I wish the comments had an edit button.
What I meant to say with PS and Paint.net, is that you need one of them to make proper text bubbles. It doesn't matter how good you are, bubbles made with MS Paint will always look too pixelated. Same with the text itself.
Don't listen to Pulse, he isn't any better than you are. The only reason some of his pages look ok is because people have redone them for him.
Now that that's out of the way, I have two suggestions:
1. Use Mystery Dungeon sprites for the pokemon. They're in the proper scale to one another, and they offer a much wider variety of expressions and poses.
2. Get Paint.net MS Paint is fine for editing the sprites and laying out the panels (it what most good spriters use), but you really need Paint.net or Photoshop (they work equally well, but Paint.net is good if you don't already have PS, because it's free. Like Kevin told you before, whatever program you use, never skew an image to resize it, it messes up the proportions. Always resize by percentage. That being said, I'd recommend that you make the panels themselves bigger, to give yourself a larger canvas to work with, so you can go into more detail with the character's expressions and whatnot.
Also, and this has already been stated, always save your strips as PNGs. Saving it as a JPEG (like what you have here) or another format will really screw it up, and you won't be able to fix it afterwards. You have to recreate the strip from scratch.
ok well work on the speech bubbles I fav'd cause I wanna see where this comic goes..Nice starter pokemon It's really original (I'm not be sarcastic btw)
Check out my comic to see some examples of Sprite comics on MS paint!
Pulse at 7:23PM, Nov. 18, 2007
DUde I've only had 1 page edited for me and the was my first ever sprite page!
TBustah at 6:34PM, Nov. 18, 2007
I wish the comments had an edit button. What I meant to say with PS and Paint.net, is that you need one of them to make proper text bubbles. It doesn't matter how good you are, bubbles made with MS Paint will always look too pixelated. Same with the text itself.
TBustah at 6:32PM, Nov. 18, 2007
Don't listen to Pulse, he isn't any better than you are. The only reason some of his pages look ok is because people have redone them for him. Now that that's out of the way, I have two suggestions: 1. Use Mystery Dungeon sprites for the pokemon. They're in the proper scale to one another, and they offer a much wider variety of expressions and poses. 2. Get Paint.net MS Paint is fine for editing the sprites and laying out the panels (it what most good spriters use), but you really need Paint.net or Photoshop (they work equally well, but Paint.net is good if you don't already have PS, because it's free. Like Kevin told you before, whatever program you use, never skew an image to resize it, it messes up the proportions. Always resize by percentage. That being said, I'd recommend that you make the panels themselves bigger, to give yourself a larger canvas to work with, so you can go into more detail with the character's expressions and whatnot. Also, and this has already been stated, always save your strips as PNGs. Saving it as a JPEG (like what you have here) or another format will really screw it up, and you won't be able to fix it afterwards. You have to recreate the strip from scratch.
_Bandit_ at 5:58PM, Nov. 18, 2007
thank you pulse, I will check it out, I need all the help I can get ^^
Puff_Of_Smoke at 5:40PM, Nov. 18, 2007
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Pulse at 5:39PM, Nov. 18, 2007
ok well work on the speech bubbles I fav'd cause I wanna see where this comic goes..Nice starter pokemon It's really original (I'm not be sarcastic btw) Check out my comic to see some examples of Sprite comics on MS paint!