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Newbie sprites ahoy - Altrez - 09-28-2011 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. RE: Newbie sprites ahoy - Goemar - 09-28-2011 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. RE: Newbie sprites ahoy - Altrez - 09-28-2011 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? RE: Newbie sprites ahoy - Cobalt Blue - 09-28-2011 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. RE: Newbie sprites ahoy - Altrez - 09-28-2011 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: RE: Newbie sprites ahoy - Koopaul - 09-28-2011 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. RE: Newbie sprites ahoy - Altrez - 09-28-2011 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: