HOME | DD

Description
Well, a lot of people have wanted a sprite tutorial, so here it is!
Obviously there are loads of ways to sprite and this is just my own, but I'm sure it'll help you getting started.
You can sprite on pretty much any painting program- from Photoshop to MS Paint, it reall doesn't matter what you use. I use Corel Paint Shop Pro but that's only because it's the only one I have.

1. Open a new 96x96 canvas, and make sure your brush and eraser are both size 1 with a hardness of 100.
Use a red (255 red, 0 blue, 0 green) circle for the head and two for the body, and just sketch some red lines for the legs. I know most people prefer to sketch the outline without guidelines when spriting, but I usually struggle with that. Another way some people start their sprite is to do the colours first then the outline, but I've never understood how the hell that's even possible.

2. On a new layer, draw the outline in black and one pixel thick. I only ever draw on the top eyelid.

3. Remove the layer with the guidelines (or just hide it).

4. Fill in the base colours with the bucket tool. You decide whether you do this on a new layer or not- I just do it on the same layer to make it quicker.

5. Use the paint brush to put in the other base colours.

6. Add shading. On Pokemon sprites the light comes from the top left but if you want to do something different, feel free.

7. For each colour, get two darker shades. These will be your lineart colours. If it helps, put them to the side of the sprite.
Colour over the lineart with the darkest colour- I colour all the lineart, but most people leave the darkest bits black.

8. Get the lighter colour and highlight the areas that the light hits.

9. I always put a white outline around my sprites, but that's optional.

Remember to save as a PNG- never JPEG!

So yeah. Here's my sprite tutorial. It probably wasn't very helpful (I'm terrible at explaining stuff ), but I think it'll give beginners a general idea on how to sprite.

If you use this to help you, please let me know in the comments.
Feel free to ask any questions ^^

The Fakemon here is *Hyou-ka 's fire starter Tiburnt. You can see my completed sprite here- [link] , and the original artwork here- [link] .

Description
Well, a lot of people have wanted a sprite tutorial, so here it is!
Obviously there are loads of ways to sprite and this is just my own, but I'm sure it'll help you getting started.
You can sprite on pretty much any painting program- from Photoshop to MS Paint, it reall doesn't matter what you use. I use Corel Paint Shop Pro but that's only because it's the only one I have.

1. Open a new 96x96 canvas, and make sure your brush and eraser are both size 1 with a hardness of 100.
Use a red (255 red, 0 blue, 0 green) circle for the head and two for the body, and just sketch some red lines for the legs. I know most people prefer to sketch the outline without guidelines when spriting, but I usually struggle with that. Another way some people start their sprite is to do the colours first then the outline, but I've never understood how the hell that's even possible.

2. On a new layer, draw the outline in black and one pixel thick. I only ever draw on the top eyelid.

3. Remove the layer with the guidelines (or just hide it).

4. Fill in the base colours with the bucket tool. You decide whether you do this on a new layer or not- I just do it on the same layer to make it quicker.

5. Use the paint brush to put in the other base colours.

6. Add shading. On Pokemon sprites the light comes from the top left but if you want to do something different, feel free.

7. For each colour, get two darker shades. These will be your lineart colours. If it helps, put them to the side of the sprite.
Colour over the lineart with the darkest colour- I colour all the lineart, but most people leave the darkest bits black.

8. Get the lighter colour and highlight the areas that the light hits.

9. I always put a white outline around my sprites, but that's optional.

Remember to save as a PNG- never JPEG!

So yeah. Here's my sprite tutorial. It probably wasn't very helpful (I'm terrible at explaining stuff ), but I think it'll give beginners a general idea on how to sprite.

If you use this to help you, please let me know in the comments.
Feel free to ask any questions ^^

The Fakemon here is *Hyou-ka 's fire starter Tiburnt. You can see my completed sprite here- [link] , and the original artwork here- [link] .