Pixel Characters

Today I was playing a game on my tablet called 'Tiny Thief' by Roviostars. It is a sneaky strategy game with beautiful simplistic graphics. Its not pixel, but this game gave me inspiration for this work I'm about to show you.

In the game, the characters are made out of simple shapes where the body and the head moulds into one, so I had an idea of creating a body similar to this in some pixel art:

Then after creating a blueprint for the body shape I created a couple of basic characters:

Knight

 Orc

 Gentleman

 Caveman

 Lizard-man

 Pirate

And here's a more realistic sized line-up: