My Sprite Shop

[bulbaboy]

Well here i am with this topic so just request criticise and ask if you wanna help me.I can do any of the following below in the menu


[glow=red,2,300]THE MENU[/glow]



green=perfect at these sprites
orange=i am alright but aint that good with thesered=it is gonna be terrible so just dont request

siasme
holograms
whirlpools
Steelified
spectrum
MIXESRECOLOURS
POKEMON WORD BANNERS(basiclly words out of pokemon
INFERNOS
ANIMATIONS
TYPE CHANGE
R/S TO EMERALD TO LF/FR ANIMATIONS
SCRATCHES

These are on my neighbors computer because my mom has gone boozing tonight(well most weekends)

I cant be bothered to make examples so just request(sorry they will all be either JPEG or GIF)

So request away!

The example's above well the ones I aint done are to long to make oh and i probably will be goin' somewhere tommorow

[BonzaiRob]

I don't think it's fair to say you're a great sprite artist, and then only do recolours and fusions. Anyone who's ever dabbled in sprites can do those.

[bulbaboy]

yes but i dont and my sprites are really good quaility but there is a really large variety of sprites there too!

[Tropiuslover]

If you don't post a sample of your work we can't judge your work.

[BonzaiRob]

Also, giving people JPEGs of sprites kind of shows how inexperienced you are. JPEGs do bad things to sprites, you should offer either GIFs or PNGs.
Go on then, as an example, do me a Charizard with Salamence's wings, but the same colour as Charizard's wings (not red).

[bulbaboy]

uh ok then so on my waiting list i have


MIX:Charizard/Salamence wings


my laptop what i use is windows millenium and it is too slow for me to upgrade to Vista and XP


Examples will be up soon and i made this brilliant picture for my avatar but it isnt there

[bulbaboy]

uh I forgot to tell you that i left the colours of the inferno Voltorb in the top left corner of the sprite

[Tropiuslover]

How many time does it takes to do a simple fusion?

[bulbaboy]

about 5-10 mins^__^yeah its quite easy acctually i trained at www.freewebs.com/howtosprite(that was a link)

[Tropiuslover]

I ask it because it takes you to do it more than a week.

[bulbaboy]

I dont understand what the request is,is it a mix or a recolour

[Tropiuslover]

He wants a charizard body and salamence wings, but he wants the wings to me in charizard's color.

[bulbaboy]

ok then I'm on it

[bulbaboy]

here you go it salamences wings recoloured ascharizards belly sorry about the picture through the writing
CREDIT BULBABOY IF YOU USE IT!

[BonzaiRob]

I meant the blue colour of Charizard's wings, but it doesn't matter

[bulbaboy]

I can redo it if you like

[Tropiuslover]

I don't want to offened you, but it looks growse.

[bulbaboy]

*cry*Heartbreaking*cry*dont matter I dont like it that much myself

[BonzaiRob]

You shouldn't just give up on a piece you don't like. If you want to get god at spriting, you need to always be working on pieces you don't like until you do like them

[Gale]

bonzairob said:

You shouldn't just give up on a piece you don't like. If you want to get god at spriting, you need to always be working on pieces you don't like until you do like them

A very good point. The best spriters get much of their talent from loads of practice. The more you do it, the better you'll get.

Some tips to help you improve:

You seem to be pretty good at splice-spriting. I would try practicing a little more with that. Do as many as it takes for you to feel like you have a handle on the art style.

Once you're confident you've got that part down, take a Pokemon and start adding custom-drawn parts, like wings to Magmar or something. When you're making custom parts, do your best to match the rest of the body of the Pokemon, or whatever it is you happen to be drawing. Keep light source and the shades of colors you're using consistent throughout.

When you're drawing anything custom, zoom in on the image and do it pixel by pixel. I know this sounds tedious, but it makes it flow a lot better, and you will have a lot less erasing to do when things don't come out exactly right.

Once you've got all that down, really study some of the sprites made by the professionals. Look at how they are shaded, the range of colors they use, etc. After you've done that, start to make your own full-customs, following the patterns and ideas you learned.

[Tropiuslover]

To gale: +1 karma, same reason as BuffyBoy's.

Also, spectrums and siamese take 1 second to do, so they can do it alone. Doing such simple things will attract no requests.

[bulbaboy]

oh well these spectrums do take a while since its fullly coloured but it is easy once im onto it and animations are cool they take a while and could you explain what karma is

[Tropiuslover]

With PSP (Paint Shop Pro), you can do it in I second. Windows Paint is awful.

Karma is like fate.

[Gale]

I'm not sure how to do it, but you can recolour in seconds on MSPaint as well. I have it saved on my other computer. . .which is 100 miles away from me right now. D:

But yes, if you're going to sprite, I'd recommend getting a real graphics program. If you don't want to spend money, I would recommend you go to www.gimp.org/ , which is a free program that will allow you much more freedom than MSPaint will, and is much more specialized. If you're unsure how to use it, either PM me (or I'm sure some of the other members have discovered this wondeful freeware), or you can read tutorials right from the website.

[bulbaboy]

sorry but i cant be botherd to download that GIMP thing but MSpaint is the worlds wonder to me thats all I ever use to make sprites (exept GIF,photoshop and photoimppresion)they are all saints to me but MSpaint is god to me!LOL!Thanks for the ideas though so uh thats all I had to say