Some Custom Sprites

[Skye McCloud]

Ok, so I'm getting mixed ideas here.

I do it one way, I'm told it's pillow shading. Ok, so I change the shading rather significantly to make it more directional, and again it gets called pillow shading. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't pillow shading the act of "shading a sprite by going around the outline with increasingly lighter colour". So basically, it treats the light source as if it's in front of the character.

Given that, I don't quite see how the last one I did is pillow shading. It seems to me like I set a very significant light source to the top left corner of the sprite (With the extra shine to signify this). Also, given the armour design in the chest, that obviously needs a very particular look to be remotely correct, which I had thought was well done.

So then, what exactly am I doing that makes it pillow shading? I've reshaped the shading over and over, redoing the colour scheme and the actual shading so many times. I need more of a grasp on how what I'm doing is pillow shading, since to me it feels like it's not yet I'm being told it is.