Even if you want to create a sprite to fit into a single Pokémon class, you may want to borrow from Pokémon of several classes to create your sprite. If you want to create an electric Pokémon with a body like Voltorb’s, you may want to give it a shock aura that looks similar to Gasly’s gaseous aura or projections resembling Bulbasaur’s whip-like tendrils.
You may also wish to save your selection of images, so that if you make a mistake, you don’t have to recapture the images when starting over. Some images will display a black background when copied onto the canvas of your graphic editor program. For those images, you’ll need to erase or repaint the background to match the canvas, or use the option to make the background transparent when pasted if such an option is available.
You may want to flip or rotate the part to make it better fit onto the base Pokémon before attaching it, such as if you want to use Feraligatr’s head spikes as chin or belly spikes for a sprite made from Voltorb’s body. In some cases, you may want to erase away the body of the donor Pokémon, leaving only the part you want to attach to your sprite. For example, Voltorb and Gastly are both ball-shaped, so if you want to put Gasly’s aura on Voltorb, you can erase Gasly’s body, leaving only its aura.
One coloring technique you can use is to set up your erase feature to erase in the color you want to paint the sprite and use it instead of one of the brush settings.
