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Relatively new to spriting, I'm using MS paint 6.1, mostly because I'm most comfortable with it.

These are all just for fun/practice. Anything you notice please bring up, but I would love shading tips in particular - especially on that damn portraits visor. When I try to put stuff in there it just looks like gloobily globbily nonsense.

Your outlines need major work before shading is addressed.
Don't use the line tool. It looks like it's all you used, come on - let's see some roundness!*

*Though no using the circle tool either.

Actually I only use the pencil tool. I might be making them overly straight out of fear of jagged lines, though.

In trying to correct one problem I probably created another....

Edit: Here's my hutt, a little more roundly as he should be.



How does that look?

it still looks bad, but at least its a step foward.

you should consider though how is suposed to be place this character in a plane. right now i feels like jabba's body is randomly curled in the air, and most of these random lines are serving no real purpose. i'd sugest placing all of his tail on a more simple, flat surface(as how we usually se jabba on the movies) so you can work on a solid base for now.

Yeah I think I was trying to put the tail behind him, like he's sitting on the base of his fat rolls. But it does curl weirdly.

Here's a new one:



And a cleaner version without all of the noise and lines:

The question is what perspective are we looking at here? It seems you're going with a top down view right? Not a sidescrolling perspective? Then Jabba's belly should be round at the bottom not a straight line.

Ah I didn't really think about that. I just started drawing. I'll have to consider that in the future before I start punching in the pixels.



Like that, right?

Edit: Yeah I think it would be top down. I can't see Jabba scrolling anywhere, frankly, without a lot of help.

Tinkered with a couple of the other ones I have up there: