A tiny Spriting Tutorial

So I came across a comment from a year ago where I promised to do some pointers on spriting avatars. I uh... I guess I never did that and I still haven't... because I started these two for that purpose, but they're smaller than avs, and I actually finished the sprites before I remembered I was making a tutorial and then worked backwards to give you this. This is a pretty brisk overview of how I do small sprites and sprites without my mouse, such as my avatar now, and [link] that one. There are tons of ways to do sprites, but for fullbody critters 50x50 and under, I like this style.