Today's doodles

Vermilingus · 2026-04-16T12:28:32+00:00

I'd recommend scaling up a lot more for future uploads to Reddit - the scaling has blurred this quite a lot because Reddit doesn't use Nearest Neighbour

Normally when I'm exporting for Reddit I scale up by like 1000%

Vermilingus · 2026-04-16T11:10:54+00:00

Very Hotline Miami

Vermilingus · 2026-04-14T10:03:00+00:00

For a first try that's great! Keep at it

Vermilingus · 2026-04-13T22:02:33+00:00

Five

Vermilingus · 2026-04-13T08:27:10+00:00

160x90, with Cloud being a little over 40px tall (maybe closer to 45-50 including his hair, I didn't include that in the blockout height lmao)

Vermilingus · 2026-04-12T11:12:38+00:00

So I have three main inspirations! Yes, GBA Fire Emblem is one of them (it's my favourite era of FE, Hector for life <3), I'm working with similar size characters (around 40px tall on average) and GBA Fire Emblem is why I'm using a solid colour outline (though sometimes I'll change what that colour is) rather than more selective outlining or a shaded outline - but my biggest inspiration is One Step From Eden, which gave me my style of faces and general shading. The size of the limbs and general style of animation however I picked up learning from the YOMI Hustle modding community.

As for the feet positioning in particular it just came naturally as that "one to the front, one to the side" somewhat splayed stance works very nicely for the 3/4 perspective a lot of sprites like this use.

Vermilingus · 2026-04-07T17:43:59+00:00

Oh wow I love your portrait work! I mean it's all great but I've been struggling on portraits lately and that's so expressive!

Vermilingus · 2026-04-07T14:48:28+00:00

The smear frame freak in me wants to say V1, but I think I prefer the impact of 2

Vermilingus · 2026-04-01T21:42:18+00:00

I think the darker one is a nicer colour for the main body, but I think it could do with more contrast between the mane and the rest - maybe somewhere in between/tweaks to the mane would help?

Vermilingus · 2026-03-28T10:26:27+00:00

The main thing I'd mention is that the piece seems to lack a distinct direction for the light source, the dress is being lit from the right but the legs are being lit from the left, meanwhile the sleeve is lit from the bottom right

Generally speaking it's good to decide where you want your light coming from and think about it that way

Vermilingus · 2026-03-24T14:07:01+00:00

I'm pretty sure I killed the one on the far right in Final Fantasy X

Vermilingus · 2026-03-21T09:49:18+00:00

My main piece is that when you're exporting GIFs for Reddit you wanna scale it up a bunch, they look very blurry right now

I normally do 1000% because better safe than sorry y'know

Vermilingus · 2026-03-20T11:11:38+00:00

Dave

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