05-13-2009, 02:40 AM
allow me to say, but tI really feel that the only "custom" thing in that whole list is indeed doctor and maloa. the rest are a bunch of MSPaint edited/recolored JUS sprites with added copy/recolored/pasted FXs. (silver hood for example is an horrible pillowshaded edit wich really shows your true skills behind using the JUS sprites as a base for the anatomy).
despite my total and completely personal disgust for edited/recolored sprites -not saying they're crap, but i'd always put someone who took the risk of starting from ground zero over someone who just edits already existing sprites-, from what i could see on those two things you draw by hand, you have a lot to learn in terms of proper and basic shading and anatomy(plenty tutorials on the net to start from). it has been said already that using the default MSpaint colors wouldnt do you any favor since they're pretty much horrible for anything thats not specifically suposed to be made with those hypersaturated colors. along with those lines, avoid as much as posible using the line and circle tool from MSPaint too, since they would only turn your character into a weird tubuluar and unnatural stickman that would only suck monkey balls. even though, the line tool can be handy sometimes(the pen tool is a bitch, lets face it), just use it with smaller strokes just in the same way you would sketch a character in a paper so you can make more curved and flowing lines in order to define your characters's shape more easily.
i tried to not sound rude and harsh, but i really wouldn't try to call those things custom at all, specially when the only custom thing in them is basically nothing.
despite my total and completely personal disgust for edited/recolored sprites -not saying they're crap, but i'd always put someone who took the risk of starting from ground zero over someone who just edits already existing sprites-, from what i could see on those two things you draw by hand, you have a lot to learn in terms of proper and basic shading and anatomy(plenty tutorials on the net to start from). it has been said already that using the default MSpaint colors wouldnt do you any favor since they're pretty much horrible for anything thats not specifically suposed to be made with those hypersaturated colors. along with those lines, avoid as much as posible using the line and circle tool from MSPaint too, since they would only turn your character into a weird tubuluar and unnatural stickman that would only suck monkey balls. even though, the line tool can be handy sometimes(the pen tool is a bitch, lets face it), just use it with smaller strokes just in the same way you would sketch a character in a paper so you can make more curved and flowing lines in order to define your characters's shape more easily.
i tried to not sound rude and harsh, but i really wouldn't try to call those things custom at all, specially when the only custom thing in them is basically nothing.