Paper Mario custom sprites

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Oddly, now the thinner outlines look better to me.

If you want to keep it flat, maybe add some anti-aliasing? The way you have it right now is TOO flat, honestly. Sorta like a 1920s cartoon, or the 1st public broadcasted TV cartoons, which the flat style only was done because it was monochrome.

There's multiple ways to make a flat drawing look less flat without shading:

• Use darker colours on different areas, maybe Mario's back shoe could be darker than his front shoe, since it's behind our view.
  
• Don't make everything have outlines, there is a point where outlines start looking ugly from too much of them.
  
• Anti aliasing, which makes it less jarring to look at.
  
• Coloured outlines, which make the colours pop out more (The TTYD Paper Mario uses subtle, coloured outlines)
  
• Only using black on areas with anti aliasing, which makes it pop out a bit more.
  
• Maybe some extra AA to cut the jaggy look from double-pixeled outlines.
  

Here's a reference I drew up for all of those:



This is mostly how I sprite, so it doesn't really matter if you do so, more or less some information than criticism.