I have been spriting for a while, but I have been using templates (mainly HKCP) to just flesh out ideas, but now I am on the path of full custom spriting. The only issue with this is that I really haven't found the starting point. I am not too shabby at shading, but I am having one hell of a time figuring out form (i.e. size of character vs. width of body/length of arms/legs, etc.) but I am working it. I look forward to discussing with other artists how to achieve a manageble sized character (for gaming purposes) with suffiecient detail, without having a 300x300 pallette. Or a 40x40 pallette for that matter. ergh!