Pam Pam

I love the uniqueness of the sprite signature. Don't see stuff like this too often.

I sucked at drawing Pokemon in general as a kid.

So guys...where are the pictures 8D?

Good try and use of template. On the other hand, you may want to avoid such bright, saturated colors, such as the pink you chose. There is a lot more you could have tried to do in order to blend the render better in with the background. In any signature you do, think about color choices and plan ahead (or just experiment around) with everything you can do to bring the best potential outcome in your signature. Duplicate layers, play around with them and hide them to see how things look with an added effect or how things look without a certain object. Definitely a good start. As you continue to practice more, composition will come more naturally to you.

I'm not going to nitpick at your signature although you asked for criticism. That's because there are a lot of things that GFX artists already know is slightly off about their pieces of work. I honestly don't really feel that you need me to tell you every single detail that can be adjusted to make the composition slightly more appealing. For most part, I'm sure you're smart enough to find out yourself. Overall, I enjoy your layout of the signature. However, I will make slight comments that may not be so obvious. When I first looked at it, I thought the sprites were a little too desaturated. Seeing as how they are in the foreground, you want them to pop up a little more than the background. You want to establish planes because of the way you positioned the sprites. The pure black design you used in the middle throws off the color scheme of the signature. I understand you did not want to pick a color too close to the colors already used in your signature because that would cause confusion in differentiating the background from the foreground. However, I think you can pull off using a better choice than pure black. Black is a very strong color that stands out particularly in signatures such as this one. Our eyes divert almost immediately to the black in the background. (Similarly, the same goes for the border as well.) In the end, I congratulate your efforts. I believe that good ideas are important. Art is a talent, but also a practice. Nothing comes without struggle. Good artwork can be produced with much practice, but ideas are a result of experience and observation.

Although I did revive a dead topic, I think it's a good idea to make and update comments about other alternatives to the process when appropriate. Not to mention, there aren't too many other topics in this category anyway, so I haven't really pushed any newer topics out of viewing range. When you use the magic wand you should set tolerance to 0. This will ensure that your pixels aren't cut off around a sprite. However, for best results, be sure to erase along the border, seeing as how the Magic Wand tool does happen to decrease the quality in the edges of pixels/sprites. Otherwise, for most part, Magic Wand tool does the trick.

Somebody teach me to make c4d renders 8D Pikachu is my Pokemon :) I got lazy, so I got an old pic.

lulz @ e-drama.

...Well, all of you are wrong. Everybody obviously knows the answer is waffle.

Might wanna clean up a little around the render a bit.