I know right!? Me!? SPRITE!? BWAHAHAHAHA!
But in all seriousness, I thought it was about time I tried to do something again. You can thank Ryoga for somewhat perking my interests again and to Chamat for getting me attempting this again. Though whether or not I'll actually try to do things for the Midnight Bliss & Shock Project myself is debatable. I'm still not a good spriter by any means, and I haven't sprited anything in 3-4 years.
Some of the more ancient sprites (found in my ancient thread years ago). Keep in mind that these have NOT been touched in 3-4 years, and this was back when I first attempted hi-res style (the only one I actively tried to fix up was Reimu. Komachi was the very last one and was in beta before I stopped):
Touhou Hi-Res Sprites (Guilty Gear styled):
Komachi Onozuka:
(http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x308/Xenomic/Sprite%20Edits/Komachi%20Onozuka/GGKomachi-2.png)
Reimu Hakurei:
(http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x308/Xenomic/Sprite%20Edits/Reimu%20Hakurei/GGReimu-16.png)
Remilia Scarlet:
(http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x308/Xenomic/Sprite%20Edits/Remilia%20Scarlet/GGRemilia-28.png)
Sakuya Izayoi:
(http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x308/Xenomic/Sprite%20Edits/Sakuya%20Izayoi/GGSakuya-19.png)
Youmu Konpaku:
(http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x308/Xenomic/Sprite%20Edits/Youmu%20Konpaku/GGYoumu-23.png)
And now, for modern time stuff!
This...is a beta so far.
(http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x308/Xenomic/Sprites/MariaBeta1.png~original)
It uses a slightly modified version of Guilty Gear's May's face (only eye colors and eyebrows. I haven't touched the mouth yet). I'm just outlining things right now, but...I'm not sure if this is going to turn out ok or not. I need to keep her height shorter than May's (May being 5'2", and I'm assuming that Maria here is shorter than her), which is a task in itself...and since I'm no spriter, this is turning out to be...a monumental task all on its own. ^^;;
References I'm using for the sprite:
(http://images.wikia.com/castlevania/images/f/f7/Richter_n_maria.jpg)
(http://images.wikia.com/castlevania/images/9/9b/Rob-offart25.jpg)
(http://images.wikia.com/castlevania/images/1/1a/Rob-maria-sprite.gif)
I am trying to keep it as close to the original sprite as you see there, while using the images as references. I...don't know how well this is turning out at all tbh. ;__;
Why Maria of all people? And this version of her? Because I like Maria despite not knowing much about Castlevania, and this design is a simpler design to work with. *shrugs*
So...this was something I was working on...
(http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x308/Xenomic/Sprites/LennaBeta1.jpg~original)
But thanks to being such a dumbass and not checking, I accidentally saved it as JPEG (why the hell is JPEG the default for Paint?!). So, this sprite which WAS really good ended up being completely ruined. Then I tried a second time...
(http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x308/Xenomic/Sprites/Untitled.png~original)
And now it just looks plain freaking awful...like...you have no idea how angry I am at myself and Paint for losing such a great sprite, then spending another hour trying to get back to that point only to end up with this terrible sprite...goddamnit all...I haven't been THIS pissed off at myself in forever, but really now. Lenna ended up looking TOO manly in the newer version, and I had it perfect in the original...
References:
(http://safebooru.org//images/1018/64d01fc4f390f7d01ee44904366a799b170575a9.jpg?1052348)
(http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x308/Xenomic/Game%20Art/00.jpg~original)
(http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy/images/6/67/FFV-iOS-Ach-In_Your_Debt.png)
The last one is what pose I'm using. The other two images are what I'm using as references. Well..unless someone knows how to save a sprite saved in JPEG format...>_>;;
So yeah, 1 hour and a perfectly good sprite lost because stupid goddamn me. >___>
EDIT - A little update...
(http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x308/Xenomic/Sprites/Untitled2.png~original)
So I tried to slim her down some and whatnot. At least she looks more feminine than manly...I think. God this is gonna take a lot to fix this up. Also, hair. Not my thing.
Time for an art dump! Finally got the scanner to work, so scanned some of my works over the past couple weeks.
Shyam faces:
(http://th09.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2014/004/c/1/shyam_faces_by_xenomic-d70vpuh.png)
This is the last image I attempted to do. This was me not using Tiki, Nowi, or Nah as references, and trying to do different hairstyles mostly to see which would fit my OC. This also shows how bad I am at keeping anything proportioned on the head...;___;
Nah Practice Art 1:
(http://th01.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2014/004/2/b/nah_practice_art_by_xenomic-d70vqfn.png)
A frontal view of Nah. Just the head, as the rest of the body was to come later. This was a later drawing after I figured I got some decent grasp of doing heads. Also, first time doing braids, which I thought came out decently. The mouth could've used more work though. Jawline too, but jawline is always hard to do...
Nah Practice Art 2:
(http://th05.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2014/004/6/6/nah_practice_art_2_by_xenomic-d70vr91.png)
An attempt of doing an angled view of Nah. The braids, while they look ok, kinda...just float there weirdly. I honestly don't know how I screwed those up so badly.
Nowi Practice Art 1:
(http://th08.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2014/004/b/1/nowi_practice_art_by_xenomic-d70vrqz.png)
Or what I dub Stoned Nowi. This was before I thought I had a decent grasp on doing faces. Needless to say, this was bad. ^^;
Nowi Practice Art 2:
(http://th05.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2014/004/b/d/nowi_practice_art_2_by_xenomic-d70vsbs.png)
This was the first image I drew on paper and pencil after the Photoshop version. While it's not TOO terrible, there's still some glaring issues, even with the head...
Nowi Practice Art 3:
(http://th04.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2014/004/4/8/nowi_practice_art_3_by_xenomic-d70vsnj.png)
This was drawn right after the 2nd practice art, and well...as per usual, still some glaring issues. This is based on her portrait image from Awakening as well (the 2nd one was based on an artwork from Awakening too).
Tiki Practice Art 1:
(http://th03.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2014/004/5/c/tiki_practice_art_1_by_xenomic-d70vt40.png)
Done later on when I thought I had a firm grasp on heads. Same issues persist here, though I think this was before I stopped drawing eyes first and then doing the head around the eyes...
Tiki Practice Art 2:
(http://th07.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2014/004/d/d/tiki_practice_art_2_by_xenomic-d70vtjq.png)
I attempted to draw a full body for Tiki (this was long before Practice Art 1), and well...I just couldn't do it. I wanted to see how it'd look and it looks bad. ^^;; So after this art is when I went back to practicing heads a lot more.
Nowi Practice Art 4:
(http://th02.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2014/004/0/e/nowi_practice_art_4_by_xenomic-d70vu7r.png)
This is actually my most recent art right now. I attempted another full body art, and while it's not nearly as terrible as the Tiki one (or maybe it is?), I still can't do the body parts right. I guess I should just work on heads more or something...ugh...
Oh me oh my~ *Dusts off topic* Been half a year? A bit long eh? Well, I've only recently started picking up spriting yet again (nothing on art since last time, since well....no motivation to do that still). Why now? Because I'm doing a little request for someone at the current time, in exchange for something, on DA.
(http://i.gyazo.com/0a502497e9dd10d8c701cee38dc15447.png)
It's just a head for now, and uses Mei-Fang (if you can't tell) as the base for that. Mei-Fang actually is a good reference for this character's height (only 1 inch shorter than this character), though having a bit of issues sorting out how the shoulders/arm should go. Once I get past that, the rest should be fairly simple to do, as the character's design is pretty basic. Pretty Ada Wong-ish actually.
The requester's character in question:
(http://i.gyazo.com/babdcaa695e603879303972dbbc8b5d8.png)
So yeah! Just throwing this out there, since it's SOMETHING I suppose. *shrugs*
Taking some time to study some real-life arms, and then finding Lilica and using her as reference, I attempted to correct the left arm (character's right arm). Also attempted fixing up the hand...:
Near Max/Max Zoom:
(http://i.gyazo.com/0216d7ef2205b280cd0235825ed1ae55.png)
Default zoom (so normal zoom):
(http://i.gyazo.com/57891a432c558418ccf94d3219a5a150.png)
Better or worse? I'm not sure since again, arms and hands are my bane. The other arm I will probably work on soon (and probably use Lilica again as a reference since she seems to be the better one for these arms). Will probably touch up on the torso later. Though now that I look at it, I'm not sure if the torso is properly placed or if where her chest is is too low on her body...hmm...
Oh, and the reference image I was using for my real-life image:
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7212/7385959486_f0e4288738_z.jpg)
Apparently I cannot translate RL stuff into pixel stuff. *Sigh*