WAIT, WHAT IS GWEN DOING, GWEN YOU LITTLE SHIT

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I was wondering, do you always start your spriting off like this?

It's always a healthy exercise to build off a skeleton, even if it's a rough one, to have the position and orientation of the body parts well established. I know it's kind of a bore to dig up pose and anatomy references, but it can be really beneficial to the end product. Before diving straight into colors, you ought to have a structure so you know which direction you're headed in. You can even use some placeholder colors while you're doing that.

The character designs were pretty cool though, hope to see more of that!