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All I know is the Expecto Patronum, Wingardium Leviosa, Expelliarmus, Alohomora, Avada Kedavra and Confringo... I AM NOT A TRUE BRIT!

Nope.

xD Celtic Viking Ice Queen! That would have been awesome :3 To be honest, I've never seen Jynx as being a racial stereotype. Sure I can see how she ressembles some of the Jim Crow characters, but I still think it was overblown and changing Jynx's color should have been fine. It's a shame that she hasn't been touched recently. I could imagine a few running gags too... involving like Lovely Kiss and maybe Lick @-@ She could be the new Jigglypuff!

Then again... the lack of an evolution might be for the better if they butcher the design :P

:O An Ice Ultimate Monotype <3 And it looks like we both had the same idea of starting with Jynx/Smoochum o.o'

Infact our teams were pretty similar :P In RBY I added Cloyster and in GSC I added Lapras. And I'll probably hack in Smoochum again when I start Emerald though :P Jynx is one of my favorites and I like using her.I can understand the whole using Pokemon only obtainable in that region thing... but, it feels more traditional to use Jynx all the way through. I'm also not a big fan of using less than three Pokes either. It just seems uncanny :P

lol yeah I saw that, there was nothing rude whatsoever in your post. People just get overly sensitive when they know they're wrong :P

lol yes exactly! Your posts in these threads are just awesome to watch. Gothitelle and 2Cool4Mewtwo are starting to bug me lol

But yeah OMG "the bullying" - SO WHAT. WHY IS THAT REASON. THAT IS NOT REASON.

Hey, you're awesome. Just thought you should know :)

You're welcome. :)

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.

Hmmmmmmmmmm.....................................................................................sure.

Naw thanksies ; D

hahaha woooow, yeah. some people completely lack gaydars :x and you guys did the legally blonde musical? that's awesome!

lol. i think im just going to leave anyway, this place is way too opinionated for me

gay with great taste ;D

I just watched it last night :D I loooove the movie so much, it never gets old haha! I had to get a bunch of elle icons after it.

I'm high-fiving you through the computer right now.

I have to go right now, but when I'm on again I'll give you a proper response and whatever help I can.

Looking for any tips in particular?

Lol, that's okay. I'll send a response a bit later.

Thanks, and I, uh, practiced... a lot?