How to draw pocketstation characters ? like those old school ff4/3/5 characters

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example

(from arielgroove)
http://www.shoryuken.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=1629386

there’s one in rival schools … but i want to make that as an avatar .

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i just did with edge …few minutes ago … pretty suck