Entering Spriting World

Hello OtLand! Today I've decided to start making sprites..I've been always been tempted in creating some cool items but I've never tried before, so I hope you will help me in improving my spriter skills! Here you go, my first two sprites made an hour ago I used 2 free templates I've found over the net.

You can use any sprite I post here in your server, you can edit them, rename them, do whatever you wish.
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But if you do it, please REP++ me!

I used this template of a shield..


My final work, the Ruby Shield


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I used this template of an armor..


My final work, the Blazing Armor

Looks Nice

Simoria said:

Looks Nice

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Thanks I'm not too convinced with the armor tough..

I like the shield alot.
Armor is too cartoony for my liking

Pretty good for a first go.. I would work on shading, try looking at some real sprites as examples, In your armor it looks like too much like an automatic gradient was applied, and in the red parts i can't see any shading.. Start by adding brighter highlights and more darker areas

Oh yh ans a tip don't use black lines inside a sprite as it looks weird ingame..

GhostX said:

Oh yh ans a tip don't use black lines inside a sprite as it looks weird ingame..

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O: Thanks! I'll take a look to some good tibia sprites to analyze them :B also, how can I make the armor less "cartoon" like?

Hmm i guess it is the curves and bright colours.. I had this trouble until i got used to it, try more natural darker colours and only use pale shades for reflection. Although it depends on the sprite itself.. As for the curves i guess it makes it look less aggressive?

But although what i said may make it better, you should have your own touch and style, so don't let me prevent you from doing so

They are decent nonetheless
regards

Here's my third sprite a sword! Thanks for the tips given, I hope this is better for you guys..Also, I have problems in shading a huge drawing space rather than a thin (Like the sword)..

Mercenary Blade:



And I've tried to remake the Fire Armor, I didn't improve much from it..I've modified the fire a little and changed the shape and color of the main part..

Fire Armor v1.1

Looks decent,

Blez said:

Looks decent,

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Thanks a lot Blez! I'm reading artist's shading techniques not only in sprites, in paintings and such too..So I'm trying to improve while trying to pull out my own spriting style n.n I need to practice a lot tough..

Hope you don't mind i shaded your sprite

But maybe this will give you an idea of how to shade better (if you like it that is) you can kinda compare the two and see what I did differently

Here I have the remake of the all mighty and legendary katana!



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OmfgRegister said:

Hope you don't mind i shaded your sprite

But maybe this will give you an idea of how to shade better (if you like it that is) you can kinda compare the two and see what I did differently

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Omg! Thanks for that armor! Indeed it looks impressive..I will take a look right now to check shading techniques you used..I hope I will get used to do this with time..

I use gimp it has some tools that make shading really quick and easy.. if you want i could teach you, you'd need skype or msn tho

OmfgRegister said:

I use gimp it has some tools that make shading really quick and easy.. if you want i could teach you, you'd need skype or msn tho

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I would love to, but I've to go now, here I give you my msn, [email protected]

Paint.net is better i used mspaint until i got used to shapes, and colours and even amateur shading. Then i moved to paint.net it's really nice with the use of layers, colour spectrum, and some other tools..

I'm sticked to MsPaint for now, I think it's pretty much all I need..

Here's a remake of the Serpent Sword from Cipsoft Hope you like it!

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Nice, but steer away from bright colours (unless going for reflection etc) and try to steer from colour clashes. The yellow by the blade is too bright, and i can see on the hilt you have used pillow shading ;3. It looks ok on shields but don't use it on most items..

I wish i could help you as you have great potential! I mean that! I just simply do not have the time atm.


regards & good luck

GhostX said:

Nice, but steer away from bright colours (unless going for reflection etc) and try to steer from colour clashes. The yellow by the blade is too bright, and i can see on the hilt you have used pillow shading ;3. It looks ok on shields but don't use it on most items..

I wish i could help you as you have great potential! I mean that! I just simply do not have the time atm.


regards & good luck

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You have helped me a lot with the other comments! I'll try to reshade the golden part, and that's one of my problems..don't really know how to properly shade the hilt xD

Your "Ruby Shield" looks really good man Keep it up =)