Manes' General Art Thread

[Gors]

im back with my attempt. Have in mind i never sprited in this style before and have no knowledge of the character.



When spriting in someone's style, you gotta obey the principles, even if the character is originally from another series. You referenced that Jimmy Neutron + Fairly Odd Parents mashup movie as your explanation, but I find it a little wrong.




as you can see, even if the characters are the same, the style does change. Of course, the design is the same, but the stylistic choices have been altered to better fit each character into each other's universes. (disregard teh obvious 2D>3D change)

Cartoon Jimmy Neutron, for example, has rectangular eyebrows, while his original counterpart doesn't. And Timmy's proportions also got changed in order to fit better with Jimmy's characters.

In the end, they are still the same character, but without these slight design changes, they wouldn't fit as well.

When making a sprite in a given style, you must analyze a lot of examples to use as references. This can be used to choose colors, facial structure, the way the artist shades things (these all leads to the sprite looking legit or not).

(I'm sorry with the uneeded sprites. The sprites, of course, are from TSR's sprite archives and not ripped by me.)


Cf. both versions:



My changes in the character was giving him a more 'solid' hair, giving him small eyes akin to Sugimori's style, using smooth lineart and replicating the facial structure's style. Pokemon sprites are also known for having selout in some parts of the lineart (it's that broken lineart effect). The general rule for selout is to keep black lines in curves and lines AWAY from the light, and coloring the lines where the light hits more. The black line also can be used in volumous places, mimicking line thickness.

I may have forgotten some of the details since I kinda rushed the sprite but I think you can learn a thing or two from this.