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>>2202453
>What tool do you guys use to make sprites?

I'm not a good spriter, but I use photoshup.

>Is there a good way I can scan in drawings I make with pencil/paper then work off that?

Eriance had a tutorial about how to do that, but all the images are broken.
Suffice to say, yes, there is a way--I believe it boiled down to "draw outlines/basic details of all the frames on paper, scan it in, draw over it in photoshup".

>Third question, should I keep the sprites about what the orginal doom sprites are at around 50-70 pixels tall and 30-40 wide?

Whatever you're comfortable with. You can scale down sprites you made at a larger size via the actor, which is different from normal Photoshup scaling because all the pixels are left intact--they're just made smaller.
For demonstration, pictured is the Yakuza enemy from DemonSteele.
From left to right, it's Doomguy, Yakuza scaled down to match Doomguy's height, and the original sprite size.

Just keep in mind that the smaller the sprite size, the harder it is to take care of finer details.