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[musical tears]

ok, i've been spriting for a while, but i'm too much of an idiot to think of taking my sprites from paint and put them on photobucket. and because the sprites were made using paint, they might be a bit blurry, and i'm sorry for that.

here are my recolors:

charmander with vaporeon colors.

kecleon with flaaffy colors. probably my favorite.

buizel with roselia colors.

bulbasaur with solrock colors. i like this one, too.

squirtle with ralts colors.

larvitar with herracross colors.

golduck with meganium colors.


Splices:

abipom and absol splice.

yea...only 1. i would have more, but somehow, paint got deleated along with my other splices...boo hoo.

Lineless:

Revamps:

gold dratini revamp. probably my best.

gold geodude revamp.

gold mareep revamp.

gold sunkern revamp. again, one of my best revamps.

gold shiny umbreon revamp.

gold wobbbufet revamp.

gold diglett revamp.

gold chikorita revamp.

gold nidoran ♂ revamp.

Random:

baby vulpix.

lineless charmander egg.

so, those are the sprites i have up on photobucket. also, due to my paint being missing, i will not be able to get to your suggestions right away. i will post when i find it and get to all of your suggested sprites.

 

[Flora]

They're actually pretty good! As for the blurryness, that would be because you're saving them as jpgs. Saving them as pngs or another image type might help.

 

[musical tears]

oh, ok. thanks. as you might know, i lost my paint, so i can't change them up. :sweatdrop: yea.

 

[Kai Lucifer]

how many times do i need to say this...

Recoloring the sprite is not revamping. You have to remake certain parts of the sprite by scratching and completely redo the shading.

As for the rest of the sprites, save as PNG always and try splicing more.

 

[musical tears]

oh...ok, kai. i'll try that the next time i revamp...but just so you know, i'm not the best a scratch spriting or doing my whole new shading thing...i guess you could still consider me amateur or noobish at spriting still.

 

[Kai Lucifer]

oh...ok, kai. i'll try that the next time i revamp...but just so you know, i'm not the best a scratch spriting or doing my whole new shading thing...i guess you could still consider me amateur or noobish at spriting still.

No, noobish is when you say that your sprite is the best, and you don't take any advice from anyone because you think that you don't need it. At least you have the capability to take advice.

You don't have to start scratching now, just continue splicing for a while, and when you feel confident enough, try a proper revamp, or try scratching small parts onto a splice. Nobody is an expert instantly.

 

[musical tears]

yea i get what you're trying to say. i guess i'm kinda freaking out cause i want to scratch right now, but my paint got deleted and i can't.

 

[Blastoise Fortooate]

These are really good, especially for a beginner.

I recommend saving as PNG (.png) for your sprites, it's pretty much the best for sprites. Saving as .bmp works, too, but I think they take up more space.

Off topic, I both fear and love the cow. Does that count?

 

[ultraviolet]

!!

If you accidentally lost paint somehow then this has instructions on how to get it back or download an old version, alternatively you could use the GIMP, which does things paint can't do like transperency or exporting images as GIFs without sacrificing image quality (also it's free!). I highly recommend using GIMP, once you learn how to use it it's actually quite easy to use and understand.

With regards to your sprites, they're quite good (I especially love the Kecleon recolour). I wouldn't mind seeing you try more splices. Start with something easy at first (Charizard/Dragonite or something) or you could use Butterfree's sprite generator.

It really is vitally important that you don't save sprites as JPG/JPEG format because it adds a lot of random pixels to your sprites - something not really desirable in pixel art (JPG/JPEG are better for higher quality images like photos). You should be able to find the option to save as different filetypes under Save As... in paint, GIMP will ask you when you save your image. PNG is best, failing that BMP will do (paint compresses GIFs terribly).

 

[musical tears]

@blastoise - yes, fearing and loving my cow counts, but i have changed my cow to a new one. do you fear new cow? and thank you for recommending saving them as pngs. i think all of them are bmps.

@uv - i like my kecleon, too. on another forum, he's my avatar. i think kecleon is my favorite besides my buizel. i will download GIMP right now. i like how it's better than paint pretty much overall. i use the sprite resource here most of the time instead of pe2k cause of the platinum sprites. thanks for recommending that even though i already use it.

ok, i downloaded gimp, but i have no idea how to make my palette bigger (like where the sprites actually show up and not dissapear. could you tell me how, Uv? it would help me out a lot.

I can't use GIMP. it's way too confusing for me, but on the bright side, i got paint back! WOO! i will now be taking in suggestions.

 

[Blastoise Fortooate]

Yep, still scared. l:<

Maybe a Dratini/Trapinch?

 

[Spritemasta3]

Those are pretty good, stop by the PFN's site if you wanna see real talent though. The url is www.pokemonfusions.proboards56.com. check it out. It is a proboards site, but the spriting is all the same.

 

[ultraviolet]

ok, i downloaded gimp, but i have no idea how to make my palette bigger (like where the sprites actually show up and not dissapear. could you tell me how, Uv? it would help me out a lot.

I don't quite understand what you mean.

 

[Spritemasta3]

I think he means his workspace place, maybe- I really don't know; you should post a screen shot so we can understand better

 

[musical tears]

ok, here's the dratini/trapinch splice.

and here's a zangoose recolored as leafeon. i just did him. do you guys like it?

@uv and Spritemasta3 - just forget about the whole GIMP thing. i'm still using paint cause i got it back. and spritemasta, i'm a girl.

 

[Sandstone-Shadow]

The biggest problem right now is that you're still saving as .JPEG. Either that, or you're saving as .BMP and uploading to Photobucket. Try saving your images as .PNG; your sprites will be much clearer and more professional looking.

 

[musical tears]

ok. they will be png as soon as i make the next sprite.

 

[Blastoise Fortooate]

I like the Trapini (or Drapinch), but maybe you should have added Dratini's ear-flaps or something? There's a bit too much Trapinch. But it's still good.

 

[musical tears]

yea...i just remembered dratini's ear flaps. :sweatdrop: i forget a lot of stuff...see avatar.

what do you think i should do next? and do you like my zangoose recolor?

here's an arceus colored as bulbasaur. and, he's saved as PNG! no blurryness! YAY!

and here's a new lineless gallade.

and here's a kecleon with nuzleaf colors.

 

[Firelord Alex]

They are really good, besides the whole jpeg thing. But you should do more splices. Recolors really aren't spriting in my opinion, as it is very simple.