My new character

[loominous]

I am going for the steriotypical 'Captain America Macho Man look' but with some realism

[Al_Ninio]

Loominous' edit seems nice.
Except the pants make him look a bit... girly?

[Raider]

Hello

Thank you for all of your posts but i'm sort of going for the stocky sype rather than tall and thin, could some one maybe not change the body at all but just improve the detail and shading but please keep posting your ideas about other types of looks he can have. They are all great.
Thanks

- Raider

[SpacePirateCaine]

I think that the big thing that could really be done to improve the original sprite would be to take his left hand out of his pocket (As has been done in most of the paintovers) and just keep his pose relatively relaxed, to show that he is the laid-back soldier-type guy he is. Also, the shading on his hands and arms used to show the split between his fingers, and his forearm muscles seem a bit superfluous at that resolution.

My big question, really, is: You mentioned that he is a soldier, but what sort of a soldier is he? His outfit doesn't do a lot to tell what sort of setting you have him in, which is by no means a bad thing, but depending on the type of character he is supposed to be, there are some things that could be done to improve on the sprite.

I was assuming when you mentioned 'Captain America' that you were talking about his physicality, as opposed to him being some sort of superhero. My thought was that perhaps he's a regular, present day soldier.

Were he to be a regular soldier, I was wondering a bit about the reverse-fold boots he wears. I know it's an odd point to be picky about, but the rest of his outfit works with that 'soldier' identity. If he were a medieval character, however, they'd fit just fine.

[Raider]

Yes well what I meant by Captain America is not like the superhero but a typical American that is mucley. He is a pilot but is also a soldier. I don't mean to be raciest but I want my guy to be the type of Guy that charges into a battle guns blazing and comes out on top with the white cheesey grin like the Americans. If you know what I mean. He is also a present day soldier.
Thanks

- Raider

[SpacePirateCaine]

Okay, that works just fine then. I'd say there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of practicality for him to be wearing the boots you've given him, but they do look alright, and I doubt most people are going to nit-pick too much about them.

Regardless, if you want him to look more like an american soldier, the best you could likely do is to put him into fatigues (Camouflage), or some combination of beiges, the green/black combination may be a bit flamboyant for a gung-ho army guy.

I think the cheezy grin works just fine. You could easily keep the stockiness of his body and trim a little off of the sides to make him look less rotund and a little more musclebound. I did a quick paintover to demonstrate one or two of these points, though I left your color scheme intact.



Here they are, side by side for comparison. I fiddled about a bit with the shading on his torso to accentuate the lines of his musculature, and also whited out some of the pixels on the edges, as well as smoothing out some of the more boxy edges.