What is an ideal height for more-detailed sprites?

[jcongerkallas1]

I created the sprites by scaling down some unused digital painting character concepts that were on my computer.  I then attempted to create a pixelated layer over the blurry image template.  Needless to say that wasn't the best method for producing clean edges or colors. 

I didn't know there was a pixel resize tool.

[Jehannum]

well I presume most art software has resize options like bicubic, smart size, pixel resize, bilinear and weighted average. I use pixel resize for pixel projects and bicubic for everything else.