just something i'm working on..

[StarSock64]

Such as with 'pillow shading'. You all seem to treat it as a negative thing, here. I could be wrong, but pillow shading has its uses, and have have very positive results.

If by positive results, you mean "filler to make something look finished when I don't know how to shade something in a way that makes sense." Pillow shading is not how light and shadow work in real life, so it looks wrong, incorrect, that "something's off here but I can't figure out what it is" itch in the back of your neck. It doesn't look stylistic, either: it's just a common amateur mistake. It's not positive results by a longshot.

Allow me to clear something up, before I go any further. I've had to learn everything I know on my own. I have never had help, and there were no college courses to take on the subject. So everything you see in my sprite work has come from 11 or more years of figuring it out for myself.

I suggest learning how to look up resources you can read from and asking for help from artists that are better than you, because nothing stunts your growth more than being a hermit. There's like, thousands of years of knowledge from people learning what makes good art good, and if you don't try to find it or can't find it, you're just putting yourself at a severe disadvantage and will never reach your potential! There's only so much you can figure out yourself. And you don't need college courses because you have the internet (I'm pretty far off from being an art major myself). tSR itself currently doesn't have the best resources to learn from, but...there's definitely stuff out there.

As it stands, I believe that you cannot fix my sprite work without ruining it. Prove me wrong. I would love to be wrong.

I'm not knowledgeable enough to be really good at sprites this size but I'm interested in trying
(It might take awhile though because big sprites take forever)