After being tutored by Qui, I made a better PA (sword hilt done by Qui):


My first stage created: SSBB's Bridge of Eldin (it's not complete yet)


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Here is a Kirby/Sonic idle edit I made:
(First time editing sprites and animating. I don't know why the picture size is so big...)



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Animated using Adobe Illustrator (Yeah, I know, weird choice of an animator but these government laptops don't run programs that are not installed on the laptop.)

And here's a drawing of Knuckles I did on Paint (its not traced >_>)


Comments and critics please. (So I can improve on my sprite works, and I know that the shading is a bit off in the Kirby edit.)

Hahaha, I love the Sonikirby sprite so much.

Right there with yah, it's just awesome.
The Knux drawing has a little too few shades of each colour, but I guess that's the best paint can do while still makeing it look natural.

I'm really glad that that isn't Sonichu.

Anyway, the Knuckles Pixelart looks really good. You used the pixel art tutorial oevr at Mystery forest Zone?

Yeah, the Knuckles drawing has too less shades because when I tried adding more shades, it didn't turn out to good (look at the green cuffs on his shoes). So I left it simple and clean.


Well, I didn't use any tutorials for the pixel art (but I did take one for sprite editing which was how to do a simple palette swap on Paint). When I was drawing Knuckles, I usually do a not-so-perfect sketch on the body part I was currently drawing. Then I would perfect the drawing and start working on some other part. For his fists, I used the shape tool to draw a perfect circle (as a guide) and then added detail to it, erasing the guide lines after I was done (I did the same to the shape of his chest). Also, notice that his dreadlocks are not curved like the one on the left. Plus his shoe size isn't exactly the same shape as the one on the left :/ I was going to colour him in last but ended up colouring him in as I go...

Go here if you want to see how I drew Knuckles (its a bit big...):
http://i39.tinypic.com/16gbrcz.png

I really like that Sonikirby =] good job

It looks soo...(dude translation) Awesome!!

Update, did I improve my shading slightly? I'm not done drawing him tho :/

All I can say is...wow.

I'm almost done drawing another version of Zero but I need to correct any mistakes/faulty details before I colour him in. So... comments and critiques? And maybe, if you can, help me by answering those 3 questions in the first post?

Looks great. Most of the proportions are spot-on.

1. Make the index go further up and to the right into his hand, it will tighten his grip.
2. You've got a lot of options here. You can easily draw it straight on and then shear, resize, and clean up, but that might not give quite the effect you're going for, because his shoulder pad is angled slightly upward.
I'd suggest drawing "horizontal" (as in at the same angle as the bottom line of the front face of the shoulder pad) lines through the shoulder blade at the parts where the Z's top and bottom limits are. Then I'd draw the yellow object straight on somewhere else on your picture, then make it smaller horizontally by removing a couple vertical lines. Because the upward angle is really small, you can either leave it as is or remove/add one or two pixels from the top/bottom sections.
After that, it should be a lot easier to draw the curved lines on the other sections.
3. Paint doesn't have a rotate tool, does it? Because you could draw the ellipse and the shear it I suppose. There are no other easy ways though.

Mega bump, finished my PA!



Alright, thanks a lot (and Paint unfortunately doesn't have a rotating tool D:) I've done what you suggested and it looks great now ^^

Now if only I could get some comments and critique on this 2 week project I'll be happy =/

Left green orbs lineart needs some work, not very orb like. Left foot isn't nearly as pointy as the right, even with the angle. Other than that it basically looks traced =/ no offence.

Orb can't be done properly cause Paint doesn't have a rotating tool to make it elliptical and it does look traced because I would copy my outline of Zero and then paste it on top of the original (with the background set to transparent) and then I would correct any mistakes I made, resulting in a near-traced version of the original (also no offense taken xD). I'm working more on my shading ATM than the actual line art, then I'll start trying to draw without looking at an original picture as a guide. How's the shading?

You got the shading done very nicely
But with what G0L3M said, it's nothing but traced art.. However, I kind of find it executed near to perfection because most of those who trace it sometimes kind of suck at it but you got the shading and the lineart part really really good
Nice job