I'll do a quick run through of how I make my sprites..
X24's Unofficial Official X24 Style Scratch Sprite Tutorial
-Draw an image
-Do an automatical contrast adjustment.. (can be done with most scanning software of any paint program that is better than MS Paint) to make the black lines as dark as possible
-fill inside the lines with a solid colour that will be used in that area of the sprite (use only colours from other pokemon sprites, if you dont chances are the colours wont look natural)
-resize it to 64x64 or smaller if you're doing a smaller pokemon
-make a new layer (*this step was accidentally forgotten, see bottom) (1)
-on the new layer trace the outlines with solid black or any colour lower than '16,16,16'
-remove areas where more than two black boxes touch each other..
-now use the proper colours to refill inside those new redesigned lines on the new layer
-remove the back layer (there should only be your image with minimum colours and no background left) (2)
-add 1-2 shadows and 1-2 highlights to each colour on the pokemon
-adust outline to feature a lighter shade on highlighted side.. use pokemon you chose for reference for colour to know what to use..
Now to answer your question about why it messed up.. I labeled the step that I missed (1).. by doing this I made changes to the original picture and not the new layer and because of that, when I went to get rid of all the access colours Id have to do every one by hand and they arnt always easy to find.. A Pokemon sprite isnt suppose to have more than 16 colours.. because I couldnt find all of them, the image was unperfect.. the sprite I was working on showed that it currently had about 30 different colours (only about 9 should be there right at the minute).. and the more work I did the more that seemed to show up.. I still have my drawing.. As soon as i get back from my trip I'm going to do it right.. I just didn't want to disappoint you..
On a more positive note.. I liked the image of an artists guess of what the mantine pre ev was going to look like so I made a sprite based on thier art, The artist's name is Gravy adn is from Serebiiforums.. Hope the artist doesnt mind..
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Also, Im not sure if I saif it b4 but: Everyone, enjoy ur spring break, See ya next Sunday!!
