These ones were my first creations, I believe. Looking at them now, I can see a looot of really bad mistakes and crap going on.

I believe Liechtenstein was the first sprite I made without borrowing from any other sprite. I might've referenced poses and the like though, but that face was drawn by me. Dave's sprites were made in 2012, the rest were 2008/2009. I copied the broken disc pixels directly off his sprites from the comic I believe. The Pearl was definitely made before her appearance in Dual Destinies.

I know Sissel's hand is a bit wonky... one day I'll learn how to draw hands properly! /shakes fist

The first thing I do is bring up my references for the new sprite in Sai. In the case of Maya, I use her old sprites for pose, and the default pose of her new sprites for size. I also bring up the HD version of the sprites so I can see her eyes and eyebrows in detail.

For the first sprite of a new set, I use the sprite of a character closest to the size and pose of the character I want to draw. For Clay, for instance, I used Hobo Phoenix looking serious. For Maya, I used Ema.

Next, I make a new layer and draw the rough for the new sprite over the default pose, next to the old sprite.

I flip between the old sprite's poses very often as I draw the rough, to make sure it's accurate.

Once I'm satisfied with the rough's appearance, I make a new layer again and draw the lineart in black.

I didn't draw the bottom part of her body in because I was going to just copy and paste that part from the default pose sprite.

Next up is colours! First is base, and then shading. Shading is based on the old sprites.



Once the shading is done, I make a new layer on top of the lineart and clip it to the lineart, and then use it to alter the colour of the lineart.


At this point, the sprite is almost done, but it still doesn't look quite right... I merge the clipping layer to the lineart, then merge the lineart to the colours. Then I take the pen tool and do final edits to the sprite, which involve fixing the eyes and thinning the lines of the sprite.


Once this is done. I export to psd. Since Sai can't use gifs, I export to gif using GIMP, and then open the gif up. At this point, I check the sprite for weird pixels on the outline, and do a bit of fixing in Sai. I copy and paste the eyes and mouth sections and alter them for the animation layers. Once I'm satisfied with the sprite's outlines, I make copies of it and merge it with the mouth and eye animations and then animate the sprite. Typical eye animation speed is 100ms, and mouth speed is 150ms. If you want the sprite to blink and talk at the same time, it involves a little math :P

History swap Apollo, where he's swapped histories with Trucy! Based off this tumblr!

Percei, the main attorney of the fangame! I didn't design him, I just made the sprite :>

Here's the bench default sprite for Katrina Rainsford, the main prosecutor for Percei's fangame! She's designed to have a weather theme, though it's not exactly obvious from this sprite...

Pink, actually, because red is a horribly demoralising colour.

The List:
- Wrist tilted outwards some more. The lower the fingers are to be pointed (so the greater the reflex angle between arm and palm), the more the hand should be tilted outwards instead to compensate.
- Thumb pointed upwards instead of inward toward the forefinger. This is to do with how the thumb connects to the wrist and the direction of the joint there.
- Fingers splayed. There's nothing wrong with having the fingers together, it's mainly my personal flair - keeps the sprite more interesting especially since they're so small.

Note that the palm is more rounded than rectangular compared to yours in the correction I made because I didn't notice *cough* that's my style. And the thumb can also be closer.

Edit: Excuse the poorly-drawn fingers, please. Wrestling with mouse strokes is too time-consuming.

IT'S CLAY!
I'm having a serious breakdown right now! These are amazing! And you Maya sprites are incredible!