Tutorial: Spriting 101

Alright folks welcome to Spriting bootcamp
We'll start off with a basic editing, we'll stick with a Sonic battle: Shadow stance sprite we'll learn to change his quills accordingly I'll explain it all through here.

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Alright we start off here with our regular Shadow sprite


We'll be using Paint for this one, it's simple but a few tricks can turn your charachter into somthing like this


Now we'll bring a colour pallete to the scene


Please feel free to use the pallete I've gathered these colours over the years, so go crazy

Now we'll get to our character, we'll first pick out some colours for him


Making a colour scheme like this is always good it helps
Now we'll get to colouring him, what I like to do is use the colour picker tool then RIGHT CLICKING on the colour I want then LEFT CLICK the colour I'm replacing then use the rubber tool
then HOLD DOWN the RIGHT mouse button and run the rubber over my sprite carefully because some of the colours you want go into the wrong places like the same white used in the gloves is the same white used in the shoes



And here is the end result

Now to redesign our character, lets bring all the other folk to the stage


We'll be using Super sonic, Hyper sonic and regular sonic to create ourselves a set of quills here to change our shadow a bit


There we have made a simple set of quills now we will go and replace shadows old ones with these new ones
First remove the quills to a decent point where the new quills can sit properly


Then place the new quills on shadow



There doesn't that look better?
Now to add some originality lets give him some clothes, how about the classic jacket with undershirt and baggy pants huh?
Now to do this you'll have to draw it yourself it's simple enough though, LEFT CLICK the brightest of the colours that will be your pants for instance then draw them onto your character


Now that doesn't look so great does it? No now we'll shade these clothings, get the darker colours and then follow these steps



Shade around the edges with your second darkest colours


Now place the darkest colours on the very edge of your clothing



There now doesn't that look nice?
Hope this helped you learn how to make a basic character, experiment a little, use other characters body parts like their eyes, bangs, ears, legs, arms, hands and feet, experimenting will help you discover new ways to sprite
good luck out there

Awesome.
And with basic software such as paint 0_0
Very impressive.. :)
I'm sure this'll be helpful to many.

Great work, t5in

And as kar just said, it's great that it's all done on paint.

Not bad, not bad at all. I've done a less superior version of this with my own works, but yours puts more detail and such into the task, so I can see this helping me down the line.
You should make more of these, they'd be appreciated.

Thank you, I'm glad this'll be a help to everybody, I hope to make a good sprite movie down the line and I thought if I had this tutorial up and my movie inspired people, they'd know how to make their own sprites and make their own movies, but thats just a hopeful thing.

I think about it every now and again, but I just don't have time anymore. I've got to focus on other stuff and my sprite comics, so by the time I'll have time, it'll probably be years later.

If you guys make some sprite sheets or anything, show me your works, I'd like it if I used some more fan chars in my sprite movie granted it's probably easier to make the movie with the sonic canon characters but I want to some new faces to use.