and to think I almost made this comment if I hadn’t continued scrolling!

Also the form of the sprites changed significantly, it was a massive shift in artistic personality and aesthetic direction that the tutorial just called it “not using straight lines”. I think they could have made their point while not swapping in a different set of tastes entirely.

Absolutely. Came here to say exactly the same thing. The first couple of steps were clear and informative. The last step was almost a joke.

I suspect he ran into the infamous '90%' problem: he did the first two and the final end-stage and wrote it down nicely, which took 90% of the time & energy he had, then looked at the difference between the last two and realized that it'd need another like 5 images+explanations and that would take the next 90% of the time... which wasn't going to happen, so he posted it as-is FWIW.

Exactly my thought!

"part of what I enjoy about art is admiring craftsmanship - the skill and knowledge of the artist at work."

I'm a devrel person my art is writing tutorials and guides. And this one is a very naive approach at it.