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Thank you! I'm currently working on revising some of my campaigns, including this one. I'll include that change in my revisions. Thank you for your help!

I love these. I especially like the 90 degree zig zag line theme, I feel like it really sets it apart from other factions.

Okay, that makes a lot of sense. For Wesnoth style, I won't use transparent anti-aliasing pixels. Thanks for helping me!

In that case, how do you handle anti aliasing on the border? Like if you have a black border and want something to look rounded from far away, for a static picture I just blend the color to be half black and half the background. But with a sprite that gets reused on different backgrounds, I figured ...

Thanks, this is very helpful! The picture I based it off of was missing the feet so I guessed; your image would help a lot. I didn't use a resizer tool; each pixel I placed by hand on gimp (I then compare it to the original photo with overlay and make more changes by hand. I do the overlay process o...

I'm trying to figure out Wesnoth style, so I tried taking a photo of a terracotta warrior as reference and the proportions of the Elvish Fighter as another reference in order to make a sprite. This is what I came up with. I don't plan on using this in-game, but I want to learn Wesnoth style. What sh...

Here is my revised version based on the above feedback and discord feedback:
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And a final version:

Seems like a good idea! Its expression is also a little goofy. I'm going to practice expressions in general and animals about before retrying this one.

I’ve decided to make some custom/alternate portraits for the characters in this. My first portrait is for the mother fire dragon.

Thanks, Heindal! It was my first serious work of digital art (I mostly do pencil) so I've been going back and learning more about digital art in general. Maybe one day I'll do some portraits for non-mainline stuff like add-on campaigns, once I improve.

Thanks, this is really useful! I had the lines on the bottom layer, didn't even think of putting them on top. And the other things are helpful too, I was just kind of fumbling around. I appreciate you taking the time out to help!

Well, here’s my finished version based on the tutorial. I’d be happy to get any feedback that could help me with future portraits, but for now I’ve realized that I need to practice a lot more.

Okay, I tried working on the things you suggested and moved onto the next part of the tutorial, recoloring the lines. I tried bunching up the fabric above and below the belt, tried thinning out the lines a lot more, and separated the torch. For the hand, I did some experiments with holding heavier a...

Thanks for your help! Knowing that there will be an official Dune Burner portrait series makes me feel better. Now I can just work on this as practice and not worry about it having to match anything; I can throw it into one of my campaigns. I'll try carrying out your suggestions tomorrow. Thanks for...

Thanks! I'll make sure to fix that the next time I update the campaign. I appreciate your kind words, and I'll have to check out Shards Era!