Need help making behavior/damage sprites

[Azren]

I've been getting some good use out of VX Ace's character generator, save for the inability to make alternate poses, especially damage/downed/sleeping sprites.  Can anyone point me to a tutorial/give me some tips on this?  Thanks!

 

[Andar]

Basically, each behaviour pose is hand-drawn or hand-pixeled. Which means that you'll need tutorials on how to be an artist.


There are a lot of artists on this forum who can help you and point you to the correct tutorials, but they need to know how good or bad your artist skills are first, and which painting program you plan to use for that work.


Can you tell us if you'll be planning to use GIMP (free), Photoshop or what other program, and give an example of a picture you've painted in the past (by whatever method and whatever quality)?

 

[Azren]

The only pixel art I've done are recolors of a couple things.

Regarding what I've actually done, I'm using GIMP.  I'm still working things out, but I made these two drawings on paper, then traced them with GIMP, and fiddled around with tools to figure out coloring and shading-

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[Kes]

Tutorial #5 here http://www.rpgmakervxace.net/topic/20383-the-pixel-dojo-total-tuts-15-latest-01-11-2015/  might be what you're looking for.

 

[Azren]

Tutorial #5 here http://www.rpgmakervxace.net/topic/20383-the-pixel-dojo-total-tuts-15-latest-01-11-2015/  might be what you're looking for.

That's a really great start, thanks!  I'd be happy for any more resources, since it seems to only cover the one pose, but this is really helpful!