Spriting!

 I've decided to use this blog as a little dump of sprite things I'm working on or have completed. :D 

This past week I've been getting used to Aseprite and its interface. Back in my day, we used MSPaint... but I guess I have to adapt. :) 

I've "finished" (at least until I build up my skills to clean them up) a couple things the past week!

First, a little profile pic for Discord -

With shirt

Without shirt

I was thinking of what I could make first to get used to the program, and what better than myself? After all, it's the first person I see in the mirror every morning. :) 

Secondly, a gift for a close friend -

I want to keep practicing furries at different angles, so I drew this for him! The background is from Warhammer 40k: Darktide, although it kinda looks like he's in some poop-colored Skyrim cave. I'm still happy with it though.

On the side, I've been experimenting with gamedev lately. One of my favorite game series of all time is the Mana series, so I wanted to try and make Mina in the form of a Secret of Mana sprite. 

This sort of orthographic angle is extremely confusing for my brain for some reason (and Mina's nose looks like a mouth that's too far up...), but it was a good test. My next test is going to be a sideview, something in the vein of a Metroidvania or Megaman style sprite. 

In all of the above examples, the shading isn't quite right, as I struggle to grasp it a little bit. Going to be really focusing on imagining where the light source is as I continue to try and improve, perhaps my next project should be drawing and shading basic shapes for practice.

Thanks for reading. :)