I'm kind of reluctant to ask, but...

[SmashTheEchidna]

I kinda need some spriting help. Seeing how there are many active spriters here, I thought I could probably get some faster results by posting here.

See, the thing is, I'm in the process of remaking an old sprite sheet of mine. I was editing sprites of Knuckles into Smash. Now that I've given him a design upgrade, I want to add that onto all of his sprites. But I just keep getting the feeling that these sprites just aren't coming out very well. To be specific, The hair is the problem. So, here's what I need help with.



I need these sprites in particular done. Just some sprite rotations, so I can know what I'm doing with all the other sprites. Now I can handle the clothes and whatnot, I just need the hair. I couldn't seem to get that down.. If someone can do that, then everything else should be a snap for me.

Now the hair looks just like it does in my avatar. But just so you can get the full effect, here:

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Hair was never my specialty when it came to spriting, but this really takes the cake. The way I did it, he just didn't feel..right. Please, I really do need help here.

[Korby]

I'd help, but I'm terrible at spriting hair, or "quills" in this case.

[SmashTheEchidna]

No, it's hair. I changed it from "quills". Thanks anyway, though.

[Korby]

But...he's an echidna. Echidnas don't have hair, they'd have fur or quills!

And I just realized how weirdly "echidna" is spelled.

[Max]

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=/=

Anyway so something constructive? The hair shouldn't all be the same length unless he has a bowl cut and it should cover the eye like it does in your avatar. Maybe recolour individual strands of hair the same colour as the rest of the head to make it less spine-like.

[SmashTheEchidna]

Well, quills in the style of hair. I dunno. I was mainly thinking of Knuckles' dreads when I said that.

And yes, it is kinda weird. I've noticed that whenever I type in Echidna, all my spell checkers think it's wrong and suggest Enchilada, which I personally find hilarious.

EDIT: I haven't really had much luck with it lately. Though I've been concentrating more on making the Knuckles Skin that Kapus asked me to finish for him. Heck, even if somebody did ONE sprite with his hair I could work from there.
Thinking of it now, I think I'd have been better off posting this in my skins thread, considering the fact that there was actually someone (Unfaded Sora to be specific) who actually supported the idea of a Smash skin.

[SmashTheEchidna]

After all this time...I think I finally did it. But I need a second (or third) opinion.

So please, Comparing this sprite to these pics

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Do you think it's passable?

[Kapus]

He has a strange cowlick in his sprite that doesn't seem to appear in his artwork.

[SmashTheEchidna]

I'm leaving that there. I'm not even gonna bother trying to make it completely accurate to the artwork. After all these months, this is how it's staying.

[BiscuitSlash]

I think it's passable! To me it's quite good actually!

[SmashTheEchidna]

Thanks.

Ironically, it looks better from the side, while he's looking directly right. Originally, it was those sprites that gave me so much trouble in the first place.