You're going to have trouble shading if you keep it at that angle. Shading flat objects at a flat angle is hard.
I suggest using Isometric perspective.

Hmm, alright.

Gave up on the mailtruck in hopes of starting something really good and fresh.



Ladies and gentlemen, if you don't know who this is, it's T.O.M 1, the second host of Toonami. I still need to finish his arms, and thicken his legs up a bit, so that he looks a lot less like a chicken, but for a half hour's work, I think this is pretty good.

Quick update: Uhh, final, I guess??? I'm feel the arm is a little bit too blocky, so I might change it.

Tom? He looks a little......I can't say but he looks younger.... Anyways watch that line art.

Yeah, it was his original design. Very short and chubby. I'll be sure about the line art, it was one of the issues I had when I was spriting him.

Get the lineart straight before starting with colours imo.

I sprited it piece by piece, starting with the feet, and then I would color it in.

Yo arthur you need to make a spritesheet of him when you get him all fixed up, looks nice tho.

I'm going to mostly focus on making single frame sprites for a long time, thanks though!

No prob

Tom is made of metal so you're going to need to use colors in a special sorta way.

Yeah, true.

Here's the reference I used in full-size, by the way. The one by the sprite itself was mostly for choosing colors.

I'd suggest gathering more reference if possible.

Alright, thanks!

Practice on shading, the middle looks so messed up because of how I got lazy and made the lines of darkened colors MUCH larger. The yellow X is my light source, for anybody wondering.



How can I improve my shading? I seriously want to get it fixed up before I make another sprite.

That, and a couple suggestions for how to get started on line-art for a much larger sprite.