(12-01-2014, 05:37 PM)Zadaben Wrote:(Updated with a shiny new drill
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I made an edit of one of your sprites
he's a neat little bugger with a nice, simple design, nice work
Okay so, first thing's first, when spriting it's important to keep your colors in check, not only does a sprite appear more clean when it has less colors, it becomes easier to manage and animate, because you can manage your colors more easily. Secondly, it's important that the difference between each color is enough so that they don't blend into each other so much that you can't even see the shading, so high contrast is essential. Additionally, it's generally not ideal to make lighter/darker shades just by sliding up and down the ramp, there is a technique that Eman can tell you all about called hueshifting, where you change colors across the spectrum as you go from dark to light or vice versa, there are resources here on that so I won't get too detailed, but it's something you should definitely look into.
Another thing I changed in my edit was the light source, you didn't have a very clear one, the legs and eye were lit from our left and the drill was lit from the right. I chose to shade the entire thing from the left.
You're doing some good work, but you should slow down a bit and sprite one thing at a time, it doesn't have to be this drill bug guy, but try picking one thing to work on before hurrying to make more sprites.
It's beautiful! haha Yeah I am trying to keep the colors at a minimum but yeah the colors were very close to eachother. Hueshifting huh? Well I draw in mspaint vista and yeah I just use the slider up and down, do you mean go left and right into another color? I'll look into it thanks
Also yeah, I did kind of rush on some stuff, my friend is programming and wanted a lot of sprites so I made as many as I could. I'll give them a little more care. Yeah you made the colors pop quite a bit, when I started I wasn't sure if I wanted to make such a bold difference but from your example I like it, I'll probably have to overhaul a lot of my sprites now though. How many colors should I stick to for a basic clean style? I am using 4-5. Thanks a lot btw, been hoping to get some advice like this :]
Edit: Also is there any faster ways to do these things with programs, I mean I pretty much only use mspaint vista, but I have photoshop and graphics gale at my disposal.