Final Fantasy Hacktics

Thanks for the feedback. 
Well yes, I admit it, coloring hair so it fits the original characters is not that always that easy, but good that you mentioned it.
As for the palettes, I usually imported colors - from other existing portraits - I considered fitting for each character, at least that's how I understand the part where you speak of borrowing. I never ever played around with each palette color's attributes individually. I swear, it's all only imported/"borrowed" but maybe really just tads too similar colors, as you already mentioned. Sorry if I missunderstood.

Well, most of time, the palettes get divided like the following:
- first color is background as always
- then 4-5 brownish skin colors are for face, faceborder, the eyelid parts, sometimes for some lighter parts in the hair
- 3-4 colors for clothes
- this leaves maximum 3 colors for things like edges, eye color decoration (i.e. the white stripes on the Yuri's jacket)
- and only 1-2 colors for others things (i.e. like the "turquoise" hair basket of Lucia)

Maybe some adjustment of those skin colors (which take most of the palette space) might do the trick. Hopefully without making it look weird D:

Yo, this should be just a little collection of my stuff I'm working on atm... but only portraits and "concept" sprites (the formation ones) so far, I'm not doing too well with the whole spritesheets. Maybe a little help how to proceed a bit easier on the sheets would be welcome. But okay, here we go.

So far I planned and tried to make some characters from the PS2 RPG Shadow Hearts. I absolutely loved it just as I love Tactics. Some other stuff might follow sooner or later. Would be nice to hear what you think about that kind of stuff I'm planning to do, maybe how I could improve them, might be funny to make the Shadow Hearts crew running through the FFT world. I just try to keep them detailed as possible as the palette allows me so far.

The last one was an first attempt at Fred from Suikoden III.

In case of Yuri: I thought of some of his fusion monsters too.... but there's the question, if it's even possible to change a unit form during battle and change it back at command or after the battle. Because if thats too hard, the fusions might be considered obsolete for the intended use in battle... but maybe they would still make some nice boss sprites or such. Hmm... let's see how it goes.

Greetings folks!
Well, time to introduce myself. Name's Neoamon, call me neo, amo, amon, whatever you please. Once, I was part of this forum (somewhere between 2005 to 2008?), maybe someone remembers 'mightysworduser'. But due to time issues and real life stuff we all get now and then, I had no more time to get more into spiriting and portrait stuff and so on  But now that things have settled down a bit, I decided to give this stuff another try and re-join FFH in this manner.

To the left you can see my (honestly modest) attempt of the main character of a PS2 RPG that recently got me charmed again (maybe some people figure out who this guy is), so I thought "why not start to do some of those characters?" (in, of course, pretty modest attempts xD). But things can only get better and improve, right?

So, that's a bit from me. Oh, and mind my grammar, English is not my native language, even if i prefer using it more.

Good day