i'm trying my hand at customs now. Here is a recent one:
Not bad for your first custom (which i'm assuming it is). However if you animate these they are a bit choppy, make more frames/make the animations smoother.
it sorta is. I sorta used the Paper Mario Swooper as a refrence, so i'll look at it a bit more, as well as the other swooper sprites.
Ya misspelled idle. The nose is pretty jagged, too.
I'm not so pleased of the shape of the ears, and of the shading. Maybe you could stick in an intermediate shade? The eyes seem a strange shape and I interpreted the nose as a beak at first, which I think is due to the nose's shape: I would get rid of its outline actually. Anyway, I'm looking forward to progress!
Which eyes do you mean? closed, angry, or opened? The shading is something i'm sorta used to, but i can try a diffrent type and the nose and ears are going to get fixed soon.
Sorry for the double post, but i've fixed up the way Swooper looks like:
Wings should be wider and the ears should be touching.