A Place for new Spriters

[Alpha Six]

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.

hi i did a shitload of edits then people shown me how shit they were then started to work on my own until i finally develop a proper skill. i didn't read s single paragraph in the process but instead took the general "post wip, ask for help"

your point?

hi i did a shitload of edits

This is my point, dear.

A lot of us started out on edits, which is why I don't really approve of this "edits are the devil" mentality.

And yes I do realize that people are saying that there are "edits" and then there's "talentless bullshit." I'm not arguing that, I'm just saying a lot of us started on edits and that's kind of how we got where we are today.