man this is long overdue. At this point I really should be done with all the characters I wanted to sprite and write movesets for, and then gotten back to
actual work on Smash. I took a break for a while; some life things, concerns with projects and pressure to get back in the groove kinda burnt me out and I needed to approach everything with a clearer mind than I've had for the past few months. I actually dropped this last sprite when I was extremely close to finishing and just had no motivation to pick it back up.
That said, I got hit with unexpected inspiration last night and had to put it to good use. This here is Captain Thunder, a sailor and explorer. I've gone ahead and added his section to the first page.
(I do feel like the hat could use some refining, but it'll probably look better once I add proper shading in the end.)
Also Kyle and Keela above didn't get a proper post since i didn't feel like making a new one at the time.
EDIT 10/09/22:
I don't think it's worth bumping the topic for, but I did finish another character. She and the next one I'll do are both not my own characters, but ones I have permission to use. Guests in my works.
This is Cymbeline, a half hedgehog, half "Elysian": an alien race of winged humanoids. She's owned by a user named AngelWings (Not here, but on discord.) who is a close friend of mine. I struggled with this one a bit more than others because I have never drawn wings before. I also feel like the clothes need adjustments so I might mess with them later down the line.
I also updated Splice's colors a tad, to accommodate for the actual updates he got to his art.
As much as I'm trying to pull myself out of this funk, life's been hitting a little too hard lately. Still, I only have one character left I want to make before I go back to working on Smash. I'll update the first post with Cy's concept soon, as well.
EDIT 12/31/2022
Happy New Year! I'm not dead. On the contrary, my situation is clearing up so I'm trying to officially pull myself out of hiatus. Actually I've BEEN trying, but simply looking at where I left off is making my brain freeze, let alone trying to pick it back up. So I've decided to take a different approach and begin spriting another character for now. A fresh start for the new year, you could say. I should be posting progress soon. I could now even, but I'd rather wait until I have enough worth bumping this thread for.
EDIT 5/14/2023
I realized that I never actually posted the updates I said I would over here. It's not a whole lot, but I made some adjustments to Splice and Gizmo.
For Splice I changed the shape of his face a bit to be more accurate to his artwork.
And as for Gizmo, I had to adjust the size of his head at least 3 times because of how obscenely wide it was. I also made some extra frames for his goggles, which in hindsight would be much better off as layered sprites.
And with that here is the updated lineup of every character so far.
Now for the real reason I haven't been posting: I actually have a fair few more projects on my plate than just this, and I'm putting more attention into those than SRB2. It's actually really important to me that I really double down on my main stuff now more than ever, so it'll be a while before I come back to this. But given the nature of my sprites, I'm hoping that what I do there will give me a significant boost here because it involves all of these characters and more.
