That is a nice tut cnp

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Often times, I find a good idea to do the following:

Do you have a horribly bad looking sprite that you absolutely hate to no end?

Not a problem!

With a few steps, you can get right back into sprite working with a new sprite that is guarenteed to look better!

Step 1: Find a sprite

First, find one of your sprites. Any sprite that looks even remotely good will do. As long as the sprite looks like it can be modified by completely overhauling it but still keeping the basic shape, it should be fine.

Step 2: Outlining

Now, resize your pile of crap to the desired size. It will get distorted from the size change, but that doesn't matter.

Now, go to the line tool, and pick a color that stands out the most from the colors of the sprite. This will be used for the outlining process.

Now, begin to outline the shape of the figure, making any modifications to the outline as desired. Eventually, just remove all of the color except for that outline, and change it to black. You now have a completed outline.

If the outline isn't looking too well, just remember that it is an outline, and thus it is easy to modify. Feel free to continue to modify the outline until the desired shape of the figure shows.

Step 3: Coloring

Most sprites have about 3 different colors, of 3 to 5 shades. These shades should be made so that they show a visible difference between them from 1x. Now, take the middle shades of each color and apply them to the sections of the sprite that the color will appear in.

Step 4: Shading

First off, choose a light source.
Then, depending on where the light source is, apply the lighter and darker textures on the closest and furthest parts of each area, respectively. Keep adjusting the shading to suit your needs.

Now, take the black outline of the figure and fill in the areas bordered by light regions of color with the next color below the lightest shade of said color, and leave the darkest regions with a black border. Fill in the borders in between with the medium shades.

Now step back, and behold your new creation!

Be sure to keep the outline, unless you aren't planning on making more than a single sprite.

I made this to help people, lol. Not the best but can still help.

1 MEGABYTE FILESIZE PL0X

Is it OK if I just give a link to it instead? As it is, it's too small to read.
EDIT: Nevermind, even when I take the link, it's too small to read.
Put it up on Tinypic, then give me the URL.

Or he could change the max filesize for Photobucket uploads to 1 Megabyte.

Whatever works, as long as I can read it, so I can decide whether or not to put it in the first post.

it's too small.

This better?

Umm... I'm assuming the topic title means I can request, in which case, can somebody please make a tutorial on hair? I can never do it, now matter how hard I try ;-;

Hmm. OK.

That, and the topic title was meant to actually get people to post tutorials...

Heres a Tutorial from AbyssWolf,

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Did you use Photobucket to make that picture? Because Photobucket kills picture sizes and quality. Use imageshack. It does shrink pictures. You cam ke it as large as you want.

Is that 'Tales of' style?