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Gift for :iconsilver-eyes-blue:. It's based off of her character here:
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I followed suggestions on the blink, especially :icontgfcoder:'s, to make it a smoother animation and have a three-part blink. I like it so much better! It really looks nice now having her with a half-blink phase ^_^ It's much more natural :D

Critiques


:iconlinepau1:
This is absolutely adorable! Your blinking DEFINITELY improved with this piece.

What I would like to mention is your color choice. I know it's quite difficult when you're working with a pre-existing character, but I've noticed that sometimes your characters blend with the background, or other parts of them. You're doing a good job in fixing this, but I'd like to suggest making the lightest shade on the dress another step up. It might make the dress pop more, rather than blending at first sight. With the dress, I'd also like to mention that he puffs on the sleeve look like they're working into her face. It might be a good idea to round out that area a bit more.

With the face, everything looks great, although I suggest blending the blush in her cheeks, or moving the blush on her (our) left cheek over to the left a bit. It pops more than the other one, and seems a little distracting.

LOVE the thin white glow around her, and the stars. I haven't looked at the reference, so I'm not entirely sure if that's a moon or a flower, but it looks more like the moon in the sky, so I'm going to say I love your moon as well ^^;
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:icontgfcoder:
Hi again :)

First off, don't mind me, but I'm like a perfectionist when it comes to pixel art (drawing spritesheets for me takes like ... a week)

Okay. Firstly, the background is nifty. I like the moon and stars, even though they don't have that cool twinkle any more :( The hair is done better, it's more wavy and lifelike, but it could still be improved. The lower half, in the middle, the body/dress section is a little bland. It's flat, almost pillowy (see Pillow shading.)

Also, if I look hard, it seems like her neck is fat (I'm guessing thats just a bit of her shoulders showing) but you should distinguish that.

The blinking is definitely better, it's more natural now, but it still needs to be faster. Seriously, blink and tell me how long it takes you! It's closer to 0.03 seconds than 0.1+ seconds. Meaning, you should triple or quadruple the frame speed.

You've done a great job with the base of the work but it just needs a bit of refinement.

To better illustrate what I mean, I have added a couple of touches and done up the animation:
* Made the stars sparkle
* Defined her dress
* Changed her blink frame order (now 1, 3, 2 rather than 1, 2, 3)
* Increased animation speed
* a few little personal touches =P

See for yourself: [link]

Hope that helps!
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:iconsailor-serenity:
Aww cute! ^^ the blinking looks great!

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:iconbloody-violet:
zOMG So cuttee!! Love the purpleness! :D Great Job

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:iconkuroitenshi13:
I like both types of blinks. I think you did a wonderful job, though not as cute as your icon now and the Serenity one you did.

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:skullbones: ☆黒い天使☆ :skullbones:

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:icontetiel:
Oh thank you! I'm glad you think so ^_^

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:icontetiel:
Thank you very much <3

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:icontetiel:
Oh thank you ^_^ Haha well I tried to make it cute. Maybe it's the colours I used

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:iconkikaisaigono:
I definitely love that avatar! the blink is getting more and more perfected as you do more avatars :333

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:iconkuroitenshi13:
It's definitely cute. I just like your other ones better. It's bound to happen at some point. As long as the person that it is for really likes it, that is the most important.

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:iconfoxoftwilight:
Very nice! Everything looks great to me. I wish I could do pixels, I'd love to make an animated avatar of my OC.

X_X;; I have such a hard time working on a small scale!

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