Yeah, when Kabbage showed me his original work in progress of
the beard I thought it was pretty damn good. The thing is, originally I wanted almost all the guys in the game to have beards, but whenever I tried making a bearded sprite, it never looked right. The first sprite that I did that I really liked, the little armoured pikeman, wouldn't work with a beard and then all my sprites that I made from that base one never got to have beards.
But Jason's beard looks great, I really like the broadness of it and the sort of ragged quality it has without looking messy at all and being very identifiable as a beard. I think the shape of his visored kettle helmet could be improved a little though, like made a little flatter and wider in proportions, just a little. Otherwise I love him though. He might look better with a mustardy colour for his not red sleave and pant leg rather than white. Just a thought.
I like Red too, but I don't feel like his chain mail thing he's got going on there really equates to anything Landsknechty. My suggestion is just to either ditch it and just give him a slashed doublet or swiss looking clothes instead of any armour or to make it look more like a
Bishop's mantle which was the sort of thing a less professional guy like that would have as his only armour along with some leather gloves maybe.
These woodcuts are overly foppish due to being drawn by gay men who were only inspired by how the landsknechts actually looked with their intentionally wild and garish clothing, but they at least give a good idea of the elements of their dress and armour.