my first sprites

heres the first sprites i made from scratch last night for my historical game theres a british soldier british admiral french soldier french captain and robert emmet so what do you guys think am i going good

http://www.nli.ie/Front_coverEmmet.jpg

You need to shade the clothes a bit more, they look a bit monotonous.
Also change the hair a bit. Other than that it's alright for a first try.

...Hair? There is no hair. That's the RTP template no-hair thing. Add hair and they will be fantastic.

If you've got photoshop, the Burn and Dodge tools will be your best friend for shading

You need shading and hair. Also, you didn't make them from scratch. You used a template.

try saving as .png, its about the only way characters will work

No Gradient ?
Hair, maybe be cooler.

If you've got photoshop, the Burn and Dodge tools will be your best friend for shading

i foun dodge do you mean blur? or burn i cant find burn

there ok but yea they do need to be shaded and the pants seem very bright

the general is probably your best 1

here one i gave hair what do you think of it?

thats better but you still have to work on the clothes a lil

I suppose if all your sprites are in that style the game could work...

I like them, they need some work to fit in with the RTP sprites, but great first attempts !!!

nice sprties there my friend very nice job