Drawing big and scaling down is NOT the best way to do sprites by any stretch of the imagination
Infact, Drawing should be the last word on your mind when making sprites, because you arent drawing them, your "Pixeling" them
Pixeling (Zooming in really far and controling every pixel of the sprite) is a very different skill from drawing, I can't draw anything half decent to save my life, but my Pixeling is pretty nice
There used to be a great website that I visited with some pixel art forums and some great tutorials on it all, but it seems to have been taken over by one of those parasitic search companies that are slowly consuming the whole internet
Infact, Drawing should be the last word on your mind when making sprites, because you arent drawing them, your "Pixeling" them
Pixeling (Zooming in really far and controling every pixel of the sprite) is a very different skill from drawing, I can't draw anything half decent to save my life, but my Pixeling is pretty nice
There used to be a great website that I visited with some pixel art forums and some great tutorials on it all, but it seems to have been taken over by one of those parasitic search companies that are slowly consuming the whole internet