tennisisawesome said:
I tried to fix the outline with the pencil tool.
Is that better? I'm a little worried about the ear's outline, but other than that is it decent for my first sprite? :naughty: (obviously it's an entire scratch... )
I'm not sure that you understand the concept of scratching. When you scratch, you start on a blank canvas, and not with a resized image. That's the origin of basically everything that is wrong with this sprite.
First off, you have sizing issues. I'm aware that it fits in an 80x80 canvas, but I'm also under the impression that it isn't really supposed to appear larger than all of the other existing Pokémon. Certainly, some of the larger Pokémon must be scaled down in order to fit in an 80x80 canvas, but smaller Pokémon like this rarely, if ever, touch the edges of said canvas.
I would suggest beginning with a blank canvas (MS Paint works quite well, and I prefer it to The GIMP or even Paint.NET) and making the
whole sprite by hand, one pixel at a time, using perhaps Ambipom as a reference for size.
Lastly, your coloring needs some work. Never, ever use gradients like you did (I couldn't care less if you didn't intend for it to appear that way; it does). If you like D/P/P coloring, use one base color, one highlight color, one shadow color, and one outline color for main body colors; for body colors that are less prominent, you can use one highlight color, one shadow color, and one outline color. Remember to put the outline colors on parts of the outline that would be hit directly by the light source. Black can typically go everywhere else.
I hope these pointers can give you (and anyone else who might be interested in scratching) some much needed help so that even if you decide not to redo this scratch, you'll be a few steps ahead of where you were your first try. If you have any questions, PM me.
