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Here are some sprites I've created over the past few years.

All sprites are created from scratch. No bases, no splicing, just me, the ms paint program, and the pencil tool. The only exception is the third set - the black and purple/red dragon. I can't locate my scratch hatchling sprites, so I included the re-tooled base sprite from Dragon Cave, the site for which they had originally been designed for.

I use Gimp to make the images transparent.

So, what do you think? Which ones do you like? Do you think they are game quality or no?











I've been meaning to make the baby stages for this one, but I'm being lazy....

You can also see I've gotten a little better since I originally started making these things. The last few have much more depth than the first few.

These are actually really incredible! You seem to have an eye for dithering that most people don't. I'm really impressed by these, they look less like sprites someone made just for fun, and more like sprites a team spent months working on for a game. Fantastic work!

Lazlo Falconi : Thank you so much! That's the highest praise I've ever gotten for my sprite work!

MAX FORCE : The sprites themselves didn't take years to make. This is just a few of the things I've made over the years. If I dedicate myself to it, I can get a sprite drawn, colored, and shaded in about... 2 days. If I'm super motivated, I can get one out, like the food sprites and hatchlings, in a few hours.


Laziness is my own worst enemy though. I've got a lot of unfinished work sitting on my computer due to lack of motivation.

I agree, these sprites are beyond impressive, especially knowing they were made from scratch!

Are they from a cartoon, video game or elsewhere (the dragons and other characters?)

I REALLY like the ones from the fifth column and below! They are definitely sprite worthy! You should open a Sprite shop in the Vizzed Market..if you're interested of course. I would buy one or a few!

Good work!

Wowww! I don't usually post in these sorts of things, but I saw Lazlo looking at them and I just wanted to say you're amazing!! If I didn't know you had made them, I would have thought they were for sure out of a video game for sure! They're so detailed and incredible looking, I wish you had something to use them for!

Seriously, very, very cool. I especially like the brown cat beast and the owls!

YourMajestyKen : All of the animals I sprited are of my own design. The only thing I made that is actually from something is the slice of cake, which is a hat tip to the game Portal.

That row, the zombie bat, gummi bat, and portal cake were created for the Dragon Cave website as collectible items during the 2010 Halloween trick or treat event, so if you've ever been on that site, you might see them on user's scrolls.

The sprites below that row I designed and am currently allowing a site called Silvadopts to use as long as they don't make a profit off of them.

I don't think I could run a sprite shop though. Like I said, I'm pretty lazy when it comes to art, so if I don't think the request is interesting enough, I won't have the motivation to complete it. Though it is a wonderful surprise to find out I'd have a buyer though. What a compliment.

Unrelated note:
Huh... the more I look at the Egyptian Cat thing on the top, the more I want to recolor it... I think I will.

Yeah, these serious;y look like they came out of a GBA RPG game. They're really good! Not many people appreciate pixel art that much, but I find it fascinating how the artist puts little squares of different colors together to form such masterpieces.

I know this thread is a month old, but I'm excited about my remake X3

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I've been meaning to redo that Bastet Dragon for over a year now, and I finally sat down and redid it today. I'm so happy with the result. I guess I really have gotten at least a little bit better over the years.

Hawaiianbabidoll : You sharpened the edges of the Bastet without the help of an auto-deal with a program, impressive if so.

edit - well, looking at it agian, it looks like the contrast was changed as well.

I wanted to go to the "Art/ Stories/ Simulation" before doing my stuff, I saw this thread and then I was so curious. So I took a look at it and I have one word to say: AWESOME!

I could tell many other words to describe this fantastic stuff you created, Kit (can I call you Kit, by the way? ^^ ). Too bad you don't want to run a shop in the Vizzed Market, your work is really good. My current project of RPG with RPG Maker XP is still in development but those sprites would be probably interesting for my next projects.

tRIUNE :   I have no idea what an 'auto-deal' is . I just re-shaded it from scratch. I added an additional color to each wing color, tweaked the line art, and changed the shading style on the main body to make it more gold like and the wings to make them more gem like.  All of which can be done with basic MS paint.

laian : PLEASE call me Kit ^-^ Thanks for the compliments.   I've thought about art shops before on other sites, but the one time I did do it, after only about 15 requests all within the first few days I got so bored of it I closed it down.  XP

Wow, you're skills sure have improved! The old one looks flat by comparison. I wish I had a knack for colours like this.

Those are absolutely phenomenal. What did you use as inspiration for the designs? Or are they all just something you saw in your head and recreated?

soxfan849 : Most of them are just things I imagined, but some of them were inspired by requests on the Dragon Cave website (mainly the shadow, zombie, and glass looking one). The Bastet is Egyptian based, then there's one that is loosely based on the Thylacine, and of course, the ouroboros is based on the ouroboros legends.

That's incredible. I'll never be able to understand how people can have that kind of an artistic mind. I hope you'll have more to share on the forums later.

More more more.... I'm taking advantage of my need to remake old sprites and I bring you the marsupial dragon. I'm not sharing the original sprite because I'm just THAT ashamed of its awful lines and slipshod shading.


         


Marsupial Springer Dragons are a plant eating breed that travel in large groups called mobs, which include parents, grandparents, siblings, and their offspring. The young are raised in a pouch found on both males and females. Like all springer type dragons, Marsupial Springers have powerful hind legs that allow them to jump to tremendous heights. Though their wings are too small to fly, they use them to give their jumps more lift and to glide safely down to the ground from tall heights.

My gosh this work is amazing! Have you ever thought about trying to animate your sprites? Also, will this work of yours simply remain a hobby, or do you plan to springboard off of this into a career of some sort?

Your marsupial springer dragon is really good and I enjoy how you made it, an evolution of this creation from the egg to its adult size. Absolutely fantastic, I love it

Wow, this is great. I love how the fourth ones tail just melts into shadow. The coloring on all of them is outstanding!!