.
Pic is something I made forev er ago

I really want to make some pixel adoptables for my website, which will probably only mean something to 40-year-old women, but I'm having trouble with the degree of abstraction necessary. Back in the day people did a lot of sprites based on sanrio and sanx characters, which is maybe a little easier to start with because it's all round shapes

>>7976084
That's very unnecessarily complicated unless it's a full resolution CG.

>>7976135
These would look a lot cleaner if you reduced the number of colors in the palette

>>7975610
your anti-aliasing looks horrid, proportions are something that would have not been used during pixel art days, there's certain traditions in each type of pixel art from 8 bit to 16 bit to 32 bit, you should first learn by copying the style you are going after, remember to layer your colors going from base to shading. Characters were generally 16x16 in 16bit art, 32x32bit also had the same thing since they were locked to a pixel limit, palette was also limited to 4x3-tone colors usually.

>>7976084
Asians did some funny shit regular people in the west did not regarding art transfer, most people just filled in their art on a grid paper first to get the pixels look exactly how they want even back in Ultima days.

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>>7975610
Ooh I pixel let me run it down.

First with your outline your doubling up in some places and really you don't need the outline across the full body we know it stops because it stopped.

Second we want to make a point to work with our limitations by using a limited palette we stress our muscles and help grow while with this it seems you made extra colors just to shade differently in some areas.

Try this one again but do away with any outline not touching another color.

Seen here is me creating 30 or so images with just four colors

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>>7978161
Wait no this was the so so month.

Here this was using 2 colors