Today I remade Claudia's sprite in preperation for her first scene in the demo.

I had been working with some older sprites of claudia, but they were trash now, partly because her old sprites were based off a stock sprite I purchased months earlier (which now looks too simplistic and generic) and partly because that sprite was in school uniform, which is now obsolete, and partly because I didn't like the actual look of the sprite, it lacked "appeal".

Here's the old Claudia sprite.

Cute, but after looking over it a month after I created it....it wasn't going to be good enough.

So today I decided it was time to make a new Claudia, not based on anything previous.

I started with the usual chunky texta drawings on paper, then tracing those with a mechanical pencil, then scanning, then cleaning up and painting in photoshop.

The following drawing should illustrate the process.

scans

Then coloring in Photoshop began.

hair coloring

testing out different outfits (also changed her eye color)

And finally got to this point, where I would be happy to add her into the game, entire process took about 5 hours I'd guess?

I hope someone finds this informative :)