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Pixel art OCs: Claire

Same character as before, except with a different-looking shirt. It is now dark blue with gray grid lines running throughout, and the image in the center of it now portrays three people in front of a cityscape: a black man with black hair and a yellow vest, a white-skinned man with blonde hair, a blue headband, a white tank top and jeans, and a white-skinned woman with black hair in a red dress. All of them are raising their fists, as much as it is possible to show in such a tiny space.

This is the first character I drew who actually got a name. This is the design I settled on at the end, but I actually had a few more, which you can see below.

History

Pixel art image of a white-skinned woman with very red hair standing next to a wall, somewhat leaning onto it with her left hand and covering her mouth with her right hand (but it’s still possible to see a bit of a smile), wearing a white shirt, skirt, over-the-knee socks and not-yet-shaded-or-defined sneakers

At this point, I started both drawing these characters at a higher resolution and actually giving these OCs names, and this one was named Claire. The plain white background and clothes were a placeholder that I was using while figuring out how to properly draw things. The general workflow stayed the same – first freehand the face and basic pose as if i was drawing a stick figure, then gradually draw in the actual details – but the higher resolution was less forgiving of errors. On the other hand, I was finally able to draw someone’s hand without having to reduce the number of fingers, as is common in animation, as well as do realistic eyes properly.

Similar image to the previous one, except Claire now has fully-drawn sneakers and a more prominent shadow on the wall

Similar image to the second one, except Claire now has more proper hair, slightly thinner and better-shaded legs, and her shirt has medium-length sleeves instead of really long ones

Eventually I decided to give Claire a “retro video game”-styled outfit. The shirt got a design similar to that of a video game cartridge, while the skirt was instead styled after the connectors on a cartridge, with interleaving gray and yellow/golden stripes.

Pixel art image of a white-skinned woman with red hair standing next to a wall, slightly leaning onto it with her left hand, while covering up a smile with her right hand. She’s wearing a shirt with a design resembling a video game cartridge, whose box art shows a black man with a red headband and a white-skinned woman with blonde hair holding firearms, while weird claws and an alien head is behind them. Underneath that shirt is a skirt, with a visible stripe of green at the top and a stripy (and somewhat shiny) grey and yellow/golden pattern throughout the rest of the length, invoking the look of pins at the bottom of a video game cartridge. She’s wearing black knee-height socks and black sneakers with white tips, shoe strings and what looks like a small emblem at the side.

This one ended up resembling a weird mix between an NES and a Game Boy cartridge, with the central design being a slight modification of the Contra box art.

Same character as before, except with a different-looking shirt. It is now dark blue with gray grid lines running throughout, and the image in the center of it now portrays three people in front of a cityscape: a black man with black hair and a yellow vest, a white-skinned man with blonde hair, a blue headband, a white tank top and jeans, and a white-skinned woman with black hair in a red dress. All of them are raising their fists, as much as it is possible to show in such a tiny space.

Then I decided to draw a different design for the shirt, styled after Streets of Rage instead. Sadly, cartridges for the 16-bit Sega console tended to have rather boring designs in and of themselves, so instead I took the grid pattern from the game boxes instead.

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