pixel art

[Kosheh]

For a first post, I've at least gotta hand it to you for picking decent palettes...? That doesn't look like pixel art, though, and more like just a drawing with the pencil tool in MS Paint.

I know there's a lot of people nowadays who start with "pixel-overs", which is basically the MSPaint version of tracing an image.
Don't share traced-over official Nintendo art on VGR, but for original works you'll definitely get praised and the criticism you're seeking. It DOES help drawing out your design on paper a lot, scanning it in and then drawing over it in MSPaint.
I think that's what Kelvin basically suggested.
Once again, to reiterate: you won't be praised here for showing off traced pixelarts of promotional game art, as yeah - it's the equivalent of tracing a picture and attempting to pass it off as your own IRL.



A few people suggested you try using the line and curve tools to establish better understanding of the shape tools in MSPaint. As you're just starting out, tracing will help you better understand these things, as well as palette selection and maybe even shading.
However, if you rely TOO heavily on them, people will catch on kinda quickly and call you out for it.

We all started out somewhere - just keep at it!!

you can start by not making huge sprites. If you started with smaller things, you could improve upon your lineart

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this, too actually. We all started out with smaller sprites, and those who've really got a hang of the medium switch over to larger canvasses. It's like the work of a tattoo artist - start out small with cool doodles on paper before you get to the real, large-scale medium (that also requires minimal error, too)