Well, long story short, I sent some early screenshots of my project to some of my friends and most of them had the same reaction. They thought my main character was a girl. Which would be all right if he was meant to be a she, but since the guy's supposed to be male, its a problem. They're not really sure why he looks like a girl, but they insist that it is.
I created the sprite from frankenspriting from other RMXP RTP sprites, all of which were male.
I wanted to get more feedback. Does this sprite look like a girl, or are my friends crazy?
(http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/433/herotest.png)
They're sillyface. People sitting behind me in study when I was working on the Blizz-abs templates thought they were babies :P The rtp template is really designed to look like the character's battler graphic. As long as that conveys more definite details, you's fine.
they do seem a little girly from the face in my opinion :p
I can see how they would think that seeing that it's clothes appear to be a Skirt and, from the side view, the shirt looks more like a Blouse with the Sleeves looking rather rounded.
Yes, well he kinda does look like a girl, since it seems that he's wearing a skirt and his shirt looks more like a blouse, and that he has tits...