Guitargodd's Raging Dimensions' Sprites

[guitargodd97]

I am a fairly new spriter (just started this week) who is looking for advice on how he can improve his sprites.
These are all a part of a game I'm working on called Pokemon: Dimensions.

So far I have the concepts for 44/200 and I've designed the sprites for 11/200

Spoiler:

#001 Uraon - Uraon is a small insect that flies from flower to flower all day long|Grass Type|

#002 Uragnon -
#003 Burgano -
#004 Pupper
#005
#006
#007 Shinpet
#008
#009
#010 Penglo - Penglo dreams of flying but spends its days tripping over its long wings. |Flying/Ice Type|

#011 Penglor - Penglor prides itself in the care of its feathers. If they are not perfect, it is miserable. |Flying/Ice Type|

#012 King Pengumon - The king of all things frozen, these regal pokemon rest on the fines of glaciers. |Flying/Ice Type|
#013 Worgo
#014 Karacoon
#015 Piscebee
#016
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# 018 Boltzar - Boltzar is a jovial pokemon until some tries to plug it into a light socket. At such times Boltzar explodes with rage. |Electric

Type|

# 019 Boltzrea - An accident at the glass factory creates Boltzrea, How these appear in the wild is unknown.
#020 Sheelp - In a universe where everything is made of metal, Sheelp roam free. |Steel/Dark Type|
#021
#022
#023 Prizoma - A gem that has been possessed, Prizoma haunts the world searching for purpose. |Ghost/Rock Type|

#024Cadpole - A mamaloid species of frog. It loves to swim as fast at it can. |Water/Normal Type|

#025 Frelige - Although Frelige have webbed hands and feet, they hate the water. Instead they sit by the waters edge catching flies. |

Water/Normal Type|
#026 Isalo - This little energetic bat wants nothing more that to be friends with everything. |Water Type|

#027 Isalore -
#028 Izalora -
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#037 Blopt - Radioactive slime that gained a conscious and began to levitate. |Poison/Psychic Type|

#038Bloxt - Over time, this pokemon went from slime to radioactive stone. It is a scientific anomally. |Rock/Psychic Type|
#039
#040
#041
#042
#043
#044
#045
#046
#047
#048
#049 Daisower
#050
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#054Xoce - A small humanoid, being of fire. It is said to be extremely intelligent |Fire Type|

#055Xodoai - Xodoai is as smart as it is strong. It can predict the future and lift a mountain at the same time. Very few Xodoai have ever been

seen. |Fire/Psychic Type|
#056 Slimboon
#057 Demot
#058 Demiate
#059 Demigon
#060
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#071 Hegen - In a dimension where the only natural pokemon is Hegen, scientist have discovered that certain elemental engineering can cause

Hegen to transform |Normal Type|

#072 Rainto
#073 Flameto
#074 Stormto
#075 Planto
#076 Sunto
#077 Moonto
#078 Duskto
#079 Dawnto
#080 Glowto
#081
#082
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#172 Wander
#173 Wamborg
#174
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#196 Virophagia - A virus that replicates itself by infecting pokemon. The more it replicates, the stronger it gets. |Psychic/Steel Type|

#197 Viroidal
#198 Virostimulan
#199
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[Sheep]

Welcome to the world of spriting :3

Mm, these are definitely not a bad start at all! You've got cool ideas here that I really like. ^_^ But a few things do stick out to me: your outlines are very shaky and you don't really seem to clean up the stray pixels; it's most noticeable on the blue bat's wings. Since you seem to draw the lines by hand rather than the line tool, I'd recommend to erase the pixels on the edges of the lines that aren't necessary and male the lines look too "bulky."

Oh, I also noticed that parts of your sprites aren't actually pixel sprites? The mouth on the bat especially looks like you drew it using a non-pixel brush. Definitely try to be consistent with your sprites! There's also the fire fakemon you posted, which appears to use Manaphy or Phione's head as a template.

 

[guitargodd97]

Welcome to the world of spriting :3

Mm, these are definitely not a bad start at all! You've got cool ideas here that I really like. ^_^ But a few things do stick out to me: your outlines are very shaky and you don't really seem to clean up the stray pixels; it's most noticeable on the blue bat's wings. Since you seem to draw the lines by hand rather than the line tool, I'd recommend to erase the pixels on the edges of the lines that aren't necessary and male the lines look too "bulky."

Oh, I also noticed that parts of your sprites aren't actually pixel sprites? The mouth on the bat especially looks like you drew it using a non-pixel brush. Definitely try to be consistent with your sprites! There's also the fire fakemon you posted, which appears to use Manaphy or Phione's head as a template.

Thank you for the advice, I appreciate everything. Here is the bat, I tried to straighten out the lines and I cleaned it up (I did that with all the sprites) and her is what I have now:

You mentioned that I used Manaphy's head as a template. I did. I wasn't sure if that was a bad thing or not, but I ultimately decided I would change it either way and made its head resemble more of a volcano:

Added two new pokemon to the list:

Spoiler:

Penglor

Prizoma.

 

[guitargodd97]

Update 4/2/12:

Spoiler:

Hegen

Blopt

Cadpole

Boltzar

 

[Nina]

I think all of your recent one are too large. Not even worrying about fitting with the pokemon style or anything, but pixel art has a lot to do with space. Trying to fit the most amount of variance in the smallest amount of space. The bigger you get in terms of how large object are vs. little detail, the more it's "you could just have drawn images instead".

But basically, there's not enough detail to warrant such large sprites. You should try and make them smaller, as they will probably look better and have an easier time with the shapes.

 

[guitargodd97]

I think all of your recent one are too large. Not even worrying about fitting with the pokemon style or anything, but pixel art has a lot to do with space. Trying to fit the most amount of variance in the smallest amount of space. The bigger you get in terms of how large object are vs. little detail, the more it's "you could just have drawn images instead".

But basically, there's not enough detail to warrant such large sprites. You should try and make them smaller, as they will probably look better and have an easier time with the shapes.

Thank you, this was actually really helpful. I was finding the shapes really difficult to manipulate with them being so big. I shrunk them all down.

I also added some detail to Hegen:

And I didn't like how Blopt looked so I changed the sprite for now:

I don't know if I'm allowed to post this here but if anybody would please work with me on this project, maybe helping me touch up sprites, make them more pokemon-ish, I would appreciate it to no end. Please PM me if you are interested.