#sprite tutorial

I actually didn't, because I make my aura from scratch every time I do a grimdark sprite. In my mind, the aura wraps around the character, clothes included, and not just behind them. Still, I made one for you!

toyhouse link: here

AND, as a bonus, I made a guide on how to make your own grimdark aura too!

As with all my guides, these rules are not universal or set in stone, this is just how I go about it. Also, if you don't want to do all of these, you can always do the steps up to step three and just take the tentacles from the base and paste it in.

MOD KK....: SO UH. this is primarily to help a pal of mine, but like i thought it’d be good to make a post / tutorial in general, so here’s a tutorial which features the process of how i did this dave

since i use sai, this is a tutorial mainly for sai, but you can follow along easily on other art programs since functions are similar and etc. the link to the sai i use can be found here. 

tutorial starts under the read more: 

Hey everyone, FmsDraws here. I’ve been working on assembling a document with @chaos-fantazy that explains the process of putting together UNDERTALE/DELTARUNE styled sprites, I hope it’s helpful. Happy New Year!

Color picking for sprites tutorial!! 

Disclaimer: i’m not an expert!

Right so. u got this right??? 

Go over to your color wheel

slide it slightly down to the pink-ish red

Adjust a little bit, depending on how much you want the shadow to look pink/whatever color you’re doing

Then Darken/Dullen the color, play around with it until you’re satisfied! 

There is what it WOULD’VE looked like if we just darkened / dulled the red

Here’s what it looks like when we follow the steps I gave! It’s nothing special but I feel like it gives it more pop? So to speak? 

Counter-Clockwise(🔄) when I want to pick a shadow! Clockwise when I want to pick a highlight.

If anyone wants me to go more in-depth or actually explain it better feel free to ask!

Why thank you! I can give you guys some tips and an “alright” tutorial!

Make marks on canon sprites to use as references to help you draw the face, trust me It helps. Try not to trace, though tracing in the beginning is completely ok, but try your best to move on and be able to sprite on your own!

draw from the mark you have made, roughly sketch out the features and eyes! One thing to note, Danganronpa faces usually have big eyes and small noses. They don’t have giant eyes that take up the whole face though, its a common mistake that I see many people do. 

The hair is also important to consider, characters like Ouma have hair covering some parts of their eyes so sometimes its good to keep some linework of the eye. However if an entire eye is covered, please do not mother drawing the linework of the covered eye, it will come out strange (EX; some kirumi sprites.

*Self explanatory!* Try not to spend too much time on the under layer sketch, it is just a quick pose to be drawn. The body can be drawn without looking at a DR sprite if you know your body proportions well enough. 

Some lines are thicker like on the face and hair, sadly I am too lazy to abide by that rule sometimes. (’ v ‘ ;)

DR colors are not saturated and bright! Please do not follow that ‘pretty color’ trend’ for an authentic sprite! That is a common mistake! Adjust the saturation if you feel like your sprite is too saturated, take the yellow I used for the characters eyes as an example of saturation, or even himiko/tsumugi’s hair.

There is a texture used in DR that is applied to the hair and clothing, I used Canvas from Clip Studio Paint, but I think if you look on here you can find the right texture.

DR uses fades for coloring and I also don’t really see people applying that in fanmade sprites. It’s easily passed over, make sure there isn’t too much of a gradient with your fades you use! 

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1JlQED1YRk)

As a special early lol yeah right, it’s wednesday update to commemorate my followers reaching double digits (!!!), I bring you my first spriting DevLog~! I work hard, with my wonderful husband, to create Maddie!

Quick warning: IRL, I have a mouth like a sailor, so just be forewarned - there will be cursing and a lot of it.

So this is my first time doing this so maybe there are better techniques out their buuuuuuuuuut i figured out something that might work when I was doing Shier’s teeth in my icon. Soooo heres my super snazzy off sprite tutorial thing idk

Start with a lineart

it seems like it wouldn’t be important to have a line art since its not gonna show up in the final product but TRUST ME, it makes everything easier. (im doing animesh as an example)

Make sure there are NO LINE ART HOLES. It can be a basic line art, but u need there to be no holes.

Now take your wand tool and select the entire area outside of the line art. invert the selection, so it’s like this

Make a new layer underneath that and fill the selected area with white. Erase any areas that aren’t actually part of the sprite. Go to the white layer, select the white area. 

Make a new layer above that, take your brush or pen or whatever (if it’s hard lines don’t use it, we want it to be messy) and set it to a low opacity and 1 pixel in size. Maybe two if you’re drawing on a really big canvas. Just start colouring that shit in like a five year old with crayons and a colouring book. Darker colours have a higher opacity, and if it’s white don’t colour it in at all. OH FORGOT TO MENTION, USE BLACK. Use the same method to shade.

You’ll want to fuck with the opacity and contrast of that layer also to get it to look the way u want.

Now go to Filters>Render>Clouds>Fog. You’ll want settings like this, and for the fog to be gray. (theres probably a way to do this on sai on and fire alpaca as well, but i dont know because i dont use those programs. If you can’t find a filter for it try using a cloudy looking brush on low opacity and blurring it)

It’ll produce an effect like this.

Set the layer opacity to half or lower, (mine was set to 46). Turn off the line art layer, and merge all of the visible layers together. Clean up any edges before doing so. 

I’m going to say this is a face sprite sooo you want to crop the image so that it’s a square and shrink it to that size (48x48 pixels). HOLY FUCK RAISE THE CONTRAST BEFORE DOING THIS SO YOU DON’T LOSE ALL QUALITY.

Now line art it with a hard brush (pencil tool on gimp) set to a size of 1 pixel. it helps to apply a coloured background so you know when you’re drawing on transparency and when you’re actually drawing on the character. Cover up any transparency in the lineart because it WILL NOT SHOW in rpg maker, ESPECIALLY not 2003.

And voila, you have an off sprite!

The program I use is GIMP.