Question: Spriting?

[Wind Gale]

How do you make your own Sprites?

 

[Logan]

I would suggest checking out Chesu's tutorial in the Pixel art thread xD

 

[Spinor]

Besides checking the tutorial, keep in mind you will also need some experience on sprite editing.

Don't use the fancy editors like GiMP and Photoshop, simply use MS Paint if you have Windows to edit sprites and get the feel on how the sprites are supposed to look like based on pixel architechture and shading technique depinding on the generation you want to base. I recommend you base off Gen III architechture if you want to make a scratch, but you can do IV as well.

 

[Fox♠]

I would suggest checking out Chesu's tutorial in the Pixel art thread xD

But that covers just scratch fakemon spriting in just one style. That'd be almost useless for a total beginner. (Not saying the guide is useless, it is in fact very well put together, it just wouldn't be a great place for a full on amateur to start)

What you should do is start by taking a visit to https://www.spriters-resource.com/ and looking at different spriting styles. Popular ones amongst many forums are Pokemon (both main games and Mystery Dungeon games) Megaman Zero (for a harder challenge) Mario&Luigi(the RPG titles) and Fire Emblem. There are however literally thousands more styles you could pick from.
When you've had a little look at a few styles you should then pick one or two you like, start with simple recolours then move on to edits and revamps, eventually coming on to scratch sprites. After you've become comftable with a few styles you can either keep perfecting those styles, move on to some other styles or start creating your own style(s). The possibilities with Pixel art are near enough endless. If you want any help with anything pixel related don't hesitate to drop me a line, us spriters are pretty nice guys and I'm often happy to help with anything pixel related.

Hope that was of some help.