I was trying to keep my progress on how I tried to draw these out but I shouldve done them by layer instead of like screenshots so I'll just describe it real quick.
I started within aseprite and brought out the grid and just tried to sketch dynamic pose-ish kinda silhouettes with a light color and then outline it and try to clean it up the best I can. Then I tried the 3+5 color palettes to keep things a little challenging and also make a larger sprite in general.
I took a while on this but I just need to stop messing with it for now since we start touching up tomorrow and after
Time spent: +4 hours with breaks
Time Spent: 32 minutes
Some of these need to be more tight with changes in contrast but I like to see where I can improve
Palettes are still super fun!!
Time spent: 35 minutes
This was a cool exercise it felt nice to see how the colors came together and mixing things up can give some good ideas
If you are just starting you do NOT have to do what I did and make a ton you could do like
[[ie. (3 and 2) or like (5 and 5) as the minimum for the Three Palette and Five Palette respectively]<<
Time Spent : (For like the first 10 of both types) +1 hour 30 minutes
( The rest was an extra hour and a half just from experimenting and having fun)
Total time ?+3 hours?
You can tell when I got interested in SHIFTING HUES and started to experiment
But like Jason said Always start with the BASE color. if you get lost with where you're going, just use the Color Pick tool back on your BASE color then retry the SHADE/HIGHLIGHT you were going for
If you are having trouble thinking of just picking colors in general look around you what has a solid color? how is the light effecting it? what color is coming from the shadow?
and then when you get into SHIFTING HUES think about what is the color of your light? have you used those LED lights before and how they can change the entire color of the room and suddenly an object looks totally different
sometimes the sky will change in hue depending on the time of day, sunsets, sunrise, natural disasters, man made pollution and so on.
Once again I am not an expert on this I'm just applying what I know about environment and life experience I never knew how color stuff worked and
my colors might look funny but I had a blast doing this one and I learned a TOOONNN
tl;dr haha funny curve go brrr
