wah?
This is not the AE. Those rules don't exist hear.
Agreed.
I understand the effort to make it like the AE. However, this is not the AE. Signatures are likely supposed to be off there because you may end up posting sigs and then it gets confusing. Here, you can tell what are sprites and what are sigs (Even if someone has sprites in their sig, generally they have something else with it).
Signatures are not important, but there's no reason to make them off.
It is kind of hard to critique when you are just starting. what are beginners supposed to do? Not post their stuff?
Agreed again. Commenting is easy. Critiquing is not. Someone who's JUST starting out may not be able to note anything other than "I like it". There are certain things a newcomer can tell, like if it's a blob of colors that's supposed to be a Pokemon (not to say that that's the ONLY thing). But there are others a newcomer may not be able to notice.
Again, this is not the AE. In the AE, there's a lot more artwork getting posted and a lot more people there. Here, we're a generally small community, we're acquainted with each other, and unless we're all a bunch of jerks, which I don't think we are, we're going to critique when someone asks for us to. At LEAST leave that rule off unless it becomes a problem.
@sonofthesky - Obviously, it's just a recolor, but it's a great palette and it really fits Milotic well. The only thing that stands out to me a little bit is that the...ears or whatever are a little bit light and sort of clash with the rest of the sprite's dark colors. If you could darken the color, I think it'd improve the sprite, not that it's not great already.
@Overload - The palette works nicely with Zangoose, and although it is simple, if you were going for just adding the wings onto Zangoose it's fine. The only thing to note is that it looks like the right wing is a little higher than the left, and since they're at pretty much the same depth in the sprite, they should really be about the same height. Otherwise, good job.