sprite animation test

Image above is the sketched animated line test that I hope to complete for the sprite below. I'm aiming for something like a high-definition 2d beat-em-up idle animation sprite. I'm working non-antialaised so that it has a low colour palette. The initial animated sketch was done in the free application Pencil, and the sprite was done in Photoshop.
I based this sprite off a photo I found using google of a figurine. I think it's a character from one of the Ikkitousen series/games.

comic colouring practice 20081006

Lineart from the Topcow website (found HERE). Trying a method I haven't tried before to colour this, using one colour layer; using alphas to store the area masks. Still a long way to go to finish this off.

speedpaint 20081004

Another 15min speedpaint in photoshop.

speedpaint 20081003

15min speedpaint in photoshop.

Photo retouch practice

Following the Gnomon Photographic Retouching dvd as a guide I had an attempt at working on the second image on the dvd.
Learnt quite a bit about photoshop's photo retouching tools from this dvd.
Most of the changes I made were very subtle. Things like cleaning the skin, or reducing the wrinkles on the hands, etc.

Original image below.