Conversation Between -ty- and Esper
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  1. Esper
    October 1st, 2011 8:55 AM
    Esper
    It's good you got to be there.
  2. -ty-
    September 30th, 2011 8:09 PM
    -ty-
    She had like 11-12 seizures with disorientation between each occurrence in the past two days, I was actually relieved to see her finally calm. Thanks for the condolences, I am trying to be as positive as possible, but of course, it is not a very happy moment.
  3. Esper
    September 30th, 2011 12:30 PM
    Esper
    I'm sorry to hear about your dog. :(
  4. Esper
    September 27th, 2011 7:59 AM
    Esper
    No rush. Like I said, I just want to have it for fun.
  5. -ty-
    September 26th, 2011 9:50 PM
    -ty-
    ahhh I am being bombarded with personality tests, I will get it done tomorrow for sure. Your's is going to be tough; I don't want to disappoint, lol. I can't believe I am just doing these my whims. lol
  6. Esper
    September 26th, 2011 5:00 PM
    Esper
    Yay. I am a happy Scarf now.
  7. -ty-
    September 26th, 2011 1:13 PM
    -ty-
    Sure thing, I wanted to make a challenge that was a bit more interactive! I will send you the results tonight or tomorrow morning :)
  8. Esper
    September 26th, 2011 11:27 AM
    Esper
    I don't want to reset my game to do a challenge, but I want to know what you'd make for me anyway. Please do this. Please please plaaseae.

    Spoiler:
    A) USERNAME: Scarf
    B) WHICH GAME: White
    C) GENDER: Female

    a) Favorite color:
    Right now it's red.

    b) Select one of the following which best describes you:
    Brains

    c) Favorite Animal:
    My Little Pony Sea turtle

    d) Where would you rather be:
    Beech or City

    e) Favorite Food:
    Curry

    f) Do you see yourself as more masculine or feminine than others of your gender? If yes, then which one?
    Feminine

    g) Which one are you most like? Good or Evil
    Good

    h) Would you rather be slender or muscular?
    Slender

    i) Which do you prefer?
    Bugs, Fish, Birds

    j) List top three favorite pokemon types in order of preference.
    Flying, Psychic, Electric

    k) What pokemon do you hate (no more than 5)
    Mr. Mime, anything that's based on a monkey.

    l) What profession do you aspire to be most?
    Writer, astronaut, professional pirate

    m) Do you rather dress with a variety of color or in earth tones?
    Variety

    n) Who is your Hollywood crush?
    Audrey Tautou

    o) What is your favorite music?
    Poppy, dancey, electronic rock

    p) What is your favorite non-religious holiday?
    Halloween

    q) What is your zodiac sign?
    Capricorn

    r) Where in the world would you love to travel to?
    Mongolia

    s) Would you rather be smart and unattractive or attractive and unintelligent?
    Smart and attractive. Oops, I mean smart and unattractive.

    t) What color do you loathe?
    Yellow

    u) ON a scale of 1-10, how confident are you?
    3

    v) Do you like art more than science?
    Hell yeah

    w) Name one talent of yours.
    Poetry

    x) Describe yourself with three adjectives. Example: smart, kind, pretty
    Playful, secretive, awkward

    y) Which pokemon trainer from anime/games do you identify with most?
    Um, I dunno.

    z) What type of pokemon do you loathe?
    Dragons
  9. Esper
    September 9th, 2011 9:10 PM
    Esper
    I shoulda been a hair stylist. I missed my calling.
  10. -ty-
    September 9th, 2011 4:57 PM
    -ty-
    Yes, it is! The hair gives me an artistic orgasm! lol
  11. Esper
    September 9th, 2011 7:23 AM
    Esper
    I quite like it too. My best yet. ^_^v
  12. -ty-
    September 8th, 2011 6:20 PM
    -ty-
    i love your new avatar!!!!!!!
  13. Esper
    July 30th, 2011 11:18 AM
    Esper
    You're welcome. :)
  14. -ty-
    July 30th, 2011 11:05 AM
    -ty-
    Wow, I can't believe how much spriting information you gave me! These tips will help me a lot; thanks!!!
  15. Esper
    July 30th, 2011 11:00 AM
    Esper
    Okay, so with the shading it's fine to start out in black only since it's best to keep things simple until you have the rough shape of the piece. If you want to go with the official style most closely you want to have almost all outer lines be black (or whatever the darkest color you're using is) and you want to keep from using too much of it within the piece itself. Save it for the areas that need to show the most contrast, like, for instance, if an arm is going across the chest you'd want to make sure that arm had some black outlines to make it stand out. Parts of the eyes probably should have some black in them, and anywhere else where you're dealing with dark colors and need something darker for the outline. In general you want to keep black outlines away from anything too light, so you wouldn't want some around the top of the hair except for the most outward outline, of course.

    Facial expressions are pretty hard. I usually start by putting a vague line for the curve of the nose and something for the eyebrows or the tops outlines of the eyes so I have a simple idea of where the facial features will go, but not have them be so detailed that I can't move them around if I need to. I start things simple. I get the skin color and a darker shade of that and give it a quick coloring. Then I just a dark color, sometimes black until I can find a better color, and draw a quick and ugly shape for the mouth and the eyes. I'll add the whites for the eyes, and eventually some color for the irises. Then I'll pick a brown or whatever color and go over those black lines on the face and try to add more detail to the mouth and eyes. Somewhere along the line I'll stop and look at the piece and see if the positions look okay. Maybe the mouth is too far to one side so I move it, or the eyes seem too close together, or one seems too large, or something. Everything after that is just little bits of fine tuning.

    Of course I also look at the official sprites to see what techniques they use. Maybe I'm having trouble with the eyes and I'll look and see something that could help on a similar sprite. Basically, my tip is to make something and then fine tune it. Save every stage you work at in case you make a big change and don't like it. Every now and then I'll be on my 30th stage and realize that I want to use something I made 10 steps behind so I can still go back and use it.