Quote from: Mizuho on June 07, 2014, 11:03:21 pm

don't give up hurumi!

you just need to make a lot of pencil and paper draws before to run on a digital paper.

I think that you may need to copy sprites that you want to make. take those from blablue. copy them. trace them...

use the curve line and straight line

I think you can do nice things! 

They have a point. It takes a lot of practice for those BlazBlue spriters.

Point is, I suggest referencing some first //like what I did with my non pixel art :p//
That way, you have a sense of anatomy and all the basics. Remember, your body isn't made out of weird, random, solid shapes. It's a three-dimensional masterpiece made out of cylinders and spheres. Make sure your light source is consistent (no pillow shading plz) and your anatomy theoretically correct.

Just some tips from a new pixel artist, what do i even know.

don't give up hurumi!

you just need to make a lot of pencil and paper draws before to run on a digital paper.

I think that you may need to copy sprites that you want to make. take those from blablue. copy them. trace them...

use the curve line and straight line

I think you can do nice things! 

Yes I can do that but I don't often draw traditionally often. I mostly work in digital with Paint Tool Sai with the binary tool. I know it just the type of spriting that blazblue has it what I'm really after. If I try to draw smaller I'm not happy about it.  You basically mean trace over the sprite? That what I did but I did not use the curve tool and line tool so should I use those instead? This was the last sprite I was working on the other day I stopped working on it after I learn my drawing was not still sprite form but as they say high res pencil drawing. I don't want to give up because it something I really wanna do just dunno how to achieve it.  Also can you tell me what is pillow shading? I am trying to learn how to shade better but still a way to get good shading.

You're drawing a lot of things without volume and the shape makes them look very flat.
It's your left brain is telling you that things are flat, but you should listen to your right brain instead.
You need to consider perspective and how to achieve depth. This is much more important than learning anatomy as it involves thinking in 3D.

You should try to make smaller sprites, cause this is still just pencil drawing not pixel art. Mizuho's pixels are placed carefully, yours is just free hand drawing.

I was making smaller sprites but there was not the type I was going for. The way Mizuho was doing was what I was going for I  guess I told I had it right but I did not. Oh well seems like lots of different views. Both anatomy and perspective are things that hard for me to do and I'm trying to learn both.

Did the sprites based on Mizuho was able to do it. This is the kind of spriting I want to be able to attain. Yes there are mistakes like the left arm was trying to get it right but couldn't and the feet. This was also based on a reference that I can remember to located. Was using a pixel tutorial earlier but stop due to not understand it. I was for the most part but it was not coming out like the image. So this was done on my own I will probably try another tutorial again.

Thanks I will check out some of these tutorial and I seen that deviantart who does lackadaisy story it is really awesome.