Koopalings Custom rpg sprite

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Here's an (admittedly pretty extreme) example of what I mean by hue shifting to optimize colors.

My edit is on the left (obviously) and your original is on the right.

The darkest blue shade of the hair and the darkest green of the face are so similar that at 1x scale, you can't really tell them apart. So if you can't see the difference in the colors, what's the point of having two colors?
So I hue shifted them together into one color and it still looks good.

...then I took that a step further and combined your gray and black into the same blue shade since they were more or less similar as well.


As you can see, the only place where the change is really visible is on the teeth and the claws of the toes, but even then it doesn't look bad.

You could probably take this even further and remove another or both of the green shades as well.

You won't always need to make optimizations that extreme (you could possibly keep your black, for example) but this shows you the basic point of what I was talking about.
There's no need to have so many colors if you can do the same job with less. Too many colors just complicates your sprite.

I also put it on normal, light, and dark backgrounds at the top left to show that it still looks fine on different background colors.


Anyway, since you removed the shading on the body, you'll have to put that back.
Also you've gotta get rid of the pillow shading on the hair.