+3 to Smithing (Patreon)

In between mapping Jazzy recently took the initiative in reminding me that although I made the current Doublade sprite, I was never really super happy with it. I was still somewhat getting used to making Pokemon battle sprites for 6th gen and Doublade was a complex design, so it ended up being more than a bit bigger than it should've been. I'd been intending to redo it for a while but kept shoving it to the back burner.

Well, then Jazzy found some pretty usable sprite bases to work from-- they were pretty messy, but I started tweaking with them to see if it might be workable, and then a few hours later (and getting a new Honedge to match the change in size (Aegislash was size-appropriate since it's the final evo)) we've got the above-- new sprites on the left, old ones on the right. They did the shinies, I did the cleaning for the base. I'm pretty happy with these, and I'll be glad to circulate the old ones out in E17.