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Pixel Art Tutorial
Twitch's Pixel Art Tutorial
Here is a step-by-step process I follow when making sprites. This tutorial was originally posted to my WordPress blog, which has lots of other fakemon-related content. For this tutorial, I will be spriting an as-yet-unnamed fakemon who was designed in a previous journal entry.
Without further ado, let me show you how I make sprites.
I start with an 80x80 canvas on my pixel art program of choice, GraphicsGale. I actually work on a much larger canvas, 800x800 usually, and utilize the included grid feature to divide it into appropriately-sized squares. Why 80x80? That was the limit on sprite size in Diamond and Pea