Frogger's art. Possible UMC story art.

[Dixie]

As far as from-scratch goes, I think your shapes and shades are good, but (I know, you don't really plan to use them) if you plan to use any scratch-made sprites someday, you really have to work on the size. Was one of my biggest concern with my firt sprite, too, since everything must be so compressed and anatomical proportions are wrong. What I do is draw measures on the left side of the frame: about 55-56 pixels from the top are the base of the feet, 40 pixels would be around the waist, 30 pixels, the base of the neck, 28, the shoulders and 18, the top of the head. That'd be for an average standing lv1 human-sized unit, anyway. And for each subsequent levels, you can raise the head so to have one more pixel in the torso and one more in the legs. I'm not saying that's the absolute truth, but it's working for me so far and I find it useful. I'll attach you a model, if it interests you.

Also, I always draw my sprites facing left, with light coming from top left, since for some reason I am totally unable to draw anything of worth facing right. I flip them when they're about finished ...

[Fog]

Ooh! This one has a lot of potential! Make sure you use highlights, right now you have the darker shades, but not the upper half.

[Zerovirus]

Oooh, massive improvement. I think you've been looking at references, no?

[Frogger5]

Spoiler:

Yes I have. Mostly around the forums. If this is an improvement then I will probably do more work on it.

1 hour later...

Alright did some more work. Added an outstretched hand and a little chain on the cloak (thought it probably isn't necessary) and expande the highlights a little.

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[AtemTheLightning]

The sword looks flat.

[King_Elendil]

IMHO the sword does not look flat, I think it looks well done and well shaded. though I'm not an artist
This is definitely looking good !

[artisticdude]

The sword isn't flat, although it could use a bit more contrast.

[Frogger5]

The problem is, it's a flat 'plank' of metal. In reality it isn't really wide enough to have dark shadows.

[Fog]

Um, your new hand has only four fingers... On top of that it looks(I didn't check) smaller that the other.

[Frogger5]

Spoiler:

Indeed he does have four fingers. It fits into the image better but I might end up changing it anyway.

Another sprite.

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Sneaky man with a rapier and a rather pathetic feather.


Small update on my headless nastyman.

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[Gwynnedrion]

Sayajin Swordsman

He's refering to Dragonball Z where one (and later more) of the characters ascend themselves. These people are all descendants of a humanoid race called Sayans. When they ascend their hair turns yellow.

Spoiler:

OT: I like it , big fan myself.

[Frogger5]

Ahhhhhhhhhh... right

[Frogger5]

Frogger has a second fresh attempt at spriting.

Every time I look at the earlier sprites in my thread, my face looks something like this:
So, I've decided to forget the Seljjes, and have a whole new attempt at becoming a semi decent spriter.

To start off, I redid one guy, and tweaked another.

Old fella.

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New version.

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I've been trying to mix colours more, being a fan of zero's shading, I used these guys as a reference.

And I did some tweaks on my headless nastyman.

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Bring me your criticism.

[SFault]

I like the color and details, but the poses of the swordmen are ackward. The upper body could be leaning forward to keep them in balance, or the (our) left leg could be clearly behind the character and perhaps the legs could be less crouching.

The second guy's shirt looks bit pillowed and could have some texture.

And they look kinda big for Wesnothians...

[Frogger5]

OK another sprite.

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A golden dude with big az swordz.
All critique appreciated.