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hi! this is an ask to the author, hope that's ok! (priv answer is fine too)

i loooove obt! one of my favorite parts is how you give pokemon with parents of different species characteristics of both :o ! is there a way you go about it? how do you decide what would be a good fit? what aspects do you look for to combine? how do you avoid the pokemon from looking too much like a fusion pokemon, but more like still recognizably one pokemon but with other characteristics?

sorry if this is sent to the wrong place! the main blog doesn't have asks open haha, hope you'll have a nice day c:

// I love answering asks out of character!

Generally, the number one thing I look at when designing a character for a PMD comic like OBT is maintaining silhouette and notable traits. It's a very rough estimate I'm kinda pulling out of nowhere, but I think somewhere around 80% of the original species should shine through, and then 20% can be relegated to all those extra fun traits.

So for a character like Inigo, my first go-around with his design looked something like this:

Which while he has the notable traits of Nidorina and Kangaskhan, he was almost entirely missing the silhouette. Plus, the yellow doesn't really help sell "Kangaskhan" since they aren't a standout part of the design. I think the headplate and the pouch do a lot more heavy lifting for the design. So for his first appearance, I nudged him closer to the original Nidorina colors and gave him the Kangaskhan pouch.

And later on, I nudged him towards having more of that Nidorina and Kangaskhan heft in his design- they are by no means dainty looking pokemon!

For Dielle, I wanted to keep her heritage a bit more muddled intentionally. She's a fluffy Meowth, and she has electricity, but where does she get it from? Well for that I turned to her instinctive behavior in battling... Remember this scene in Chapter 3?

Does it look familiar?

She's not quite as dramatic since she didn't inherit nearly as much of that power, but the hints are still there!

Usually my thought process for choosing which pokemon to pair together is something along the lines of: - Do I have too many hybrid pokemon currently? (Yes this is a consideration lol, but the next few steps might make me change my mind) - Are there reasons for a character to not be a hybrid? (Based on worldbuilding, background, if it would just muddle the story... For example, I originally intended for Moxie to be part Marowak, but I decided to keep her as a vanilla Nidoqueen so Inigo's heritage wouldn't get too confusing as our first clear introduction to a hybrid character.) - Are there pokemon with type similarities or design motifs that would play well together? - Does it look cool?

And finally, I make sure not to combine more than two pokemon at once. Maybe I can do some little markings or give them some moves from a distant relative or another parent to hint at something else in the mix, but if you add too much to the pot it's gonna be hard to pick out those added traits.

And then if I decide to go through with a design, I take all those points into consideration while working on it! But a lot of time I kinda go with my gut. Like for Julius, when Sun and Moon were announced (all the way back during preboot OBT days), I always thought Lycanroc's midnight form looked a lot like Skuntank's cool hair! So I just smashed them together.

Sometimes, I just throw stuff at a wall to see what sticks. Which is what I did for Grovyle! He was originally going to be part Chikorita, but I wanted to go with something more visually interesting with his design.

And some pokemon only have distant ancestry implied! Wigglytuff has a Clefable grandparent, which manifests on him as star-shaped markings. (What's that? Clefable doesn't have markings? I like to think of it as theming lol)

But sometimes, I just like to mash my favorite pokemon together! Like this character who will show up someday- I won't show an actual image of them until they show up, but in the meantime you can enjoy the party sprite and try figuring out the species here!

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hiii i was wondering how you come up with such dynamic and creative poses? :) your art has so much beautiful movement to it very Cool

i only have a few personal guidelines for myself when it comes to posing a character

first one is making sure my hips and shoulders arent parallel, it makes a pose a lot more natural

the second one is balancing, where i usually use a characters feet as a base and then imagine a line at a 90 degree angle right at the center. for a neutral pose the characters body will be split evenly on both sides of the center line. for furries i may or may not take into account their tails, sometimes its necessary. if its a neutralish upright pose, their heads will almost always be somewhere on that center line.

for less neutral poses, i think about which leg is carrying the most weight. most of the characters body should be on the side of the line with the weight bearing leg

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You probably get asked this a lot, but how do you draw hands? Even when I'm tracing, they look so weird 🙃

I could probably go on and on and on about hands, but here are some key points I compiled! I LOVE drawing hands, and I never hesitate to use my own as a reference

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Something like this would be so colossally helpful. I'm sick and tired of trying to research specific clothing from any given culture and being met with either racist stereotypical costumes worn by yt people or ai generated garbage nonsense, and trying to be hyper specific with searches yields fuck all. Like I generally just cannot trust the legitimacy of most search results at this point. It's extremely frustrating. If there are good resources for this then they're buried deep under all the other bullshit, and idk where to start looking.

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Tutorial on drawing characters/OCs who have some sort of facial paralysis. It doesn't cover all possible variants because I was using mirror as my main reference lawl

Keep in mind that this is an introductory drawing tutorial and has some generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People 👍

Consider supporting me on ko-fi if you find this to be helpful.

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Overview of some topics when it comes to drawing characters who are burn survivors.

DISCLAIMER. Please keep in mind that this is an introductory overview for drawing some burn scars and has a lot of generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People. I'm calling this introductory because I hope to get people to actually do their own research before drawing disabled & visibly different characters rather than just making stuff up. Think of it as a starting point and take it with a grain of salt (especially if you have a very different art style from mine).

Talking about research and learning... don't make your burn survivor characters evil. Burn survivors are normal people and don't deserve to be constantly portrayed in such a way.

edit: apparently tum "queerest place on the internet" blr hates disabled people so much that this post got automatically filtered. cool!

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I was asked how I made the rainbow light effect in my last piece, so I put together a quick step by step.

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Patreon: [patreon.com/lunaartgallery]

If you want to see a specific tutorial from me, leave suggestions below! I’m trying to do more broad concepts, rather than anatomy stuff. I’m not the best person to ask about anatomy, I’ll be focusing on my cartooning skills and designing stuff. I also have small animation tutorials :D

I’ll post the tips publicly but my reference material and examples will be Patreon exclusive. If you like these tips and want to see more, support my Patreon! It allows me to focus on more material like this and I would really appreciate it .

Thanks! ——-—— Devi: [deviantart.com/miss-noidentity] Twitter: [@LunaArt_Gallery] Instagram: [@lunaartgallerys]

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How to Paint Light by jonhuangart

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Had an impromptu chat with @ushi418 about fashion history the other day- thought I’d post it here as a quick ref for people!

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back in the 00s a single dancing anime chibi gif would feed us for months on end

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really helpful technique ^ once you know how to divide by halves and thirds it makes drawing evenly spaced things in perspective waaay easier:

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People often say to me: “You draw like some kind of inhuman machine.  If I eat your brain, will I gain your power?”  The answer is yes, but there is another way. The key to precise drawing is building up muscle memory so that your arm/hand/fingers do the things you want them to do when you want them to do them.  Teaching yourself to draw a straight line or to make sweet curves is just a matter of practice and there are some exercises you can do to help improve. If you’re going to be doodling in class or during meetings anyway, why not put that time to good use?

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btw. i made this quick guide of some of the natural size and proportion reference points in the human body. of course this all varies even irl, and you can stylize however you want, so ymmv but thought it might be helpful for some folks.

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Throwback thursday to when I was like 12 and I was putting out new writing DAILY...... Like entire Chapters of my then-current wips just, over an afternoon. What the fuck was I on

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as requested on my stream, a simple water tutorial!

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Excellent tutorial to drawing cubby body types

“Some chubby guide for y’all!”

Source: paggiart on twitter