/vr/ - Retro Games

Am I the only person who hates Thy Flesh Consumed with the deep fiery passion of a thousand suns?!

I know I've asked this before but, how THE FUUUCK do you draw head sprites for the hud?

I just attempted drawing something in GIMP at 500x500 with the intention of shrinking it down, and I was getting nowhere fast. I was even tracing another image, but the lines I made looked like shit and had no flow to them.

Looking at the original doom hud head sprites, even though they're just a few pixels they look like they came from some fairly detailed drawings. I just tried to sketch out in pen on a little notepad roughly what I want, and even though I haven't drawn in YEEAARS (I used to be pretty good when I was a kid) I was able to bang out in a few seconds something that looked better than twenty minutes worth of GIMP work. I think I'm just going to try to draw these out, scan them in, color them in GIMP, then shrink them down. Is that best?

What have other moders done to create custom hud head sprites???

Does anyone know of any kind of weird, funky, miscellaneous reasons why a door may not work? I got this door in my map that will not open and I can't figure out the problem for the life of me. It's starting to drive me mad.