No worries, I don't mind. Thanks. I know that it's different, but this is much easier and by doing this I can actually make 'sprites'. This is a cheat of sorts I suppose. Well, no it is lol. As I was touching up the sprite I thought to myself that this might not be a bad place to start with pixel art. Maybe it could be like reverse engineering. The image is already made but by doing touch ups on it I can perhaps get a feel for it (the coloring at least). I'm working on making an illustration of Cacturne next. The sketch is done I just need to color it. I'm going to see if I can make another one using Cacturne since that pkmn's movement is simple enough for me to make lol.
I don't mind so much. I like a challenge, which is why I'll raise a team of 12 or so pkmn each play thru, but I'm fine with them leveling up quicker. I say this because I'm older and while I still do have some time to level grind in these games lol, if it can be hastened I'll do it. I always attach Lucky Eggs to my pkmn as well.
If you're interested, here is a link to the video that I was referring to. Nothing special but I figured post it just in case. youtube - Spriting Process - SinhRa
Congrats, I actually played Platinum for the first time not that long ago (back in September/October). I see, if I recall correctly I think that my level gap with her was only like 5 or 4 levels. I'm taking it that you haven't played B/W then? I enjoyed B/W but I remember that I didn't like most of the new pkmn at first. I remember viewing them all on serebii the first day that the sprites were posted on the internet and thinking, "what the hell, so many of these look like something from Megaman or Digimon. However, that thought changed after some time. I actually really like most of the 5th gen. pkmn now and a good amount of them are actually some of my favorites. B/W 2 is really good too imo.