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^ I meant this, not the Yeti thing.

They kind of are THAT bad, but it shouldn't be too hard to get them to an acceptable level.

^Pretty much, you just want to keep it nice and simple at the start.

I hope this is in depth enough for you, and just so you know where I come from when I say this, I'm a spriter who mostly does full custom work, and I've been spriting on and off for 5ish years, I like to think that my sprites are at least at the standard of the IS gba fire emblem sprites, you can check out my gallery on here(I also noticed you were on FEU, so you can take a look there too if you want) Anyway I think that my apparent skill level probably provides enough backup for what I'm going to post so I hope you take it seriously and don't think I'm just being cruel.

Ok, I'll start off with bearded yellow Uther, While Uthers face isn't too young to have a beard that length(IMO he looks late 30's) Having a grey beard that length seems very far-fetched, how old is this character meant to be anyway?

My point here is that you might want to revise the colour or the beard length, if not then the face most certainly needs to be changed.


To me it looks like you've taken Uther and Athos, and placed Athos' body/beard and part of the back of his hair, over Uther(as above), then scribbled parts over the mouth and joined the sideburns with scribbles, you should splice nice clean parts. You also need his hair to flow more nicely, I'd suggest using more of the back of Athos' hair and join it to Uthers smoothly.



Anti aliasing is necessary on the beard, while there isn't much on Athos, how you've finished the shading is more akin to Dozla's, and as you can see, Dozla has 2nd, 3rd and 4ths skin tone used to shade in the beard, as was previously stated, yours looks pasted on.

Regarding the yellow, you really do NEED the 3rd and darkest tone to help the beard back onto the cloth nicely, while I don't think the colour is necessarily nice, It has been done before and I'm sure it will look a lot better if you fix the shading and add the darker tone to anti alias the beard.

That covers most of the basic and blatant issues, I can go more in depth once I find out how well you're able to fix them.

Regarding the other characters I'll bring up a few problem areas, though at this stage I don't think that ANY of these portraits are acceptable to place in a hack.


I don't understand why he has what I assume is fe8 border tone INSIDE an fe7 border, he also lacks the eye shine that signifies viewing direction in fire emblem. You'd be best off scrapping it and re-splicing it, trying not to **** the shading this time.


Broken outline, bad colour choices(both the hue and the actual contrasts and colours you used) and a bandanna that makes no sense :| This is a very odd portrait indeed, again I'd suggest re-starting it by splicing the components cleanly, you might also want to research bandanna's and how they SHOULD generally sit on your head, even if you have it sitting on an angle, your bandanna there randomly cuts off, this is not good.


More broken outline, bad colour choices and ****ed saturation, i really think that with all of these you should start again and do it right, these are extremely poor quality(I know you'll probably take offense to this, but it is the ttruth)


Probably the cleanest splice with the best colour choices, however his colours are far from good, some colours are darker than the border and you have parts that use different border tones, he also has a broken outline in places, this is the best of them, though that is no compliment, I still don't think he's at hack quality, his chibi doesn't seem to have been tidied at all, it still has its nose and it also has a broken border.

Here's a short video I made on how I make the Fire emblem Chibi's or "mini mugs" this should benefit you greatly if you watch and try and do the same when you make yours.


The ross/geitz combo has ok colours but the white hair tuft is very poorly shaded, you also used the same bandanna and hair on the raven base, Ross's head angle doesn't seem to match Getiz's body either by the way.

The blue knight seems overly saturated, while it seems to be eliwoods tones, the amount of armor on this makes it seem a lot more stark and ugly than the tones appear on Eliwood.

The saturation also applies to the jaffar re-colour(and to the franz/Ewan splice's cloak)

I find it hard to believe that Jaffar's successor is a fluero clone of him You really should try and put more effort into these, they all seem very rushed and in my honest opinion they look like they took about 5-10minutees each, Me being someone who spends hours on sprites to make them as flawless as possibly, I find this apparent lack of effort disappointing.