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Phoenixsong does fakemon arts.; Why, yes, as a matter of fact, she does.
Topic Started: Dec 15 2008, 02:14 AM (13,981 Views)
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Freaky like my lady pyramid!

The last time I posted a topic to display my fakes I rambled horribly. I talk too much and need to learn not to do that, durr. So! Here, have the abridged version.

Right. I create fake Pokémon. A lot of them. All told, I've made upwards of 400, but I try not to talk about most of the early ones. :| Lately, though, I've developed something of an unhealthy obsession with revamping some of the salvageable oldies and creating new, less cringe-worthy ones. This includes drawing/redrawing their concept art, some of which I have to show to you today (at stupid-o-clock in the morning, of course). We'll start off with the final stage starters of my current region-project-thing, New Logora.

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(dayum, these things are so cool and spaaarkly o.O)

This is Bossorna. It's sort of based on a bullthorn acacia tree, although it's obviously more bull and thorn than it is tree. Hooray for hallucinogenic tree cows?

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Burungin, the Fire starter. Based on the were-hyena legends of the Bornu people of Niger. Burungin itself can't actually shapeshift, but it can cloak itself in flames and then manipulate said flames into various Terrifying Things.

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And last but most certainly not least, Osgrave. I wanted to create a starter line based on ospreys; I'm not exactly sure how Osgrave turned into a gryphonthing along the way, but I'm not complaining. Gryphonthings make everything better.


I have more that are already finished and ready to display, but I won't bum rush you with them all at once; this way I have more fodder beautiful masterpieces to stall you with update with while I draw new critters.

So... any comments? Any criticism? Oh, I do so love criticism.
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HOLY! Stop stalling! I beg you.... These are.... Holy! I wish I could do that? How do you do that. How do you even make up those ideas!

BLAH! AHHHHHH! Holy. Wow... I'm speechless. Sorry no criticism here.
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Wow, those are some very cool concepts AND art :D I love all of them, i really want to see what they evolve from now :P It'd be pretty interesting, although i have a rough outline on the line...
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Really nice! Burungin is my favorite out of the three.
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*gasps in unison*

Wow, those are great! Not just the drawing, but the coloring and the concepts behind them too! The mask on Burungin seems a little blurry, but other than that, these could be real Pokémon art!

In fact, if you're interested, you could color in one of the billion or so sketches we have lying around. *runs*
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These are fantasic! Brilliant concepts! I'm afraid I can't give much crit in the art, as I'm very unfamiliar with using computer art programs that aren't called MSPaint XD But the shading looks very nice and realistic, great job!
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Awesome art, kudos to you Pheonixsong!
Also, don't you mean that you love critiquing, not criticism?
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Freaky like my lady pyramid!

o.O waow. So much admiration at once, it hurts D:

...:D

And now for the daunting task of responding to you all individually, hm.

Error: Thank you! Oh, come now, I'm sure you can come up with creative ideas. I don't usually try that hard; while sometimes I do sit down and say, "Okay, I need a Pokémon that has x, y and z," most of the time I'm doing something totally unrelated and then I'll get hit with "Hey! That might make a pretty cool Pokémon!" out of the blue, and run with it from there. Just take inspiration from wherever it comes from, I guess? :/ Dunno if I can really give advice about getting ideas, but something good always comes to you eventually.

Scizordoom: Why, thank you! I'll post the rest of the lines soon, so I suppose you can see if your hunches are correct then. :P

Phoenix: *gasp*

*appreciates your gasping*

Tyreximus: Thanks! I like Burungin a lot, too. I don't know if it's my favorite, personally. I really like it, hyenas and Fire-types, but I think Bossorna's artwork came out the best (and there's just something about the phrase "hallucinogenic tree cow", I dunno) and Osgrave is the oldest and I'm actually able to use it in a game on a different forum... Argh, so hard to choose between my baaaabies~

Trainer X: *appreciates your gasp as well*

Thank you! I'm not sure I see what you mean about Burungin's mask being blurry; could you maybe be a little more specific? I mean, I don't know whether it's worth going back to fix this picture at this point, but perhaps so I could avoid doing... whatever I did the next time I draw it.

I might be able to color some OI Pokémon in, or maybe just draw and color some myself. I'd be honored to, in fact. I was just recruited to draw/design Pokémon for a fangame elsewhere (one of the ones that Riceeman is working on, actually), and I run a request thread on another forum, but as soon as I bang out a proper work schedule for myself and my holiday break starts properly I should probably be able to find time, sure. Just tell me what you need and I'd be happy to see what I can do for you.

Novoni: Thanks! It means a lot to hear something like that coming from a respected artist like you. Of course, you do an entirely different kind of artwork that I could never, ever do in ever, but still, thanks!

Chronicler: Thank you. And no, I mean criticism: I love receiving constructive criticism on my artwork so I can improve. Not that I don't like critiquing other people's artwork and helping them improve as well, but that wasn't what I was talking about.

Hm, well, anyway. I'll post the previous stages soon, but they aren't all done; I have the Fire and Water lines finished (I'm not so thrilled with the artwork for the Fire line, but they're designed, anyway), but I only just semi-finalized the basic design for the Grass basic and stage one earlier today. I think I'll wait until I'm done with those two before posting them all. In the meantime...

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Icauriole, the final stage of New Logora's early bird line. I don't really know much about them yet other than this: orioles are pretty birds and need moar fakemons.

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Jackravage, a male-only evolution for Buneary and pretty much my most popular deviation on deviantART for reasons I cannot explain. I like it, sure, but... what exactly did I do? This guy and the next one don't currently belong to any of my fanregions; they probably will end up in New Logora anyway, but I need to flesh the regional dex out with other stuff first.

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And Ramfere, my most recent completed fakemon pic (that wasn't for someone else, anyway) and, in my opinion, my best to date. It's an alternate evolution for Flaaffy. It isn't really "???-type" or anything like that; I still haven't decided whether I want it to be straight Electric, Electric/Fighting or something else. Some folks on another forum suggested Electric/Dark, which I'm also considering, although I think I like Electric/Fighting better. Thoughts?


(It isn't a problem for me to be posting these images directly, is it? That's not what I usually do anyway, so if I'm crashing anyone's browser please let me know and I'll stuff them all behind links.)
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Suddenly great artists are flocking to OI, I wonder why.

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You're one of the best fakemon drawers I've seen (and believe me I've seen many good ones, but most of them aren't nearly as good as you). I can't criticize much, as I'm not much of an artist (well I am in some ways, but not in this way).
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Ramfere. . . I love you. Plus Osgrave. ._____.

I can't critique these at all, they're awesome.
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Suddenly great artists are flocking to OI, I wonder why.

*jaw drops*
You're one of the best fakemon drawers I've seen (and believe me I've seen many good ones, but most of them aren't nearly as good as you). I can't criticize much, as I'm not much of an artist (well I am in some ways, but not in this way).
Good, i'm not the only one who noticed..

I love the bird :P GIMME!!!! *throws a masterball obtained from a pie* Yeah i'd so use it in a team as mmy flying type! Which means i'd choose the fire starter... Oh and i'd also catch a Buneary so i can have Jackravage.

Ramfere also sounds like Fear(If i'm saying it right...) So electric/dark would work. Fighting would be awesome though.
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Freaky like my lady pyramid!

shadow_rukario: Then you clearly haven't seen a lot of the fakemon artists out there, heh. I'm hardly as good as plenty of people I can name. Sometimes I wish I could wake up and magically be comfy_cushion or BlueGhosty, or at least steal their amazing artpowers. But thank you anyway!

Reznal: Sankyuu, sankyuu.

Scizordoom: Thanks again.

Actually, the "fere" part is pronounced a little more like "fair", as in the word "ampere". But Ramfere is a pretty scary dude, yeah. :P

Um, lessee. Howzabout... the... fossil line next. Is good? Okay is good.



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Dyrascal, one of the region's two fossils (I haven't figured out what I want to do with the other one yet). It eats faces for breakfast, but it's so cute that I don't think its victims really care!

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Dyrascal's evolution, Dyferal. My least favorite of the line, but almost everyone else's favorite. I do not know why. :/

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And the final stage (yes, three; I felt like being different), Dybelial. It eats faces, too, but I'm guessing people care a little more when they see this thing coming at them.


There will probably be some OI fakes here in the near future (after I'm done stalling), thanks to some prodding from Trainer X.
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Wow, great sprites one and all. Dybelial is probably my least favorite, as it looks more like a dragon with a tan then a rock dragon. But all of them are good.

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I saw this on the Acanthite forums. I thought I was an ok Fakemon artist, yet this shows how wrong I was. They're amazing, although the Bird looks slightly fuzzy, not that I can talk. Jackravage is amazing, and I love all the Final starters.
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For the flaafy evo I'm only seeing electric dark or pure electric. Where are you picking up the fighting? Now that bird of yours.... WOW! Jackravage ain't bad! I can see why he is alot of people's favorites. The concept is original, and the drawing is a great concept.

I've always wondered where the three line prehistoric Pokémon were! What did they not evolve yet? I like yours. I think the last two in that line are my favorite. Probobly the middle one (cause its pose is the best)!

I really doubt I could make up any good conepts. And even if I could, their is NO chance I can bring it to life the way you do. I'll follow your style. Who knows it might work out. As for coloring it in... Still not sure how to do that.
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Angels & Insects: I guess Scizordoom already corrected you, but yeah, they aren't sprites. ^^; Spriting is that stuff that Novoni is such a goddess at and that I could never, ever do well in a million years. And eh, well, I didn't really want to cover Dybelial or its previous stages in rocks; I think it looks better, more sleek and speedy, without big stones sticking up out of it. More fitting of a big scary dinosaur that isn't especially defensive, I thought. Rampardos doesn't have rocks sticking out of it, either, and I like Rampardos... And gray is such a boring color. Most Rock-types are gray. I thought the beige was a nice touch. *shrug* To each his own, though, and thank you.

Scizordoom: Thanks. Urk, my dA, heh... well, I suppose you already saw that last journal entry, but yeah, I almost never update it. I've been meaning to add a few of my more recent fakes to it, but I wanted to continue with the little Pokédex cards I was working on and I haven't finished any of the recent ones satisfactorily yet.

Riceeman: Come now, Riceeman, your artwork isn't bad at all. (And I really envy your spriting skills; I wish I could stomach the idea of pixel art long enough to practice at it, but I just can't stand doing it. :/) And it's nice to be working with you on Iridium, by the way.

Yeah, Icauriole's quality isn't as great as the others; part of this is because it's just hard to work with dark gray/black, and part of it is because the image was much too small when I scanned it in and so when I shrunk it down to my usual fakemon art size the lineart didn't reduce enough to look thin and clean. I've had to remind myself constantly to draw larger pictures. There are too-small pictures *kicks Fire starter and its first stage* that came out much worse than that, though. :/

Error: Well, no, it doesn't "look" like a Fighting-type, I guess, but other than the occasional muscly-thing I don't think Fighting can really have a "look". It's all about being physical, tough and aggressive, which is what Ramfere is; it's supposed to be a physical counterpart to the special Ampharos. Other people have said that the sinister appearance makes it look more "dark", but that's not what I was going for usage-wise at all. I mean, sure, there are great Dark-type physical attacks and physical-based Pokémon, but, as I said in another art thread, Dark just doesn't have the whole HULK ANGRY HULK SMASH appeal that Fighting does. Said other thread brought up the fact that Dark contrasts with Ampharos's role as a lighthouse beacon, which is really the only reason I'm still considering it because that sounds interesting; I still think it sounds a little too special-based, and from a competitive standpoint (because I do battle competitively and like to think of my Pokémon that way) Electric/Fighting is a superior typing with fewer weaknesses and much better type coverage with STAB moves. I probably will go with Fighting in the end, but I still need to see if it's possible to work the anti-lighthouse bit in and what other ideas I can come up with.

Don't sell yourself and your ideas short, man! Honestly, if you play around with it enough just about anything can make a decent Pokémon. Besides, it's your Pokémon, so it can be whatever you want it to be. I know it sounds all sappy and stuff to say that, but when you're making junk up for the heck of it, in the end there really aren't any rules or bad ideas as long as you're satisfied with it.

And whoa, there, tiger, "my style"? Haha, no, I'm just trying to imitate Ken Sugimori. This isn't "my style" at all; most of my other work looks totally different, trust me. If you want to practice emulating Sugimori, there are a few good tutorials around deviantART, so you can look there and then adapt those however it makes you feel comfortable. There's nothing wrong with practicing your own style, though!

*breathes* ANYWAY, Trainer X asked me to color in the lineart for two of the OI Pokémon, and I finished them a little while ago. Most of you should already know this anyway, but I did not draw these, and full credit goes to Tyreximus and S.S Tahmino for their lovely original drawings. (And nice and large, by the way; I'm really grateful for that, it's so much easier to work with and comes out much cleaner when you shrink it down.) I did make a few minor edits so that Toulav's feet looked a little more birdlike and so its wings matched what I think I saw in the sprite, but if you need me to change it back then that shouldn't be difficult.


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CONCEPT ART! Oh sick! We haven't had one really completed concept art for along time. Other than the two Okyawoo made. Good job. There isn't really much more I can say...
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<3 <3 <3 Toulaaaavvvv... and TOTOWER!

For not shading rocks or stuff like that a whole lot, he turned out excellent! And you captured Toulav's charm perfectly (I know the other two did in their awesome original sketches, but seeing them in color like that adds a whole other dimension to them, too).
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I wouldn't have suggested coverign it in rocks, that seems cliche. Just that he seems as you said smooth. I'd have gone for a rougher texture onhim (maybe some cliche rock shoulder pads, cause I'm just like that xD) Still think he looks great.

Also, I like Totower and Tollav. The texture on Totower's rocks is great (though it looks a little bit like they're melting xD)
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Those. Are. Epic. The original lineart for all of them is half of the work itself, so I obviously can't give you all of the credit, but the coloring is amazing. Fantastic job!
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Whoa, k, lot to respond to, so we'll just keep most of it short with a blanket "thank you, you guys are too generous, no seriously". :3

Really, though, I'm glad you guys like the way they turned out and that I was able to do them justice.

As for the more specific comments:

Wanderer Shawn: Cool, I've never had worshippers before. You cool with making human sacrifices? :p To answer your question, I draw and ink them by hand and then color them in Photoshop.

Angels & Insects: Could you maybe elaborate a little more on why they look like they're melting? Some suggestions on how to prevent that in the future would be cool.

thedude27: Yes. Von Karma. Wow, I had no idea there were so many other PW fans around here. But there should be. Because PW makes everything better!

k so I don't really like the first one I'm going to show you, and it needs a crazy-huge revamp--better artwork, draw it larger next time, simpler, less terrifying design, etc.--but I guess I'll include it with the other two for completeness's sake.

These are also Water starters, but they don't currently belong to any region; I'll stuff them somewhere eventually. They're based loosely on water bears, which are pretty much the best animals ever. Their appearance and that last sentence seem to confuse a lot of people, so for your edjumacashunal enrichment: [url]water bears, the best animals ever[/url].



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ugh ugh UGH *stabs eyes* must fix but I'm so busy... ahem, I mean, this is Tedigrae and it's supposed to be cute but I hate its guts and will be taking an axe to it when I have the time. Thank you, come again.

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Actually I'm sort of not thrilled with Brugid here either, but at least it doesn't make me want to kick a puppy. I'll probably redraw it but not actually redesign it, hm.

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Endruin here I actually like, but there are still several problems with the picture and the colors and so it, too, will probably be redrawn.
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I want to kill it soooo much >_____> I don't really like these guys as much as your other work. The lines aren't very nice (Again, I can't talk) and they look smudgy like the oriole. As for the concepts, I love Brugid, but Tedigrae's face is weird. it has no ears and it's mouth and nose...and eyes...Endruins is pretty cool. So yeah. Wowo, I can't believe I actually criticized you...I should be shot...
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*shoots* Blasphemer! You will be the first human sacrifice!

Kidding, kidding. People who can't take criticism are pansies. Nothing's perfect, and I really appreciate any sort of input. Honestly. ;) As a matter of fact, out of all the people that have bothered to comment on these three anywhere I've displayed them you're the only one who actually agrees with me.

Anyway, I think that's just about everything that's done so far, aside from those other starters I'm still not ready to put up yet and a hideous baby Pokémon I wish I'd never invented because I hate the whole lot of them anyway. I'm working on some more OI stuff at the moment, but in the meantime the last set I have for you are these three. They aren't mine; they're the starters for a fangame, Pokémon Iridium. Riceeman has sprites of the Fire and Water starters in his thread here, actually, although the Grass starter has changed since he posted those. I don't think he's posted the new one here yet. But yeah, anyway.


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Oh my god, you turned my sprites into three big pools of awesomeness...They're perfect. Putrish, which has always been the favourite ever concept that I've made, has been transformed into some awesomness....Argh, I can't describe it! They're just so brilliant! Brilliant work Pheonix!
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WOW! I kind of agree that Tedigrae looks really awkward, but Bossoma, Osgrave, Icauriole and Endruin are all amazing, amazing!

Also Toulav and Totower are so awesome too!

You're really talented, your lineart and your art in general is really clean and your shading is beautiful!
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Oh, I do so love it when people are honest about stuff like that. Really. Thanks, you guys.

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OOOOOO a great job on this one. The colours are great and the idea is unique. He is tilted on purpose right? Anyways good job I like this one ALOT. Can't wait for the OI stuff.
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Yeah, it's a bit of an awkward stance, but I think it turned out okay.

Bit of a sneak-peek of things to come, if you will. ;3

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SICK! All though I feel like the front paws are a little off. The bottom one is worse off, somethign just makes it feel more like a hoof than a paw. And the one in the air, its not bad it deffinitly can remain, but it looks more like a human hand that a tigers paw. Anyways its still fantastic!
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SICK! All though I feel like the front paws are a little off. The bottom one is worse off, somethign just makes it feel more like a hoof than a paw. And the one in the air, its not bad it deffinitly can remain, but it looks more like a human hand that a tigers paw. Anyways its still fantastic!
The one on the ground looks like is is made up of claws XD It seems to be missing the actual paw.

Still i love it, and Novoni will most probably die in disbelief :P
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Yeah, that's about right Scizor XD

That's awesome, I love his face, and the little jewels, he looks fantastic! His "toes" are supposed to be black like that, those aren't his claws. The only thing I really see is that I wasn't planning on having his back legs all white, I imagined the red coming part way down like... uh...

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kinda how the blue does there. But I realize you can't tell on the sprite since the tail's in the way, so it's no big deal, I still adore it.

Rasqueon is an awesome concept, as well, I really like how you did the plates overlapping.
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Awesome Clarimata, I love the expression!

What's the brush you used to get the fur shading? It looks really nice and I might want to try using it myself! (I've never really gotten how to use brushes properly in Photoshop, just pencil tool, layers and random blending options)
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Actually, IB, it's the exact same 45-65px soft-edged brush I used for the rest of the shading; I just took the smudge tool at a small size (usually 9-13px) and went over the edges to make it look fluffy. I do it here and there on some other areas of shading/highlight, too (if I don't get sick of the picture before I remember to, that is); I just kind of go overboard on areas that are supposed to be furry so that it... looks... furry. :p It's nothing complicated or special or extra at all.

Don't have anything new that's actually colored, but in the meantime there's this one I didn't put up before.

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Not brilliant, and I only just now realized how dull it looks (guess I went a little overboard with the desaturation there), but yeah.


Anyway, if you look closely at Flareth here you can see what I was talking about with the shading. The ruff around its neck and the tuft on its head have a lot of ragged edges, but its knee, for example, has just a little bit to make it look less round and perfect. All of it's just pulling out the edges with the smudge tool, nothing more.
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Ah, my friend does that with hair on her drawings. (She does people)

Anyway, I still like the one you just posted up, though the tail seems a bit awkward (perhaps too round, perfect, upright?)

Also, what do you do the lineart with?
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That is amazing, once again Phoenixsong. It really puts more into Flareth but i do believe that's the point of concept art, right?
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OH SICK! I like it. You put Flareth in a new light. Like I never really use to think of Flereth in that kind of a pose, with that kind of an anatomy. I like it. Its fantastic.
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Whew, it's been a while, hasn't it?

Thanks, you guys, I'm glad you liked it. There are a few... others I've done, but you'll have to wait a little longer to see those. ;)

Well, IB, I draw the lineart by hand, just sketching with a pencil. Then I ink it, scan it in, do a little fiddling with it in Photoshop and start coloring. Can't use my tablet, and anyway I tend to like drawing traditionally more. I have been experimenting with the pen tool, especially for pictures that have really tiny sketches that will look bad if scanned and colored as they are (as you are about to see... ugh) and that I don't think I'll be able to redraw as well as the original, but I'd rather not use it if I don't have to.

The newest things I have that are available to show off are, unfortunately, only quick concept sketches, but you can look at them if you like.

I've also realized that I currently have no motivation to work on the first two stages of the Grass starter, especially since I'm so busy drawing fakes for other fangames and stuff, so it'll probably be a while before you see those; I'm just going to go ahead and post the Fire and Water ones now, then. Excuse the poor quality of the two Fire-types; those are excellent examples of images that are really too small to work with the way I work with the others (and, if you're viewing on a dark style, great examples of that PNG-8 vs. PNG-24 thing I was talking about in Novoni's topic). Prime candidates for a touch-up with the pen tool, in other words, when I have a little more free time.



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Latikrai, a sea snake Pokémon--more specifically, a sea krait. They're pretty cool snakes, if you wanna go look them up. It's simple, but eh, it gets the job done.

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And this is Latikrai's still-simple but more-interesting-even-in-its-simplicity evolved form, Kraitra. The three heads come from the Hindu story of the snake monster Vritra, who stole all of the world's water. Which Kraitra... cannot do, but hey, it looks cool and I like snakes so I don't really care.

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Quick and simple doodle of "Bucarat", who is cute and whose name I do not like. It's a plague rat. I felt like Pokémon needed a plague rat. I'm still working on how to incorporate the "bubonic plague fleas" without making it a Bug-type as well. I'll figure something out eventually.

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And Telago, Bucarat's evolution. (I really don't know why I've been on such a Poison-type kick lately... apparently I like the type more than I realize.)


Eh, on second thought, that's already four pictures, so the starters will have to come some other time. Maybe I can fix the Fire ones first...
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This is not a double post. [/jedi mind trick]

In all seriousness, though, it's been a few days and I've got a little somethin'-somethin' for the birthday party... actually, I drew it before this, but now I think I'm actually allowed to show it to you all. ;p Think I should be all right.


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It doesn't have a name yet, but it wubs you anyway.
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Its fantastic. Wonderful. Extraordinary. Wow!
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*kicks self for not seeing this topic earlier*
*hides in corner because I fail*

It's like...a cute dinosaur. Like the kind that you might see at some little kid's birthday party. It's good but not quite the same quality as other stuff in this topic (Clarimata, Flareth, the vicious dinosaurs and your water gryphon). Those ones are epic, awesome, and divine at the same time.

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Long, long live the walls we crashed through~
All the kingdom lights shined just for me and you~
And I was screaming, "long live all the magic we made"~
And bring on all the pretenders, I'm not afraid~
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Oh, come on, I wish people would stop kicking themselves over this stuff. :/ I'm flattered, but really, give yourselves more credit.

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