Opinions on two sets of sprites

Questions
1

Hey guys,

I’ve been training myself in the more basic aspects of hacking, and I’m currently working on how to sprite. In sticking with tradition, I tried to splice some basic red and green cavalier portraits, but I diverged during the process. I made two different sets, and I gotta say I’m proud of my progress.

But I really want to get a sense of what the community thinks; the end goal would eventually be to incorporate the portraits into a hack, and a hack isn’t about the author, it’s about the players. So I’m asking for advice on two fronts: the actual technical, graphical aspects of the portraits, and just the overall appeal of them.

As a side note, I always thought that the cavaliers should have some form of head protection. It’s just more knightly, and that why i decided to use Maxime and Cameron as models, plus the two are similar yet different enough to not appear to be straight clones.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

2

I’m not really an art person, but I think these both look pretty good, and as far as splices go are appealing, but if you plan on doing an actual hack it’s not a bad plan to try and move on to sprites from scratch, or at least incorporate more custom elements into the splices you do to make them seem more unique.

3

You must have 16 or fewer colors, counting the background as a color.

You also shouldn’t mix colors from different games.

4

…you realize they are actually recolored clones
like
the sole difference is literally 6 pixels lol