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My first D/Pish-style scratch trainer sprite ever.
Um...right.
The head seems to be facing left yet the jacket is facing forwards, and the pants are sort of halfway.
He seems to fat for the little head :)
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Yarnchu
Yarn is comfy and easy to wear
Not really. Recolors are. Also, with devamps, you can't just make everything 4 colors, you need to edit the shading and certain parts of the body to make it look like a good devamp.
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disaster pigeon
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Okay, Zulo's male Combee. Kinda wobbly, you should probably straighten/fix the lines. The left(our left) arm is kinda deformed, and the stinger is.. bad. Doesn't look too attached, blah. And I know it isn't, but the outline looks next to all black. I can see a few differently coloured, but meh.
PichuK
They've locked down their fortress... with locks!
CRITS. Yes.
One of my major irks with this is that it's way too dark. The contrast between the three colours is insane, and makes the sprite really, really painful to look at (for me, at least). It's generally a better idea to use colours from actual g/s/c or yellow sprites instead of making your own, if you're unsure of how to get a good contrast.
Want to know something that annoys me to no end, but nobody seems to 'get it'? Devamps are not recolours, either. For example, take is r/b/y Skitty devamp I did a while ago:
Most r/b/y sprites are pretty light when it's trying to show a light colour, like yellow. You need to change the shading to look as if it were from the generation you're devamping to.
However, the main reason why Devamps =! Recolours is because of the outlines.
OUTLINES.
The outlines from before were really, really bad. So you should do the same, no? You're trying to make it look like it was from an older game, not some cheesy recolour.
Also, you've missed the darkest outlines on the right foot, tail, and ears.
First, it looks like the head is missing a lot of outlines. It's really choppy. The outlines on the wings also look really choppy. How did you even manage to do that? It's something that confuses me a lot. The wings' colours are rather awkward, as the gray "markings" just look like splodges that you didn't recolour correctly. You have not recoloured the outlines of the wings, and you've copy flipped them (which is bad). You've got some weird holes in the colouring (under the arm) and the right shoe looks rather mutilated.
It's blatantly obvious that you've used the circle tool to make the outlines, or that you've edited it. Never. Don't do it.
I'm also very confused at the angle. Am I looking at a wing and a tail? An arm and a leg? Where's the other leg?
The shading isn't very good, and the whole thing looks rather flat and bland.
The anatomy is weird. How can it stand? It looks way too fat.
The outlines have little colour. Again, this makes it look flaaat.
You have the same problems in the other sprites, too: Flat, weird anatomy, usage of the circle tool, and not-very-good outlines. They all look unbelievable and wobbly, not much like real pokemon sprites.
Practice makes perfect, so keep trying. Maybe with official pokemon and without the circle tool?
One of my major irks with this is that it's way too dark. The contrast between the three colours is insane, and makes the sprite really, really painful to look at (for me, at least). It's generally a better idea to use colours from actual g/s/c or yellow sprites instead of making your own, if you're unsure of how to get a good contrast.
Want to know something that annoys me to no end, but nobody seems to 'get it'? Devamps are not recolours, either. For example, take is r/b/y Skitty devamp I did a while ago:
Most r/b/y sprites are pretty light when it's trying to show a light colour, like yellow. You need to change the shading to look as if it were from the generation you're devamping to.
However, the main reason why Devamps =! Recolours is because of the outlines.
OUTLINES.
The outlines from before were really, really bad. So you should do the same, no? You're trying to make it look like it was from an older game, not some cheesy recolour.
Also, you've missed the darkest outlines on the right foot, tail, and ears.
First, it looks like the head is missing a lot of outlines. It's really choppy. The outlines on the wings also look really choppy. How did you even manage to do that? It's something that confuses me a lot. The wings' colours are rather awkward, as the gray "markings" just look like splodges that you didn't recolour correctly. You have not recoloured the outlines of the wings, and you've copy flipped them (which is bad). You've got some weird holes in the colouring (under the arm) and the right shoe looks rather mutilated.
It's blatantly obvious that you've used the circle tool to make the outlines, or that you've edited it. Never. Don't do it.
I'm also very confused at the angle. Am I looking at a wing and a tail? An arm and a leg? Where's the other leg?
The shading isn't very good, and the whole thing looks rather flat and bland.
The anatomy is weird. How can it stand? It looks way too fat.
The outlines have little colour. Again, this makes it look flaaat.
You have the same problems in the other sprites, too: Flat, weird anatomy, usage of the circle tool, and not-very-good outlines. They all look unbelievable and wobbly, not much like real pokemon sprites.
Practice makes perfect, so keep trying. Maybe with official pokemon and without the circle tool?
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Why is the first in a rectangle? 80x80 or 64x64. The second one is pretty small too.. Okay the first thing. What's with it's head, is it supposed to be behind those leaves? That's a dust cloud or sand or something... it looks rough and copy-pasted. The leaf to the right(our right) isn't outlined, and there seems to be a black blob coming out of the back of the tree/flower.
The Celebi/Espeon, right? WHAT THE FREAK ARE ITS EARS DOING? And the eyes. Ack. The outline is almost all black... And it's undersized.
Keep practicing.
The Celebi/Espeon, right? WHAT THE FREAK ARE ITS EARS DOING? And the eyes. Ack. The outline is almost all black... And it's undersized.
Keep practicing.
Blastoise Fortooate
Geographical!
Ice tiger
Has claimed your vital regions.
The thing coming down? Well if you zoom in by copy/pasting into paint or something you'll see that that's the back leg~ But I see how it can be a purple blob from the tiny pic~
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