Nightcrawler has a fairly dark palette, necessitating use of highlights to indicate some of his features. I really only needed to do it with his hair, to give the sense of texture and shine that he is known for in the comics.
I also gave him a pointy ear, or tried to. I’m not sure how successful this is, but I left it in.
His bifurcated toes are also drawn in, a bit abstractly since they are pointing straight down. Those pixels are more a symbol of his toes than they are representations of them.
He needed eyes. A couple pixels at 64×64 did the job. For the ultra-fine detail on the forehead atom symbol, I had to go all the way down to 256×256 resolution. I could have done it at 512×512, also.
I need to think about away to do a glow effect. Maybe just a gaussian blur, but I don’t know if that is right for pixel art. For now, this works.
I didn’t want to do facial features, but I thought that his arched eyebrows were important enough features to try to represent them. Just four pixels at 64×64 resolution does the trick.
Man, there sure are a lot of 60’s Marvel villains who have green outfits with yellow boots and gloves.
I like the way I did the transparency of the dome helmet on this one. I just used the color picker to select a darker version of the blue I used for the dome glass.
