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My Spriting Art Journey
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Posted: Sun, 03/08/2025 02:20 (11 Days ago)
This thread is dedicated to documenting my progress and passion for learning how to sprite Pokémon and other pixel art over time. 💖
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🛠️ About Me
Username: InvincibleMeltan
Started Spriting: 26/12/2023
Goal: To improve my skills in pixel art, custom sprites, and eventually make my own fakemon!
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📅 Spriting Timeline & Milestones
Check back to watch how my skills grow over time!
[spoiler=My Progress Log]
Week 1: Practicing recolors using Gen 5 sprites
Week 2: Trying some splice experiments (e.g., Bulbasaur + Charmander!)
Week 3: Working on scratch sprites and shading basics
Current Focus: Recoloring and givinging props to small sprites 🌟
[/spoiler]
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🖼️ My Sprite Gallery
Here are some of my works—newest at the top! Click to expand each section.
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💬 Feedback & Tips Welcome!
If you have advice, ideas, or constructive feedback, please share it! I'm here to learn, and I truly appreciate support from other spriters and artists in the community. 💬🧡
Want to collab or trade sprites? Feel free to message me!
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📌 Updates & Goals
I’ll keep this thread updated every time I make progress or complete something new!
Short-Term Goals:
- Learn to recolor sprites
- Try fusions
- Improve outlining and shading
- Try legendary sprites
- Enter an art contest on PokeHeroes
Long-Term Goals:
- Make a full sprite sheet
- Design a fakemon line
- Host a sprite shop
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Feel free to post comments or your own spriting tips below 💬✨
Sorry about the Quality
Posted: Tue, 12/08/2025 22:48 (1 Day ago)
GIMP was what I first used to learn to do sprite work. Its a free art program and does more than just pixel art. Can animate in it too if you'd like.
Once you download and install GIMP, you'll need to check if the Pixel brush is included or not.
1. Click on the Pencil tool
2. Click the image of the brush that is active (red arrow)
3. Look through the drop down
You can see in my image I have "Pixel" selected based on the brush name.
If it is not there, that is ok! We can simply make the brush.
1. Click Pencil (if you left this menu area)
2. Click on the pencil icon next to the brush, "Edit this brush"
3. A new menu should open up (brush editor). Of the tabs at the top of this menu, click the one on the far left, "Brushes"
4. Right click on top of any of the displayed brushes in the menu and click "new brush"
5. Set the following:
Shape: Square
Radius: 1
Spikes: 2
Hardness: 1 (max)
Aspect Ratio: 1
Angel: 0
Spacing 20
6. At the top of the menu, change it from Untitled to a name you'd like to give it. (Ex. Pixel, Pixel Brush, etc) and press enter to confirm it. It will now be saved to your brush menu to select.
7. While the new brush is selected, in the Pencil menu, set the Size to 1. You now can do pixel art in GIMP freely, can simply change the brush size as needed.
End Part 1.
Working on part two. Post was getting a little long, but this should get an environment started for you if you wanted to play around with it :) part 2 will have the recoloring like I mentioned in the PM.
