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My Sprite Work
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Your recolors are nice, but there's really no room for critique so here's some tips.
Make your own palette. Double-click on a color in Paint, which brings up the color chart. Go on Define Custom Colors and go nuts.
To make a palette look as smooth as possible, find a base color. In this case, red. Go on the Custom Colors chart, drag down the bar just a tiny bit so the change is noticeable but not too stark, and you get a nice shade of dark red. Then go up again to get pink. But that's not really a matching color, is it? In fact, let's go with a nice, warm shade of lightish orange to get the highlight. Fun fact: pink doesn't even appear in the natural spectrum.
Basically, you should follow this basic structure of outline:base:highlight. Always pick your base, then match your outline and highlight. Also, consider the surface you're spriting. Smooth surfaces always have a bigger highlight.
It helps to know a bit about the color theory when spriting, but I'm rambling now.
Make your own palette. Double-click on a color in Paint, which brings up the color chart. Go on Define Custom Colors and go nuts.
To make a palette look as smooth as possible, find a base color. In this case, red. Go on the Custom Colors chart, drag down the bar just a tiny bit so the change is noticeable but not too stark, and you get a nice shade of dark red. Then go up again to get pink. But that's not really a matching color, is it? In fact, let's go with a nice, warm shade of lightish orange to get the highlight. Fun fact: pink doesn't even appear in the natural spectrum.
Basically, you should follow this basic structure of outline:base:highlight. Always pick your base, then match your outline and highlight. Also, consider the surface you're spriting. Smooth surfaces always have a bigger highlight.
It helps to know a bit about the color theory when spriting, but I'm rambling now.