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A sprite w/ tutorial, as requested by DonMungMung. Yeah!

Well, I was going to do Sailor Moon or B. Orchid from Killer Instinct, but then I thought, "People don't want long-legged, big-breasted women. No, what people want is a blue-faced guy from an obscure Canadian TV show".

Ha ha, it's a sprite of a sprite - how awesome.

Colour Commentary
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1) Hand-drawn picture. I do this mainly because I don’t have a tablet and I don’t like drawing large sprites by mouse if I can help it. I imagine the best thing would be to use a tablet. Then I copy the picture to the iDraw program to reduce the colour count to 3 or 4 blueish colours so it’s easy to trace over. I then copy that picture back to MS Paint where I proceed to go to town.

2) Trace over hand-drawn picture. Great fun.

3) Use the Eraser Tool (right click) to clear away the blueish colours.

See this? Don’t do like me. I’m thoroughly unprofessional: I drew a crappy picture by hand and followed it up with crappy line art. Don’t do that. Try to make sure by the line art stage that the picture looks decent, more or less like the final product, so that you don’t have to fiddle with it as you go along. That probably would’ve saved me steps 6 to 13. But whatever – I’m not bitter.

4) Now’s when the fun begins. Fill in the colours: all flat tones, noting ambitious. .

5) Now I introduce some shades. You can see I’ve already began making my palette.
Hey! Let’s actually try to adhere to the 16-colour rule today. Now, I don’t know about you, but I’ve always myself harboured a love-hate relationship with the 16-colour limit. I mean, on the one hand, it makes for a great challenge – pixel art requires that you know what you’re at, and the 16-colour thing epitomizes that. On the other hand…it’s 16 lousy colours! Come on!

6) Fix the eyes a little and adjust his torso and legs so that he doesn’t look like an off-center Dudley Do-Right.

Description
A sprite w/ tutorial, as requested by DonMungMung. Yeah!

Well, I was going to do Sailor Moon or B. Orchid from Killer Instinct, but then I thought, "People don't want long-legged, big-breasted women. No, what people want is a blue-faced guy from an obscure Canadian TV show".

Ha ha, it's a sprite of a sprite - how awesome.

Colour Commentary
________________________

1) Hand-drawn picture. I do this mainly because I don’t have a tablet and I don’t like drawing large sprites by mouse if I can help it. I imagine the best thing would be to use a tablet. Then I copy the picture to the iDraw program to reduce the colour count to 3 or 4 blueish colours so it’s easy to trace over. I then copy that picture back to MS Paint where I proceed to go to town.

2) Trace over hand-drawn picture. Great fun.

3) Use the Eraser Tool (right click) to clear away the blueish colours.

See this? Don’t do like me. I’m thoroughly unprofessional: I drew a crappy picture by hand and followed it up with crappy line art. Don’t do that. Try to make sure by the line art stage that the picture looks decent, more or less like the final product, so that you don’t have to fiddle with it as you go along. That probably would’ve saved me steps 6 to 13. But whatever – I’m not bitter.

4) Now’s when the fun begins. Fill in the colours: all flat tones, noting ambitious. .

5) Now I introduce some shades. You can see I’ve already began making my palette.
Hey! Let’s actually try to adhere to the 16-colour rule today. Now, I don’t know about you, but I’ve always myself harboured a love-hate relationship with the 16-colour limit. I mean, on the one hand, it makes for a great challenge – pixel art requires that you know what you’re at, and the 16-colour thing epitomizes that. On the other hand…it’s 16 lousy colours! Come on!

6) Fix the eyes a little and adjust his torso and legs so that he doesn’t look like an off-center Dudley Do-Right.