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I highly doubt that these count as art, but you guys know those PSS Icons in the 3D Pokemon games?

Well, couple that with Starbound RP, and you get these.



I've been doing these requests for a while, they're super fun and rad to do.

Pixel art is still art.

Speaking of which pixel art, here's some things I started doing for a project (mostly as style examples so I don't forget what I'm doing) that I had to put on hold because I'm too lazy to learn to program right now.


The crazy backdrop was so that I could imagine how the sprites would look against a scene better, and a solid-color background kept throwing off my shading.

Why is Jay Leno wearing a bathrobe and who gave him a gun ohemgee why is he shooting??

Holy crap Airra, that's some crazy good pixel art, got any more examples? Would love some pointers from you.

That's all I have uploaded so far. Everything else is on a computer I don't have access to right now.

Any advice I can give is entirely situational based on whatever I am looking at, but I think I miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight come up with something eventually... Sooner if you have examples of the kind of thing you need help with.


I was working on a template spritesheet that I was eventually going to upload somewhere for amateur game designers to use and have a head start on making a game with stylize-yet-proportional 2D characters, but I never finish it.

I've been wanting to make a small RPG project and those cute sprites fit the theme well. Really, I wanna learn anything I can in pixel art in terms of dimensions

Yo, I don't know if I've said this before, but I love your comics Stranger.

Oh! I forgot to comment on Stranger's comic. I got too distracted by pixels.
I find the art style to be delightfully disturbing. I like how much detail works goes into the lines. I tried to learn that shading style once but I got frustrated because I haven't been able to properly draw in months.


The dimensions really depend on what you're trying to limit yourself to. I pretty much told myself that I was going to keep all the characters between 80-96 pixels tall while making those, but the actual resolution will change a bit based on actions as seen by the two characters who are crouching a bit. I used sprites from TWEWY as a reference since there are veeerry few resources to use that explain the process of making sprites that aren't "Cockfighting Society-style" chibis or high-res Fighting game characters.
You should also decide the width of each part of a character. I think I kept the waist of the characters around 9-10 pixels wide, as an example. The arms vary from 3-5, as well as the legs. I generally kept the hands around 6x6 or 8x8 (I wish I could get to that computer to get more accurate numbers). I'd post a picture of the twenty-or-so hand poses I made for an example of whatever but I'm a failure at everything I touch and don't have the files with me.

You also want to decide how much space the characters will take on the screen and how active you want them to be and how much they'll be moving around and the general screen resolution the game will use. A 256-tall character would look nice, but if the game is natively at 600x800, it'll get cluttered really quickly if everyone is that tall. Those characters were made with an Action RPG-style game in mind, being able to run across a large space with multiple rather mobile enemies in the same space, along with wanting a style that could have the characters and their many different poses made quickly, so the actual max resolution for a sprite would probably have been around 100x120, stretch and shrink proportionally. That doesn't mean the style won't fit into another project, however.

A lot of resolution-related stuff will depend on what game engine you will be using.

Some have some rather specific requirements to what they'll let you do, such as many Toolkit-style engines. I never used RPG Maker, but I had a friend that was having trouble working around its 32x64 resolution limit. Try to plan for what your tools will work with best.


I reeeally hope those random ramblings make sense and/or are relevant. That's about all I can think up on the spot. Feel free to cut the backgrounds off of those characters and study them as much as you want.

EDIT: Holy Cheez-It® Baked Snack Crackers™!! Did I really just type that much text?!

You have, its much appreciated

Okay, took an OC named Audrey and tried my hand at it.

I think it looks okay, but i wish i did the chest a bit better.

I am jealous of your ability to make light-colored pixel hair.

Also, most of the numbers that I gave as examples might be a little high, come to think of it. I made all of my examples half a year ago and, like the terrible, awful person I am, didn't bother doing actual measuring for accurate numbers.

For some reason I feel at my artistic best when I sketch in PANK. I don't even like PANK, but I'll take it.

I'm finally sitting down to write something. It's shit and I don't have high hopes for it, but it's a thing.

Made some pixel art of Lucina. Mainly to convert to perler.


Any feedback or pointers are welcome. I'm still new to the shading.
Airra, you're pretty good yourself at the sprites. I'm pretty jealous.

I plan on making the characters I main the same way. The process is just Pokemon trainer sprite editing.
Super fun though.