CORBANWOLF'S PROFILE

Hey
Recently been thinking about drawing some sprites, but not only walking in 4 directions but some advanced actions like striking with a sword or other weapons and it turns out I am crap at drawing characters in action. I have no problem with drawing them in idle state, however when I need to show some movement or some action the character doing the result is always mediocre.

So here's my question. How do you draw your sprites for attack and other actions? Do you look at a picture and try to redraw it? Or just intuitively from imagination? Is it bad to look at reference picture and draw what you see? I was thinking of grabbing some long item and record myself, my movement and then redraw myself in pixel as character sprite. What are your advices for that?

Hello
I was making characters with dimensions 35x51 per one sprite. Why? Because it was comfortable to me to draw them in this size. But I thinking that I won't find any software that will support this dimensions or just software that I could adjust grid for this dimensions per tile for example 35x35 so I'm now thinking about redrawing them with dimensions that could be suitable for rpg maker software. And I'm wondering in which exactly size. In RM VX the diemnsions are propably 32x32 but I could stretch to more like 32x48. But What about RM MV, dimensions are propably 48x48 so there is my question. Should I make sprites with 32 or 48. I want my sprites to be universal and suitable for the newer and newest programs. Will 32pixel spriter be replaced with 48?

What program can I use when I do my own tiles which are 35px x 35px dimension.