Sprite Project! Bikke the Pirate!

[Seushiro]

okay we will work with that. . . let me adjust the color a bit

*took out a barely used flesh skin tone and got the entire earring of balthier in place. . .. . . if it still wont suffice let us try putting the same earring but changing his whole ear to match ^__^

[mav]

Hmmm, the shape of the earring makes more sense, maybe we can get it to work right. Did you add a color though? I can tell which color has been removed, but I can't tell what's been added...

[Seushiro]

i added a dark grey. . . oh mav can we make him a bit chunky? if we make the portrait a bit more like the concept art then I am sure the spriters can get an easy load of this guy. . .

*my bad. . . did not adjust when I pasted earring. . . there u can see the dark grey now. . .

[jimmyjw88]

That skin tone between the earring and beard should be brown because now, it looks weird, a dot of skin tone at the shadow area. Also, I think the ear hole there shouldn't be all dark outlines like one line because it looks like the earring is below the ear. Maybe change a pixel to skin tone so that it'll look front earring (ear hole), ear, then back earring (tuck behind the ear).

[Seushiro]

the earring shape cannot be tucked or extended. . . it would be and oblong then a circle or loop. . . it is time to change the ear then ^__^. . . get the lab rats its ear transplant time. . .

[mav]

How would finding a new ear work? The ear isn't the problem here, it's connecting the ear to the earring that's proving to be difficult. I have a feeling this is why they used such a weird angle on Balthier's portrait--the earring's shape is too hard to translate on such small portraits.

[Seushiro]

Balthier's port is based of his sprite and concept art. . . he does have a really small head so the gave him small ears to go with it leading to that. . . our pirate man is not based of a small headed guy. . .

if you stick trying to create a custom and no matter what attempt you do and it does not work. . . it means you just need a new approach at fixing. a new ear would work because the construction of the lobe is small. . . if we get another ear with a better lobe or a set earring then it will fit right through will look tucked back and correct, because the original border colors of the ear will not look like it has the earring floating on top. . .

ear nabbed. . . did not recolor. . . also other ways on how earrings are done but look correct. . .

[LastingDawn]

But the problem is, that look like an extension to his ear, less so then an earring.

[SilvasRuin]

It should look fine after it gets a recolor so it isn't flesh tone.

[LastingDawn]

That it should.

[mav]

I doubt I colored this properly. Seu, if you can fix it, use this palette--I don't think it was necessary to drop one color and add a new color that's virtually unnoticeable.

[jimmyjw88]

Yea, something like that. If you look a few page back, I think I made the ear hole right, if I'm not mistaken.

EDIT: Sorry, I took a look and no, I didn't. Compared with what you have here, its much better than my attempt. Haha. My apologies.

Is this any better?

[mav]

Looks pretty good to me. We've posted many many versions at this point, so let's hear what the general consensus is before we move on...

[Cheetah]

I doubt I colored this properly. Seu, if you can fix it, use this palette--I don't think it was necessary to drop one color and add a new color that's virtually unnoticeable.

Use this earring, but with a dark skin tone above the lightest pixel in the middle of the earring. Better contrast, make sense?

Oh and CHEST HAIR!

[Seushiro]

chest hair on the port?  are u serious?. . .

[Aquablack]

I don't think theres much chest in the portrait to sprout hair from, he'd probably look like he has a very hairy neck.

[jimmyjw88]

Yeah, there isn't any chest to show in portrait.

[mav]

Hmm, the chest hair has proven to be tough, but it may just be doable.

[jimmyjw88]

But the portrait is only until the neck. So, if add hair for the chest, probably just a bit of the hair is visible, at the bottom edge of the neck.

[MiKeMiTchi]

Is someone currently working with the sprite? :/