Pokémon Pixel Arts

[Sol]

CCH, I understand you might have been among the best at the Nsider Forums, but these forums are almost completely dedicated to sprites and pixel art. You're in a whole different league, as it were. The standards are higher, and the critique might be harsher, but sometimes the best medicine can be bitter tasting. Remember that, and you'll probably be better off.

Now, from my standpoint, your pixel art isn't necessarily bad, but like some people have said, there are ways you can improve it. I'm not really sure why Umbreon doesn't have a mouth, and there are various parts in the linearts that are jagged and slightly misshapen. I know you said you like your pixel art to be crisp, but there's a difference between being crisp and being jagged. Circled in red are jagged/misshapen parts I noticed.



There are definitely other things you could improve/fix on the sprites that I can't specifically point out, myself, but other people can probably tell you what those are.

Secondly, just because there are worse pieces of spritework hosted on the site doesn't change the fact that yours needs work. Low-quality sprites and pixel art are an ongoing problem that the site is dealing with. Even disregarding the low quality stuff, why wouldn't you want to improve your artwork if it's been made apparent that there are aspects of it that can be made better? Saying "I think it's as good as it's going to get" is just being lazy. You made these to be used by other people, so if anything, other people's critiques of your artwork should be pretty important to you. If someone points out a flaw, it doesn't go away just because you don't think it matters. It's there until you fix it, and people will keep noticing it's there, until you fix it.