Help me guys......

[EvilRaccoon9]

The biggest thing for me when I first started spriting was to take an art style you want to replicate and then copy it. It'll teach you things like style, work flow and colour palette. I copied Megaman X style sprites for a long time and when I tried to make a sprite without any base or reference it was a lot more natural and I had a sense of what I wanted to do (albeit, it was still terrible )

In regards to your sprite the most important thing to consider when creating a character is its silhouette. Imagine if that sprite you had there was completely black. How easy is it to read/tell what it is? Forget any colour or shading and work primarily with shapes. You can mold the pose and shape your character takes using distinct, flat colours and then once you got the base down you can then consider the light source to dictate shading. The common rule of thumb is that the light source always comes from the upper right hand corner.

Hope that helps!

Thanks Kopaka!

I am thinking to add a tail since he is a raccoon. However, he is a humanoid raccoon..... would that be all right to add a tail? and is he's pose alright? BTW those 2 are my works and I didn't seem to get the "replicate the art style" thingy-wingy...... Anyway ,thanks again Kopaka!
that "if your character was in the dark" thing really helps!!

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Hi Guys!

This isn't any update on my sprite but I would just like to thank everyone who supported me with my TFR version of EvilRaccoon. Why did I mention this suddenly? 'cause I saw my first EvilRaccoon attempt you see.....

I know.... my last update of EvilRaccoon isn't perfect but you sure can pretty much see the drastic change. right?
I would like to give thanks to everyone specially to Meta,-Bwar-,Baegal,Mighty Jetters,Shadow Kami,Ploaj,Goemar and Sevenstitch! I'll update soon!