i'm a sad individual so here are my not good sprites

[miyabi95_]

what you're pursuing here is a very valid thing - don't let other pixel purists say otherwise.

basically, that's how game artists made portraits and big art in old games. They actually did very little pixelart (in the modern sense of the word). They'd draw by hand, scan the lines, paint digitally and run an index palette to trim unnecessary colors.

Hahaha I'm impressed you were able to notice how i've been making sprites! 

But as you said, I do other things outside of pixel art (in fact this might be the most invested I've ever been lol), so it's a bit overwhelming for me to learn how to create something pixel-by-pixel without any aid from complex software like Photoshop. Fortunately, my improving drawing skills is starting to assist me in making sprites, because for me it's basically the same thing but at a smaller scale. Even for small game sprites, I highly prefer using anti-aliased brushes vs. the old Paint pen that draws single pixels - the brushes allow me to use more imagination so that I don't use too many or too little details in whatever it is I'm spriting. (explained below)

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I made some game sprites, but not sure which palette to go with.