Drink Umbrellas as Hats

[Studenterhue]

I tried my hand at spriting a drink umbrella hat. I'd like to say I'm not that good at pixel art; there're many, many things I do not know to do yet, but I'm glad still gave it a try. Also,if someone more talented put up a better version, I wouldn't mind at all. Anyways, clearly shown, I went through quite a few iterations and variations, experimenting with several shapes, perspectives, and sizes.

The reference pictures I looked at had cocktail umbrellas at all sorts of angles; some were a bit oblique, some were directly upward, some were directly horizontal like a bow or pencil, all of which I tried to emulate in the first row and half. In the end, I decided on a sort of 45 degree angle. It seemed very "spacemeny" to put an umbrella on your head all silly like that.

SS13 has a funny scale (stickers, for example, can cover up your face, but in real life, they're obviously not so large), but I was more worried about making it size up as I would expect a air umbrella to. Some versions were too big at 32 x 32 icon size; many were too small for my tastes. I went with a happy medium; umbrella neither too big nor too small, pole wasn't too long, and it looked fairly okay when I tested it with my library of screenshots.

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I'd also like to add that the very talented Gannets has made a whole Discord channel precisely for teaching and helping people who are completely new to spriting (as well as those far beyond completely new). Link is here.