Also made a bunch of timelapses, figured I’d post them here too
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i honestly wish i was as good as you at shading.
beside using any default color together with a darker tone for the shadow effect, i haven’t grasped yet how to properly work with 3~4 colors at once.
the light reflexes on the armor parts you’ve made are also pretty damn good.
overall, these works are 11/10, nicely done 
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Thank you!
I’ve referenced and learned from other artists’ works and artstyles for a long time to get to where I am, given time I’m sure you’ll learn how to do them and much more as well.
One tip i can give you for the colours is that aside from making a default colour a darker tone, you can can change the hue of the colour to a darker side of the spectrum
Grabbed a random palette i had on hand, there are probably better ones but these give you a gist of it
If you have difficulty making your own colours, you can colour-pick colours from other portraits or references, then either use them as is or adjust the values til they look like what you want them to be
For colour slots i recommend referencing other people’s portraits to see how they allocate their colours, usually 3 colours is good enough for unless its a bright colour e.g. yellows, blondes, whites, etc. since you’d need more aliasing for that.
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Damn Pretsel, your work has really come a long way. Really impressive stuff!
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Hey what Aseprite theme is that? I need a dark one for my eyes
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awh, thanks Shep! 
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Here’s the theme I use!
And yes its pleasant to the eyes
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thanks!
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sooo, remember about me just staring at the ceiling
is it still a ceiling if im staring at my pc screen instead
The Fiery Scion, Marie for Judgement of The Prince!
Variants:
Left to right: Capeless (or as I’d like to call it, the Full Hair ver.) and Armoured ver.
Now, this one actually took a while, if we stretch w h i l e to almost a year long. I started spriting her design around near the end of last year, though I felt inexperience and had no creative juices flowing to create a design I’m satisfied with so I hesitantly left it be to work on other things.
Though overtime, I gradually started working on a new design on the side which resulted to this beaut. Now I’m very satisfied with her especially the hair and trims, I felt serotonin and dopamine doing those.
I guess it’s back to lying down and stare at my scre- i mean ceiling, yes ceiling
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oh and have this really minor doodle i made on a whim while working on one of the portraits, idk it looks funny
I wonder what will it do
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it’s going to put one slightly different colored pixel on a portrait making it uninsertable until you find it.
If you’re referring to Marie, i forgot to mention and i posted this at like 3am she’s to be inserted in the Lex Talionis Engine, so yes it’s past 16 colours, which is 17 colours and a bunch of pixels in the portrait are cut off when using the standard gba portrait format, but since the LT Engine has no space limit I made it like so.
I wasn’t referring to any portrait, it was just a joke.
oh?
oh.
Ohhhhhhhh
You mean the mischievous doodle i made, apologies i just woke up
unless it wasn’t that… then refer to me waking up
yes that would be quite funny, little mischief making thing
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oh yeah did this timelapse too
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The part of the timelapse where you couldn’t decide what she was wearing made me chortle weakly in resignation because I SWEAR I waste way too much time deciding on that too
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nice >:]
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all part of the character designing process lmao
wow pret you’re so cool and sexy. I love your pixels so much!
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it has been
2 months
dos months
zwei months
too months
i am busy with college now, so i have lesser time doing sprites. Anyways
The Viridian Zephyr, Perkus
and The Red Sun, Mae!
These characters are for an upcoming hack, Chthonic Curse! I’ve been commissioned to remake these 2 character’s portraits by the Dev Lead. Glad that he loves them both, had fun designing them too. I would’ve finished Perkus last December but due to a typhoon strike I had no power until New Years, but yeah still finished him.
I’ve already made Marie last December for portrait consistency so Perkus and Mae count for Jan and Feb >: )
unfortunately I did say that college has made me busy so I won’t sprite as often now, thus ending the portrait a month streak : (
expect sprite doodles til then if im free that is
back to do homework that i’ve been procrastinating and is actually due tomorrow lol
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