[Spriting Assistance] Guidance on how to produce this image?

[Ollie]

Hi there, I hope I can ask this sort of question in this forum. Basically I have little to no talent when it comes to spriting so I need a little bit of guidance/tips/etc on how to produce the cliff styled rocks in sprite form:

So my idea was to just make a blank 128x128/256x256 Canvas and fill it out with a base colour so a shade of brown or whatever. Then go other it with darker lines, but then what about shading?

Does anyone have any idea how to go about recreating the cliff pattern in sprite form?

Thanks

[Zenor]

So my idea was to just make a blank 128x128/256x256 Canvas and fill it out with a base colour so a shade of brown or whatever. Then go other it with darker lines, but then what about shading?

You definitely took the right step if you want to do it in a 128x128 form. But if you want to keep your work simple, go with 64x64.

As for shading, You have to think of it tridimensionally. Where does the light hit the most and where does it hit much less?

Sloppily done, but should get the point across. It kind of like how it was done with lava reef, except lava reef had lots of optimization to fit 16x16 tiles.

If you want the rocks to be flat though, just shade around the edges. That's where the curvature is.

I'm really bad when it comes to explain some things, so please excuse me.