A Place for new Spriters

[Proton]

There are a few examples that are able to disprove these observations, but I'm speaking on general terms here.

That's not biased at all.

A bitchslap to teen spriters.
That's what that is.




I know no teens that try to sprite that are like that.
More like you're describing a weeaboo from dA rather than anything else.

Not even that, but you start off taking about 12-13 year old editors and then follow to teenagers as a whole as spriters.
That's a jump, right there.

(lazy people make lazy edits)

wat.
Lazy people make lazy everything.
Even custom.

here's another can of worms: what if a person WANTS an edit?
"hi, i'm GoldenLugia64, and i'm trying to edit this trainer sprite into my character. c+c?"
maybe they aren't even trying to be a spriter?

This is a good point.

Maybe they're not actually looking to improve their skills, but rather trying to improve the sprite quality of something. Which means "Looks good" takes precedent over "I learned something". I'd like to think this is quite the common issue with sprite comicers and (fan) game makers that do not yet have the skills to make decent art and thus rely on others and their currently limited spriting talents. Is this the lazy way? Perhaps, even likely. But the point is, some of them may to look for those better versed in spriting for advice on how to make what they have look really good even if those with better trained eyes and more talent can tell it really isn't that hard.

Tl;dr Some people just want the end results not the practice and rather focus their attention on other things, like writing or programming.

Pardon me for asking this, but am I a total nutjob for not seeing how this is a problem at all?

Only if you're okay with the common movie game.