just as an fyi, I didn't pillow shade :) all I did was use the shading directly from the reference.
that said, I hope all contributions were beneficial to you in some way evild-123
I'm going to take that as a joke since theres a smiley face there.
God forbid you weren't joking -_-', I'll save my self an extra post:
You don't shade like this in pixel art it just doesn't look good. If the reference looks like that apply artistic license to the image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetic_license so that things look good in the pixelated piece.
I am no pixel artist, but I am a DBZ fan. I skimmed the posts and didn't see anyone mention it, but the thing that stuck at the most to me is that he has no tail?
I'm going to take that as a joke since theres a smiley face there.
God forbid you weren't joking -_-', I'll save my self an extra post:
You don't shade like this in pixel art it just doesn't look good. If the reference looks like that apply artistic license to the image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetic_license so that things look good in the pixelated piece.