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Idle Witchcraft Sprint 5

  This sprint hasn’t been my most productive due to some external circumstances, but I still did manage to finalize our first customer sprite, the knight! This guy proved to be quite a challenge. I haven’t had much experience doing character art, only winging it as best I can when a project calls for it. While far from perfect, I’m still really happy with the result! I began the process by building out the pose I wanted with a sketch. I took a very loose approach to this as all I wanted was to get an idea of the features and idea I was trying to convey. After this sketch, I kind of jumped the gun by going straight to flat colors. I tried to refine the details of the sketch while also figuring out the basic coloring, and I wasn’t very happy with where it was going, so I ended up tossing this attempt and restarting this step. I realized here that trying to properly work out the details and color at the same time was biting off more than I could chew, so I decided to limit mysel...