Concept Sprite (Arcanist)

[Saigas]

An update after a long absence. ^_^

[Jon]

Hey, thats not bad! Looks a bit like a dark black robed Elidibs. If you are going to use the same portrait as your avatar, one suggestion is to make the colors of the hat and cloak the same, other than that looks good. What type is this, 1 or 2?

[GeneralStrife]

looks like it lacks shading, although this is hard to achieve on black sprites, which is why you dont see those often

[Saigas]

While I would agree with you, General Strife, since the majority of it is merely a recolor of various different pre-existing sprites, I really couldn't do much better with the shading. I followed the shading scheme of the Male White Mage's robes very closely, since this entire sprite was done on a White Mage spritesheet, and everything else was pretty much just cut and paste from various other sprites and recolor.

Also, re-update. The above attached bit map has negative areas and stray pixels everywhere, this is the one I cleaned up with thorough examination in Shishi: