Ailit's Metroid sprite project

[Ailit]

Any reason to put it up here at 3x the actual size? :>

So the lightsource is in between the viewer and the ship, isn't it? That's something that usually ends up looking quite unnatural.

Have a quick partial edit to illustrate what I mean.

I have bad eye sight so I have to make it this big to get an actual feel for the sprite. I can make it smaller for you if you want though

Also, I tried many a shading with the ship, looked at a ton of examples and honestly they ALL look unnatural, especially the official Nintendo sprites.

But I feel what gives the shading a more unnatural look more than anything else is the colors I've limited myself to. I guess there is no reason to limit the ship (which is much larger) to the same size pallet of samus. Some white can make a huge difference..

I'll keep in mind what you said but honest I've tried and it just looks butt if you apply that source all over the ship.