Shaylle's Beginner Custom Sprites

[Pik]

It seems you've improved a bit since you made that Bubbles sprite last year, which is great. Your newer sprites still use a tad too many colors, but knowing not to pillow shade is half the battle.

Let's look at those Sonic sprites you have for reference.

They accomplish a lot with a smaller color count, and clean pixeling. Make sure the shading on your sprites is sharp and noticeable. (aka contrasted)

Let's break down Sonic's color count...
Blue- 4 shades. It's the most prominent color on Sonic, so it has priority.
Skin- 3 shades. It's not as important as the blue parts, so gets less colors. Notice the reuse of white as a highlight, though. Reusing colors is smart when it comes to pixel art, so do it often.
White- 4 shades. It's pretty important like blue, and can be reused elsewhere since it's such a neutral color.
Red- 2 shades. In this case, it gets the job done with simply just two colors.

In total, this blue bitch comes down to 13 colors. Not bad. The main thing to remember is to reuse colors when possible. It's all about efficiency.