(12-22-2013, 09:03 PM)Sketchasaurus Wrote: I can't overstate the importance of developing solid drawing skills:
Instead of limiting yourself to a single style, try drawing from life and plenty of references. An understanding of how objects and living creatures function in life will only further help you artistically.
I also noticed that a lot of the colors are the highly saturated primary colour defaults and the shades are simply darker tones of the same colour: my advice is to avoid these things. A rule of thumb that I like to follow while shading is: the more shadow there is, the cooler the colour. by "cooler" I mean as it pertains to colour temperature (Warm/cool colours) This kind of thing is also referred to as Hue shifting here.
I'd definitely suggest having a look at the Spriting Dictionary Topic in this forum.
Yeah, most of the colours on most sprites were the same colour with different contrasts. I don't usually put the like let's say ocean blue for dark blue for some sprites. But I totally didn't use reference from life or other sources. Not really artistic for me huh? ^^;
Also, thanks for suggesting the spriting dictionary and it kinda helped me a lot. I could try to start small though I'm more worried how I should start it with. Also, if that's ok, I kinda need someone to critic me on the red snake because that's the only custom one I did.