Komedic Konservationist's Sprite Collection!

[Komedic Konservationist]

I'm an upstart spriter, and after a week of praticing with recolours I have finally plucked up the courage to display my sprites to the public.
So far, I have only made recolours, but expect to be seeing fusions sometime around Saturday. Here they are........


Yes.... My first ever sprite! Teddiursa is my favourite Pokemon, and it's design is nice and simple to work with, so it was an ideal choice. I used the Fire Red/Leaf Green sprite instead of the Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald sprite, because RS is a blasphemy to the name of Teddiursas everywere.


My second ever sprite, and what I currently consider my best. I love Xatu, what with it's mystical appeal and totem-based design, and feel this colour scheme suits it better.


I recoloured Yanma several times, before deciding on which one to post here. I settled for this. That shocking crimson and gentle blue go superbly imo, and make Yanma look quicker and far more dangerous.


I made this one for one of my best friends on the forums. As always, I was really dexturous when it came to shading, and made sure the colours went well with eachother. I had to do this twice, because the first time I forgot to save it!


When spriting with Shuckle, I decided to go with a realistic approach. I colored the apple in a mouldy green, to fit in with it's description as the ''mold'' Pokemon, and colored the worm parts pink. Yes, it's a bit gross, but that's life.

I'll upload some more later, but for in the mean time, what do you think of my sprites so far? I've got a few rules though......
1: If you want to diss my work, please use constructive critiscism. Don't bash, or else!
2: No stealing!
3: All main site rules apply here.
Oh, and thanks to Dragonfree for teaching me all about spriting.

 

[Shadow_Fox]

The Teddiursa is pretty good for a first ever sprite. For future ref, when revamping you want to recolor the outlines as well as reshading the body with three levels per color. Some black outlines are great and should stay but having the entire outline black makes the sprite look too "hard" and unfinished.
I really like the colors on both the Yanma and Xatu. They all look great for a begginer, Dragonfree had a good student.

-Im not sure why, becuase theyre all saved as PNG, but the Yanma and Belossom (Sp?) Both look a bit fuzy, like they were saved as a JPG rather than PNG.
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[Medical Meccanica]

Imageshack changed Pngs to Jpg quality for some reason, which is why if you plan on using it you should get a Gif Animator or Giffy to turn your Pngs into Gifs (Transparency ish teh own). If you just want Pngs, use ******* (www.*******.com) or Photobucket (www.photobucket.com)
As far as the sprites go... some of the colors seem a bit bright, did you use default paint ones? Well, don't, either way some of them have shades that are too close together, which makes them appear is if they have no shading at all. you can have them closer together in shade if that's your style, just make them a bit darker or lighter.
Not bad, not bad at all. Keep going, you have potential. If you like shading so much, attempt a revamp, or possibly try a mix if you feel ready.

 

[-Espacio-]

Natu is the best. Aand Teddiursa need some work on the colors. The others are great too!

 

[▼■DoomWing■▼]

Teddiursa is pretty good for a 1st sprite.As for the other ones, The shades are really screwed up.BUT, you can always make em better.

 

[Metal Force]

good, can't wait to see the fusions

 

[Komedic Konservationist]

As far as the sprites go... some of the colors seem a bit bright, did you use default paint ones? Well, don't, either way some of them have shades that are too close together, which makes them appear is if they have no shading at all. you can have them closer together in shade if that's your style, just make them a bit darker or lighter.

Photostudio has a very limited range of colours, which makes subtle alterations in the shading rather diffacult to do. But thanks for the advice, I'll take it into consideration later.
Anyway, as you can see, I've toned the turquoise splodge on Xatu's forehead to fit in with the rest of the body. When I have time, I'll do the same with Bellossom, as now that I look at it, the shading on the body does seem a little off.
I have spent the evening perfecting a Togetic recolour, and am about to get started on a Ninetales one. In the meantime, here is my golden Togetic;

It was rather awkward, seeing as Togetic has almost half-a-dozen shades of grey on it's body, and it took time and patience redoing these shades in similairly-toned shades of yellow. However, I'm rather impressed with the end result.
In the meantime...... What do you think?

 

[Metal Force]

it's good but colour the green circals with orange or something

 

[Bulk]

The recolour for Xatu is VERY good. That should've been it's shiny, it've made it much more "wantable". Your Teddiursa is ok but the outline needs some work, you can't just have it plain black, however, it is VERY good for a first ever sprite. I look forward to seeing how you do fusions.

 

[ø®ΑпGЗ ♠]

Togetic's outlines seem a bit bright. Most people think paint is easier, but it only comes on Windows.

 

[Medical Meccanica]

Like OE said, you might want to consider using Paint if you have it. I've also seen nice sprites done on Photoshop, if you're not using Windows.
As for the new sprite- the outlines on the right arm look too dark, but I like it, although it looks more yellow than golden.

 

[Komedic Konservationist]

it's good but colour the green circals with orange or something

If I colored the green circles in orange like you suggested, then it would look too much like the sprite was pure gold, as orange is a very similiar colour to yellow, and I like a nice variety of colour.

The recolour for Xatu is VERY good. That should've been it's shiny, it've made it much more "wantable".

Yeah, I was *extremely* dissapointed with Xatu's shiny form. All they did was brighten up the green and replace the red with orange. I despise shiny forms that are barely any diffrent from there originals; it defeats the object of spending hours searching for shinies in long grass. One of the reasons I took up spriting was to redo these pathetic shinies.
Alot of people have been suggesting that I use Paint instead of Photostudio. I'm afraid that's a no-no. I've only recently gotten accustomed to using Photostudio, and now I'm sticking with it.
I now have two new recolours to show you; a Furret and a Chimecho.

I went for a spinage-shaded look when creating this recolour. It's one of my practice recolours, and a little unfinished. There is still a faint brown outline on the forehead, and the cheeks are still brown. I'll take care of that some other time.

When I first did this, I wasn't to impressed by my own handiwork, so I toned up the blue shading and put sharper pink around the outlines of the arms and tail to improve it's image, and now me luffs it <3 Note how I gave it a silver bell; partly because I think it contrasts better with the pink and blue ^__^
I decided not to go ahead with the Ninetales recolour I mentioned in my last post btw. I colored half of it, before realising I hated the colour I was doing it in, but couldn't be bothered to start all over again >__>
Right now, I'm about to get started on splices and fusions. Expect to see a few in my next update.

 

[.Bambi.]

Your Re-Colors are fairly good, and you show potential to become a great Spriter [it's not a glamerous job].

As others have said, Teddiursa is all back/dark outlined which makes it look bad. Try to use darker shades of the main color you're using, or darker colors that work well with it [for instance, brown for yellow].

I'm interested to see you do some Mixes, as re-coloring is pretty standard. Show us your skillz!

 

[~*Pikafan*~]

Nice Re-colors.

 

[Komedic Konservationist]

Here I am atlast with my first three mixes. Behold!!!!!!!!!!!!







The Gligar+Mantine mix is called Gligarman, the Miltank+Shedinja mix is called Holy Cow, and the Octillery+Slowking mix is called Octaking.
All three are fairly straightforward, minus the Gligarman one, which I redid almost 5 times before coming to a conclusion on which one was most ideal to be posted here.
Btw, I created all these mixes using Paint, as it worked better in terms of splicing. I will use Photostudio for recolours, and Paint for splices.
So, what do you all think?

 

[.Bambi.]

Ooh! I like the Gligarman! Nicely done...

The other two look like you just copied and pasted parts of other Pokemon onto another Sprite. Which is probably what you did. To mix Pokemon, you need to do what you did with Gligarman. Choose a base Pokemon and then add the other Pokemon's characteristics to it.

Oh, and it's not wise to put them on a black backround. Almost every Pokemon Sprite has a black outline in its darkest place, so putting them on a black page will make them look grainy.

 

[Komedic Konservationist]

The other two look like you just copied and pasted parts of other Pokemon onto another Sprite.

That type of splicing is called ''Adding parts'' according to Dragonfree's site. It's the most simplistic type of splicing, and since I'm new it was an ideal step on the road to learning mixes.
Right now, I've got three more splices, all three of which are genuine mixes. They are.........


Tyranniboah. Like Gligarman and Holy Cow, it is based off a pun. I don't really like this one, as an extremely heavy body balanced on a thin, snakey body looks erxtremely dodgy. But for the humour factor, it's worth it ^__^


This Oddish/Sentret mix, Oddtret was made for my friend Ilex (even though we hardly ever talk) This is probably my favourite so far, as Oddish's leaves and shades go really well with Sentret. It looks natural, and not too complicated.


I love this one almoost as much as Oddtret; partly because I think it's cool how fusing Sharpedo's face with Lanturn's body and antannae make Lanturn look more like a real-life angler fish. It's name is Lantedo.

 

[Bulk]

Tyranniboah - looks out of place. Don't really like this one.

Oddtret - Simple but VERY nice. The simplest fusions are always the best and this is one is brilliant.

Lantedo - Work on the shading and this one'll be great. The shading is pretty bad on it at the moment though.

 

[≈*Virulent Tsunami*≈]

Teddiursa: I dunno about this one. There's not much range in color, which makes it look rather....flat, frankly.

Xatu: No offense meant, but probably the worst of them all. The eyes on its stomach are quite choppy, and the blend of colors isn't really blended much at all. It's not bad, per se, but it's not excellent.

Yanma: My favorite of your re-colors. Very sleek and fitting for a Yanma.

Bellossom just feels incomplete to me. Its petals are really one-dimensional and flat, and they look overly bright in comparison to the softer colors of your other re-colors. But the rest of it looks brilliant.

Shuckle looks great.

I realize how hard it must be to redo a Togetic. But it still looks overly-bright and has the same problem as your Teddiursa. Perhaps a different color would be easier to work with.

The coloration on Furret is excellent, but the outline is really choppy. The positive outweighs the negative, though. I had to examine it find the problems with it.

Pink doesn't work with Chimecho much at all, IMO anyhow, especially the shade you've chosen. But you did a good job with the re-coloring regardless. It looks quite fluent.

Delighted to see a Gligar mix ^_^ My only complaint is the ears. They just don't look right on Mantine. The coloration and the tail would be enough to distinguish as Gligar/Mantine mix.

The Holy Cow...It really doesn't look right without arms, but I suppose there's no way to avoid amputating them with this specific mix. The wings are a little iffy, but it works.

Octaking is probably the best of the three. There wasn't much effort required, but the mix is very nice and fluent. It actually looks like some sort of alter-evo for Octillery.

The shading is excellent on Tyranniboah. But yeah, it does look preposterously disproportional.

Oddtret....Would've called it Sentrish, personally, but it's your Sprite.
It looks great. Seriously. Only the tail looks even slightly wrong, and even with that, it's mostly because the outline is vague. The actual fusion of Oddish's colors and leaves is seamless, and it looks excellent.

Lantedo....I'm not sure on this one. The shading could use some work, and the outlines are a little too distinct to be a flawless splice. I think it's your choice of Pokémon that's the problem more than your skills. Sharpedo's a hard Pokémon to work with, and Lanturn's various bumps and bulges make it difficult to blend. It looks good on paper, because the idea of a feral angler fish is excellent. But when you actually try it out, it's pretty difficult.

Keep in mind that I'm trying to be as impartial as possible with my reviews. You're my friend, Komedic Konservationist, and I don't want my opinion of you to interfere with my reviews. Also, I have pretty much no experience with Sprites. I'm not a Spriter(although it would be fun to be one), and I'm just here on your request. A lot of my guesses are probably really off, and you might want to pay more attention to the other reviews in this Thread, because they actually know what they're talking about >>;;

~*CB*~
The 8th Champion​

 

[Volteon]

This one is great, but I don´t see too much syncronization in colors, the most common are red-orange, blue-yellow, gree-yellow, and gray-black-white

Try don´t use paint´s collors. (try use other sprites color I don´t know if you already do this, but just a tip for starters)

Excelent, if you color the white in the head with Xatu main color I think it would look excelent!

I prefer this than the original one, this one has few problems but they aren´t so big.

good for a first recolor. try to make it red when you want re-do it, the red from blaziken´s legs aren´t so bad.

I think it´s strange a Togetic with all the tringles with the same color, but apart from that, you chose a good color for it.

Great mix! If you fixed a little the shell, it would be excelent, I liked how octilerry is with shellder.

it´s strange without the arms, it´s not a bad mix, it´s good because of the randominess.

Problem shading here, the ears´ shadding are on the back when mantine´s head shdding is in front. the same for the tail.

if you did everything with the color in shapedo´s body then it will look good, and if you try to make all the yellow in this picture purple it won´t be so bad too!

this is good, simple mixing+recoloring, but excelent result! like CB said there´s too blue in the end of the tail.

This is strange, you chose bright colors for seviper´s body and seviper without the sword isn´t a good thing to do.

You can see that I don´t write as much as C.Blizz. but I hope I gave you a good help!