FF6 Curse of the Gods - full game hack project

No, it was something like a ~240x240 jpeg, hence i opened it on paint and shrinked it to 25% of his original size, obviously the resolution fucked up, then i put the original image(not skrewed) in the left half of the screen and paint in the right part, then i manually used the pencil and gradually redrawn above it, using the skrewed image as model to know his shape, position and combination of colors...
I picked the 16 colors from the skrewed sprite which looked to me the most representative and eventually tweaked/eliminated them when i wasn't convinced or when i realized i picked some extra color.

That's why he's already drawn with the shade of the original image.

Ps. i must say that since i outlined the sprite i was already satisfied with the result... despite it might disappoint you a bit i guess that the first screenshot will be the official version, for now.