PerverseSuffering wrote:No offence, eharper, but there's something off with the proportions; in fact, too off to be considered a selling point. Do you use references?
On the pixelart? Where?
But if you mean the scan from the D&D booklet, yeah, that's some pretty old stuff (4~ish years old) and I kinda sucked alot then. I still kinda suck now, just not so badly. No offence is taken.
I draw in a rather puzzling self-taught way, effectively from memory each time, and without any drafting process, because my memory is nigh-on eidetic for the purposes of visual arts (I literally remember the exact lay of lines I need to compose a face, for instance, and reconstruct them). It has utterly confunded a few of my more artsy friends who start properly with figures and build features around them.
As a result, though, proportion has always been my enemy; its no good if I can fully sketch a head well if my subsequent sketch of a body attached to it is smaller, or what not. As an analogy, I guess you could say that, since I start with the details immediately, that I can't see the trees from the wood.
I quite often come back to a sketch later on, realise how terrifying it looks, and give it a huge adjustment, in fact.
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Yeah, I'll add the halo later. But Illiya doesn't exactly have ~alot~ of pixelart.