12-06-2010, 08:48 PM
I'd just like to chime in by saying that I first learned how to sprite by doing a shitload of edits, before I finally grasped the concepts of stuff like depth, color usage, palette creation, etc. If I hadn't started off with learning by editing I probably would have permanently quit the profession a long time ago, because I prefer to progressively learn through action, rather than reading a bunch of paragraphs.