[MagitekElite]

I'm not good, I'm not even at a decent level. Or so I think. I created this thread to hopefully get some feedback (the nice kind? lol) and work on my spriting. I love to draw, and thank goodness I draw good. But I can't, for the life of me, get spriting down. I'm new to this, a novice working at a Baby's level. I'm working in the template a friend has made that resembles Snes/Nes graphics -- which I've always want! So, here it goes and please, keep in mind I just started to sprite today, literally.

(Although, the hair looks better than any other I created before lol)

When I was making the hair, I thought of Pokemon. The male characters in the show, especially the sprites, have that odd looking hair, so I thought "Pokemon" would be a good start to test around with. Unfortunately, 'this' is what I came up with. But as my first "actual" sprite...I think its not at "garbage" level but at "recycle" level. :sweatdrop:

I'm still practicing shading, as I think that's my worse point with hair....any suggestions? Help, critique? *Nicely please....?*

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Let's call him, for right now.....Danny?
http://i46.tinypic.com/1pzc7o.jpg

(Practice makes perfect. But practice is useless without suggestions/support or critique :P )

His hair, the top left, is suppose to look a little ratty, like he just woke up with bed-hair. The right side of the sprite's head angered me and I know its bad. But I tried respriting that side over and over again...any suggestions on how to improve? I learning off of Muscial and a couple of other spriting tutorials I found across the web, as well as the ones suggested to me in the other thread (although I honestly can't follow Japanese lol), and this is what I got.

Hopefully, I can post my sprites and work here and get help or feedback. That would greatly help me lol

Thanks for reading and taking a stop at Magi's Mystical Studio!~

[Elemental Crisis]

Great job! It looks pretty good!

Maybe its just me but that hair looks like a wig on him. I dunno. : ^_^

[MagitekElite]

That's what I thought lol
I need to keep practicing! I'll start now :)

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Here's another try at hair. This time a woman. I tried to copy the hair style off of a sprite I generated (I love the hair colour and style lol) and this is what I got. >.>

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http://i29.tinypic.com/110xav6.png

http://i29.tinypic.com/25srb6o.png

She still needs some more hair on the sides of her head (meaning I have to edit her hair to make it wider on the skull lol) and a braid, since she had one in the other sprites :C
I can't, for some reason, increase the size or it gets really blurry and loses its pixels...I'll keep trying to increase the size though lol

[Mako Star]

I like the style of the sprites. Would love to see some with clothes x3

[Ultimuh]

Oh In my opinion, the female one dosn't need any. ;)


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what?

[MagitekElite]

Ahaha, you silly Ultimuh. lol I'm focusing on hair and shading first, before I start on clothes and stuff. Hopefully I can get better >.>

Here's another update. This one's hair actually fits the head. But I'm not sure if its worse or better than the last. Its still in edit though! lol
Work still in edit! :D

The lines and shadow/lights in her hair will be changed, definitely. It'll look better, I think. I want to learn how to make the hair better, I know my shading sucks right now lol

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Small sprite view:
http://i29.tinypic.com/2crv79x.png

Bigger version:
http://i25.tinypic.com/xakiu.png

On the lower right of her hair over her eye, I think I need to make some bangs. It looks a little too plain there. She also needs the front bangs too. And then I have to touch up the lights and darks to try and make it look good.

Well...any thoughts? What should I improve, what should I keep trying at...?

Thanks for looking! I'm gonna get back to work on her right now lol

[Ultimuh]

Well the hair look wierder now.. something's missing.. I think?
But that's just my opinion.

[MagitekElite]

Yea...that's what I thought lol

I erased all the color in the hair after posting this so it was just brown with no highlights or anything. I need to redo the highlights and stuff to match better with the templates. The inside of the hair in the previous sprite was better, definitely. I will be make this one have that kind, but hopefully better :>

Plus, I need to add bangs to the left and right sides of her head >.>

[MagitekElite]

Okay, finally, a update!

This is what I've been trying. I couldn't resize them, kept messing up the quality of the image *sigh*

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This one doesn't have any shading...

http://i35.tinypic.com/wqssk7.jpg

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This one I tempted to shade, but I suck at it!

http://i35.tinypic.com/fcvhif.jpg

Any suggestions/help? :D

[Rex Drakos]

Try what I did on for size. I basically put the lighting on every part that would be exposed, and the small parts that would show. And also put a small ring of light around her head. Noting that the parts that stuck up, a.k.a. The Ponytail thing.. I put lighting on that. And try to keep the shading from not looking so.. Big.

http://a.imageshack.us/img826/8444/attempt.png

Saying that, I also suck at spriting and shading. So I'm not much better than you are. ;)

[MagitekElite]

Oh wow! That's.....awesome! Sorry I didn't reply sooner! I mixed this site up with the older one and completely forgot about the change! :o

She's wonderful! Would you mind if I adapted onto that shell?

Current WIP:

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http://i51.tinypic.com/2edxypu.jpg