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

To break down what I did I tried to use the examples in Frames 4+5 to see if I could clean them and then compare what I did the first try looking a little sad but then I did the others and felt like I got the hang of it more (in the second image; I see where I made some mistakes - the muted yellow is the original correction)

The third image I kind of challenged myself to not only do clean up but also improve the image as well

I think it turned out great with how much time I used and I feel like I have a better grasp on how to do line art

Time spent: 51 minutes 47 seconds (note some of the time is off because clockify crashed on my desktop)