Low-effort (but Also Kinda High-effort) Meme I Made, Based On A Conversation I Had With My Brother:

Low-effort (but also kinda high-effort) meme I made, based on a conversation I had with my brother:

The colours didn't save right for some reason, there's a version without the BG that has the intended colours:

I spent way too much time on this for what it is, lol.

I like bears.

Image I used for reference:

(Just got the image off Amazon, I think they're neat.)

Good news that affects nobody but me!!

Recently, I made a sprite of my OC, Shun, public for the first time ever (forgot to ever say their name in that post, but whatever :P). I actually have a very specific system for making sprites of them, as I do for most characters, but today I've come up with a much better & more efficient approach that will likely help me make these sprites much faster! (It might not look much different but I swear, there's a point to this.)

(FYI: This is likely going to be a long post – or at least, longer than my others so far – and I may ramble a bit about my process, so be warned!)

To start, the biggest change in this system is the base character that I use. In both cases, the base has been Athena, but which Athena it is has changed: I now use the Athena sprites from KOF R-2, rather than SNK: Gals' Fighters.

(SNK: Gals' Fighters was released after KOF R-2, so it has a few corrections in its sprites beyond the outfit change. I tend to carry these changes over, while still retaining the outfit from R-2.)

My main reasoning for this is simply that Athena's outfit from KOF R-2 is a lot more similar to Shun's outfit than her Gals' Fighters look. This results in me not having to spend as much time modifying the outfit, and focus more on making the character look like Shun.

Now, for more specific changes:

Their shoes, in the original (still taken from the R-2 design, despite it mostly being GF), had the two pixels of shading removed. I honestly have no idea why I did this, so it's returned in these new sprites. (As a side note; the socks on Athena's R-2 outfit were also used in the old design to show Shun's ankles, and that's still the case now.)

Their jacket(?) was custom-drawn in the original; my system for making it was drawing a line across Athena's shorts to separate the two legs, and continuing this line up the torso, adding a darker purple edge to the outer side afterwards. In this new system, the jacket is just a recoloured version of Athena's.

Shun's hair buns were originally taken from the character A-Mi, from a bootleg fighting game on the Gameboy Colour called Queen Fighters 2000. In this new system, they're taken from Chun-Li, without the ribbons.

Now, about the hair...

Like their hair buns, Shun's fringe is taken from A-Mi:

(Every character in Queen Fighters 2000 is edited from a character from a NGPC fighting game. In A-Mi's case, she's modified from Shermie.)

However, an odd feature of the Queen Fighters sprites is that every character (save for Kaoly, who is edited from Chizuru, and Rina, whose sprites are custom-drawn, but based on King) has their sprites scaled differently; usually one pixel taller and one pixel wider than their base character.

When I took A-Mi's hair and gave it to Shun, I didn't account for this change, so in all of my original sprites, Shun's fringe is a pixel wider than it should be. In these new sprites, I instead took the fringe from Shermie, editing it to look like what A-Mi's would be, had it not had the weird scaling.

R O T I S S E R I E S H U N H E A D

So, that's about all there is to this new system! This might have just come across as insane rambling, but I'm just easily excited about this stuff and haven't really had the opportunity to share it before. I hope it was... interesting?? at least? Really, I just don't know how to end these kind of posts yet, so I guess I'll just stop here. :P

Chun-Li VS Yor Forger thing for the Spy x Family/Street Fighter 6 crossover:

I started making this when the trailer first dropped, but by the time I finished it I figured it would be too late, so I saved it for the actual release.

(also I've never seen Spy X Family before so if i got her off model I'm sorry lol)

As a bonus:

This is actually going to be Dan's outfit 3 when he inevitably gets added to SF6, Mr. Capcom came to my house and told me himself.

I've realised that I'm not as active here as I'd like to be, but that's mostly from me overestimating exactly how much time I spend making sprites.

Well, I made a few sprites of the new outfits they added in Street Fighter 6. I don't have the game, but the designs look pretty neat.

Might get around to making some of the other characters someday, but they'll certainly be a bit harder due to them not normally appearing in this style.

I've realised that I'm not as active here as I'd like to be, but that's mostly from me overestimating exactly how much time I spend making sprites.

Well, I made a few sprites of the new outfits they added in Street Fighter 6. I don't have the game, but the designs look pretty neat.

Might get around to making some of the other characters someday, but they'll certainly be a bit harder due to them not normally appearing in this style.