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After bingwatching all of Brandon James Greer's videos, I draw my first character: Babalisa.
Criticism and advice are more than welcome.

Animated progress sequence

Palette: Nanner Jam Palette by Nannerman
Reference: "Two Peasant Girls" by Vladimir Makovsky

The name is a reference to Baba Yaga and Vasilisa.

Posted originally on r/pixelArt 2 years ago

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the feedback!
Indeed the format is ~~stolen from~~ a tribute to Brandon James' art :).

I agree that the last version ended up with a more "determined / serious" look than a "puzzling / thinking" one. I was afraid that the second-to-last was hard to read, her right cheek could be seen as the nose and that makes it really weird. But if seen correctly, I also agree that it's more charming.

One thing I've always struggled with tradicional pencil drawing is that the more I work on something, the more it looses the original charm. I thought it was related to the pencil texture, but it also happens with pixel art. I really liked the first pose (the stick-figure one), but once I added the clothes, I was unable to replicate it :/. Now that I look at it again, I think I should have tried a tiptoe stance.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's just a thing in art in general, going from sketch to finished will lose some fluidity. It's hard to introduce that back in.