Time to restore life into this thread.
I've been attempting to sprite Smogon's third Create-a-Pokemon creation for the sprite polls. It is a Fire/Grass type and is quite bulky in base stats. The design is not my own, but rather submitted by user Elagune, I only interpreted it as best as I could in sprite form.
Original sketch can be found here:
https://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b358/KnightOfLodis/woodman.png
Anywho, my first round of sprites from it were not so good. I based them off of this sketch, whos main problem was the fact that I drew it too long horizontally thus causing problems upon resizing for sprite editing:
https://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Art/Fairly Recent to New Art/gilaman.png
Don't get me wrong, the end result isn't terrible. Just see for yourself what could have been:
Early beta sprites:
"Finished versions:
I had originally messed with what types of flame looked better, but in the end it was all for naught, as I had abandoned that sprite and started from scratch on another.
This newer sprite I am immensely more confident about. For one, the pose is much better both in appearance and proportion. (It was easy as pie getting him into the 80x80 specs) I actuallly managed to finish this one off with all the necessary sprites for Shoddy. The sketch I drew for it is here:
https://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/kingofanime/Art/Fairly Recent to New Art/newpose.png
Works in Progress:
Final product: (contains male and female versions and shiny palettes)
I put a lot of time and effort into these, so hopefully it shows. ;)