T.O.M from Toonami!

It's not too bad, but a little shading on the screen would make it better.

Cheated and used a gradient to get an idea of how I should shade it. Expect an actual shaded version soon.

Nice.

Attempted to shade, and I'm really not too happy with this.

It's good.

WAAAY too gradient.

Try to define a light source, before all else.

I'm not a "professional" spriter, but I would've shaded not with a gradient, but with a radial type shade toward the upper left of the screen

Dunno if that makes sense to you or not

other than that, the sprite is pretty cool, I feel like using it for something

Well, have I permission to do a quick shading tutorial with your GB?

Sure! I need all the help I can get.

I quickly whipped up this.



But yes, you'd probably want a more rounded shading on the screen, something like the example I put, and probably try and shade the main body of it as well.

Too much pillow shading. And that screen look rounds, which isn't the case.

So, here is a quick tut...
With the picture of a Gameboy :

And a revamped sprite of a Gameboy (Keep it, it's a gift) :


When spriting, what you need the most is a light source :
(Mine is here)


It's where the light comes from. Darker parts will always be away from the light source, and lighter parts closer to it.
Here I actually shaded the grey part around the screen (And turned that damn Gameboy on :3) :


Now magic happens, and life was given to this GB, still following the same basic mechanics. I maybe gave it a bit too much details in the lettering and the screen and all <<' :


(Game on screen : Wario Land 3, even if it's a GBC game)

Thanks! I'll keep all of that in mind.

I threw this together in 2 minutes to give to Det, and I honestly might as well fix up everything to turn it into a good sprite.

Right now my main issue is the palette for shading, to be perfectly honest. Any ideas?