02-26-2010, 02:02 PM
I started my spriting with swords, actually, much like this.
Im not much better at spriting now, but for swords, im pretty good. A piece of advice i would give you right now, is to draw a large sword, (i dunno, 10x that big?), and design that. You dont have to do any fancy shading, just basic light on one side, dark on the other. Do color it though, and give it a nice color scheme. Make sure you know what a fully detailed version would look like, (Drawing it on paper works, too), before you draw a smaller sprite. Just remember, too much detail, and the sprite will look cluttered, and dithered with random colors. This sword isnt very good at all, but im sure youll get better.
If you need an example of what im talking about, ill gladly make you one later, but i cant at the moment. If you want a simpler way to do this, ask, this is just the way i did it, and found it easy.
Im not much better at spriting now, but for swords, im pretty good. A piece of advice i would give you right now, is to draw a large sword, (i dunno, 10x that big?), and design that. You dont have to do any fancy shading, just basic light on one side, dark on the other. Do color it though, and give it a nice color scheme. Make sure you know what a fully detailed version would look like, (Drawing it on paper works, too), before you draw a smaller sprite. Just remember, too much detail, and the sprite will look cluttered, and dithered with random colors. This sword isnt very good at all, but im sure youll get better.
If you need an example of what im talking about, ill gladly make you one later, but i cant at the moment. If you want a simpler way to do this, ask, this is just the way i did it, and found it easy.