thanks folks! i know it's been a few days since any new sprites have made an appearance. yah, i've been through a combination of busyness and laziness the past few days, and now that my DS lite broke (those weak hinges... %@$#), i can't ignore my fakemons as much =/ but before i post some more, let's get to some commentary.
like i said, the stormidran isn't my concept, but i always felt there needed to be a dragon/electric type and liked the concept, so i went with it. the female/male thing, i think it's a little late for that, but it could be something simple like it evolving when dragonair's friendship reaches the max before it evolves into dragonite. i think the idea that the creator was trying to present is an evo with different stats (higher sp atk) but who looks more like dragonair. the thing with dragonite is that it randomly gets limbs, becomes beige and grows horns.
sorry that some of the sprites aren't showing. yeah, imageshack isn't the best, but i'm too lazy to find another image host.
hey KeesZ, yes of course i remember you. you were a talented spriter yourself. you make any new stuff yourself? i'm going to keep spriting just as long as i'm coming up with ideas. i haven't drawn anything new in about a month, so i'm definitely running out of them. i'll probably then get into bigger pieces, or maybe even a dex.
thanks fancies! and hate to disappoint you, but there's no special way i do it. i just draw the concepts on paper and use either photoshop or paint to sprite them freehandedly. i prefer photoshop because i'm a big photoshop junkie, but more skilled spriters prefer paint. can't argue with them. i do have a small tutorial from a while ago. it's not really helpful but it's exactly what i go through when i sprite. here it is:
yup, those are the exact steps what i go through. the second step is what definitely takes the longest. trying to make an outline that is nice enough to finish is what take me a little over an hour. other spriters just start from a color and build off of that and complete it in minutes. i'm not one of them.
okay so here goes another 5 fakemon:
Flurrel (Snow Poke - Ice [Splash, Powder Snow, Odor Sleuth, Defense Curl, Ice Ball])
Frozzel (Snow Poke - Ice [Aurora Beam, Psybeam, Hypnosis, Hail, Signal Beam...])
Nevidrel (Frost Poke - Ice/Dragon [Blizzard, Sheer Cold, Twister, Calm Mind...])
Wanark (Cripple Poke - Steel *Levitate* [Supersonic, Sonicboom, Tackle, Dizzy Punch, Bullet Punch, Iron Defense...])
Yonark (Antigravity Poke - Steel *Levitate [Thunderpunch, Meteor Mash, Taunt, Swagger, Screech])
more to come after new years. have a happy holidays folks =D