Excellent use of color man. It looks great. The only thing that looks odd to me is the raised arm. It looks pretty short, and doesn't appear to bend enough to justify the short length of it. It kind of looks like he has only a lower arm, and the elbow is connected to the shoulder.
If you change the shading on his hand to a darker shade (like his face) it could be the arm swinging away from the camera.
As it is, it looks like it's in front of him, and short a bit. Just a bit, though.
Thanks for the input, guys. The intention was to make it look like his arm is far and bent, but it looks like I screwed up a bit
I'll fix that and post it here later.
For now, I bring other sprites I was toying with, with my project in mind. Alucard Spears!
In fact, they are all the same spear, but constantly evolving. The idea here is that the spear has both holy and dark atributes in it's "brown" forms, but it's final form is defined by Alucard's performance on evolving the spear. The final form can be either majoritarily holy, or majoritarily dark.
Alucard can attack with a fast but weak and short stab using the spear's base, and a strong, but slower and longer stab using the spear's head. In the brown forms, both tips have both holy and dark atributes, but in the last form the head receives a significant elemental upgrade over the base, becoming much stronger against it's designated element than the base. And of course, as it evolves, it gets slightly longer too.
The jewel in the middle of the last five forms is a relic (Lisa's Tear) that allows the spear to evolve further beyond it's fourth form. This jewel is found in Alucard's Room inside Dracula's Castle, and not only evolves the spear further, but allows for Alucard to vault upwards (not unlike Eric Lecarde) to break passages in the ceiling (not unlike Juste Belmont).
Each form has it's own name, and is based or inspired on one of the forms the spear took along the series.
- Saturn - Based on the Saturn SotN iteration (yes yes I know it's not canonical. That's why it is the weakest )
- Mars - Based on the Bloodlines iteration's first form.
- Neptune - Based on the Bloodlines iteration's second form.
- Venus - Based on the Bloodlines iteration's third form.
- Mercury - Based on the Bloodlines iteration's third form, but when it is opened.
- Gaea - Inspired by the Portrait iteration.
- Uranus - Also inspired by the Portrait iteration.
- Ceres - Original with hints of Judgment's form.
- Pluto - Original with hints of Chauve-Souris from Curse of Darkness.
You may be asking "Bu-but Purottotsuisuto-kun, where is Jupiter??" to which I respond: Jupiter is the name of the special attack - an enormous ethereal spear.