i like what you did with those sinnoh leaders :3
and maylene food looks accurate :0 :3 nice

His clothes look weird. Black Mage's atual sprite on SSF2 looks better, sorry. No offense, and pretty nice tho!

Okay, the clothes do look a bit weird, I'll give you that. The hands and feet however, I think are fine. His sprite from SSF2 certainly looks a lot more battle-ready than this one. I'll try and fix that.
I'm not trying to compete with SSF2's sprite, it's just my interpretation.
The clothes are a pain because I tried to make the legs pop out. Do you have any suggestions on how I should fix his clothes? Anything else I need to fix?

I appreciate the critique.

Maybe make him less chibi and with a outline, less M.U.G.E.N. would look nice too.

What do you mean by M.U.G.E.N? And add an outline? Sure, I'll do that.

I'm not sure what you mean by chibi though. Do you mean make him a little taller and leaner?

Edit: I just looked it up,I see what you mean. I'll stick to using 3 colors for each part of Black Mage like this sprite of Naruto:


(credit to neimad for ripping the sprite)

That one uses three colors for each part of Naruto.

Here's version two for Black Mage. The clothes are a pain in the butt to get down, and I'm still not satisfied with them. I'm gonna redo it again.



Although, I do think the outline looks good. That suggestion was great! Anyways, I'm gonna go get some shuteye.

Thanks... It looks incredible! I only think that something is weird on the position of his hands and feet, don't know what. I think that the clothes are good. But if you want to change it... You decide.

The clothes are too baggy. I believe I could use the light blue to add in some more depth to the sprite instead of filling it with dark blues. It makes it look like a mess. The position's a little weird now that I look at it. If I want a good battle pose for Black Mage, I'd take the DoS version. It's more active. The eyes are also too bright. I'm gonna mix a little grey in there so it looks more natural.

But I'm glad you liked it.

Speaking of DoS, I'm playing it right now.

Edit: I figured out why his clothes are baggy; it's the lower abdomen that's the problem. Remember how I told you that I tried to make his legs pop out? That's why it's so baggy. There should be a defined position in his legs and feet, and there isn't here. It's confused.

I actually think the clothing looks fine. The only thing that I think could use to improve is to get
rid of the banding that's going on in it.
This is banding in case you don't know:

And this is how it your sprite looks without banding(left):

Thanks for the tips Fancy. I took your advice and re-did parts of the sprite to not only get rid of the banding, but to improve a couple parts

Here's version 3!:



I finally got rid of the parts of the leg that bothered me, and I ended up creating a more battle- ready pose than the previous one. Most of the banding is gone, and, that suggestion was really helpful!

What do you think? Any suggestions?

Edit: Here's a better looking one:

Looks a lot better! Good job

Thanks for the feedback, it really helped.

Anyways, should I start animating this?

Yes! I'm really excited to see your animations! Go ahead!

I would like to see a comparison

Next to SSF2's Mario and Black Mage, at original size

Uh, I'm not sure how to get the SSF2 sprites for Black Mage, and Mario???

I think I'll just pause the game and record the individual frame for the sprite.