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here you go
i've put a sort of mini-tutorial in my picture, i'll explain it a little better here.

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basically, your sprites have good line art, but the shading lacks depth. this is mainly because you are depending on dithering [the little dots to shade]. i like to use a lot of block shading [pure shades of the colours, like in animation] in my sprites, because it is more characteristic of the pokemon sprite style.

just practise with shading different shapes, i.e. rounded objects, flat objects, until you have a feel for how the shading will work with the shape. then you can apply it onto your sprites, and make them look more 'alive'.

i hope this helps! if you have any questions, just ask.
 
Shadow Scizor said:
I updated Fenecoy using the Tutorial, how is it?
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it's looking much better! geez you improve quickly :}

short crit - the light source is still not completely consistant, although it is looking better. try drawing a little sun, like i did in the tutorial from where the light is coming from. this should help.

other than that, great stuff!
 
Blazin Espio said:
Megafuz:fire kitty=cutest fire type thing about
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Aww...thanks!! Glad you like him. XD

Shadow Scizor said:
I updated Fenecoy using the Tutorial, how is it?
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It was already mentioned, but your light source still isn't consistent here. Your outlining could use some improvement as well. It's just a little choppy in places. You continue to improve though, and that's what counts!! :P
 
It's Crystal Clair, back for a visit.
Well I was searching through my Marana folder and found this interesting animation I had worked hard on just because I wanted to see a sprite in battle mode. It's a tad slow and some pixels are glitchy but I feel it came out pretty good for last year.
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What do you think, for one of my first sprite animations.
If it doesn't move you can just rate the sprite.
 
that's a very cool sprite, clair! looks like it would have taken an age. i know the last thing you'd want to do is add to it, but i think that the sprite could do with the outlines darkening just a little, to distinguish the features apart a little more. other than that, it's great!

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here's your sprite edit! i made the colours a little brighter, changed some shadows and saved it as a GIF. ALWAYS SAVE SPRITES AS A GIF :P

and here's another tutorials for you all. it's basically the 1st one, but made a little clearer.
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EDIT: woops, i forgot to do highlights. don't worry kids, i'll do this another day :}
 
there really isn't much difference, but pixel art is suited more to gif in my opinion [especially sprites, as they have a limited colour pallette - why save to PNG when they'll look exactly the same as GIF]
 
Hollietree if you save as gif in paint it screws it about just as much as jpg
 
"image removed" ratei recently joined pokemon elite 2003........ but i never use that account.,
 
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