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Fakemon/Fake evo creators: Attention!

My recent reblog of a compilation of fake evolutions for the Alola starters has gotten some attention so I’m making this post to clarify my point, as well as to inform artists about a peculiar detail in official Pokemon starter designs. Despite being nearly omnipresent it is almost always ignored by artists, which is why I want everyone to pay attention now.

The thing is: Starter pokemon’s colors almost always change tint as they evolve!

Below is my breakdown of all the known starters so far. The palettes have been taken from the most recent official arts and are in order from the most prominent color to the least prominent.

(you can examine it or just quickly scroll through, my point is written under it)

Alright, so in total we have 18 starter pokemon, 16 of which change their palette in some way during their evolution line. Little changes do matter! Grovyle is deeper green than Treecko, and Torchic gets its main and secondary color swapped in addition to leg color change after evolving into Combusken. Making small changes to color palette along the evolution line is a must if you’re going for an official-looking style.

!Important! Many fanartists add a feature to the second evo, which will pass onto the final evo as a more dramatic feature. (I’ve seen this way too many times)This is actually rather rare in the starters, as only 5 of them have been that way. More common is that the final evolution has something the two previous ones did not - 10 of the starters follow this pattern.

Another death trap is making the evo line too linear both color and design wise. (like these two) Typhlosion and Feraligatr are the only starters to highly resemble their first forms in both aspects. It is EXTREMELY unusual for the first evolution to have a feature that directly indicates what the prominent nieche of the final evolution will be.

Final words: For me as a visual artist things like this are easier to notice, but I figured it could help other people out in making their starter designs more creative and believable. I hope you found it useful!

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hii!! i dont think ill ever get enough of your art honestly, the shape/forms and colors in your art is soooo nice to look at (especially your pokemon designs)!! im wondering if you'd be open to sharing your planning process and stuff for that? have a wonderful day, thank you!!! 💖💖

This was requested by many people. I wouldn't call it a tutorial due to being rather simple, but I hope you enjoy it anyway!

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How I deal with shapes

@spadefish @kobothesmall So for shapes, the way I work with them is from studying how things break down individually, instead of following a broader ruleset for character design that you see a lot in tutorial posts (the triangle, square, circle theorem basically).

The way shapes work in humans is different from other animals (which also differ from each other), which is different from objects. The same shape can be used for different goals depending on what you're drawing. So there's no one size fits all, and especially in styles that have a bit more of realism going on, those shapes will behave differently than extremely cartoony styles.

Process wise, a lot of it ends up happening in my head than in the canvas, because I spent years dealing with this shape philosophy of "just bang your head for each thing you're drawing", which I understand is very tedious to some people, but I love studying individual things vs following tutorials because it teaches me 1. how that thing works in a context 2. gives me a new book to my visual library which I can pull from, which is often what happens! That, and a lot of it is just staring at references too. Still, I'll try to draw something up for this.

There are 2 ways to approach shape design. You either start with the shapes and then apply a concept to it, or you start with a concept and apply shapes to it. The former is much harder to do without practice (and also comes more in concept art which is rough, unfinished and meant to be done and redone dozens of times by design). So, I tend to do the latter: I start with a concept of what I want. This can be as simple as "I just want a character that's fat/standing" or more abstract like "I want a character that feels like a river/I want this to feel like an outburst".

Let's start with a concrete concept: I want a design that looks like a pacman frog, and just a standing pose that isn't too stiff.

I grab some pacman frog references, and sometimes if the pose is complex, I'll find references for that too. Pacman frogs are pretty pudgy, and their legs aren't that long compared to most frogs, even when unfolded, and their faces have a nice triangle-ish forehead with a nice shape for the mouth.

The result is that i use large shapes for most of the body. Curves contrast with sharper lines, giving the sense of something geometric but still organic. The line of action here helps me pose these shapes in a way that gives some movement to something as simple as standing (and you'll gain a lot of mileage from learning how to rotate shapes! this is how you're able to position them in different ways and create more dynamic poses).

For something more abstract, like a crouched pose meant to be angry, I take some references when i can and start doing something like this:

Note that these shapes seem weird because I'll have a naked fullbody wip below any clothed characters to have some anatomical guidance, but for actual final shapes and silhouette, what matters is the final elements, and that includes clothes! so i try to build shapes that emphasize this droopy, closed off feeling. This sketch isn't even that good really, there's plenty of errors, but I hope it gives an idea of whats going on.

I hope this weird rambly nonsense helped LOL

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What is your creative process when you create these fakemon? And what whas the first one that you made?

(First, I love getting asks like these. thanks!)

So I don’t make every fakemont the exact same way, but first I start with a basic idea whether it’s a specific animal or type or concept to base it off of. Usually it ends up changing by the end. Let me explain with how I created Blubouy, mostly because I actually managed to find various sketches!

so from the idea (In this case a Water/Flying Blue-Fotted Booby) I usually pile up a bunch of reference images I want to incorporate in its design, and just start goofing around with what I think it should look like

At this state I just try to figure out body shape and details, seeing what would look good and what not.

(Rest under readmore because this is a looooot longer then I thought it would be!)

Keep reading

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My silly fakémons Pickerpie & Snagpie! I had sm fun trying to recreate fake gifs inspired by the anime recently, I can't wait to do more :3

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recent colored pencil drawings

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Tumblr Tuesday: Pretty Pretty Please I don't Want to be a Magical Girl

Pretty pretty please join us in enjoying this collection of sublime fanart for @kianamaiart's Pretty Pretty Please I don't Want to be a Magical Girl. If you haven't yet seen the pilot animatic, you can watch it here if you like—it's really very good. Thank you to Kiana and all of your fans for these delightful visual treats! We can't wait to follow along for more Aika, Zira, Hoshi, and co. <3

@hannatsunari:

@heilos:

@watercups:

@danicalzone:

@bigbababooeyboobies:

@muub1:

@ylvert:

@s0upjuice:

@maelicgrn:

@southpauz:

@peteytheparrot:

@dangergggg:

@androsartstuff:

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I watched the idwtbamg pilot (amazing btw, the creator's @kianamaiart go check them out) and I couldn't get the idea of Zira becoming a temporary magical guardian at some point, or even maybe an au with a similar concept (shhhh I'm scheming)

This is the concept my brain came up with.

Design breakdown:

Hair - very moon sailor inspired. How are the pendants floating? Magic. Moved the loops to the top of the head, (partially for MS look, partially for rabbit motif :3 ) It took me a while to figure out the ends of the braids, (was testing lily of the valley motif) but I like how it turned out, and they kinda look like bunny ears so yayyyy. The hair edges are to mimic MS fringe.

Outfit - very MS look, but more practical (longer skirt, pants underneath, platforms instead of heels, ect) Added the tail coat while trying to make the torso look less empty, same with middle band. The bow is a bit more of the rabbit look.

Accessories - gloves are thumbless for convenience (never know what you need to grip something) Shoes are basically just MS, same with earrings. I added the headband because the forehead looked really empty without it, and her reg outfit has a beanie so it's a bit strange to see them without it.

The pearls are just me noticing that they have one string of them on her outfit and going overboard from there. They were also a bitch to shade, but eh they look pretty, the headpiece is just Aikas but with pearls.

It's definitely not finished, and needs a few more passes to refine it, but my hand hurts and I'm tired as fuck so I'm going to binge Ginjaninja and pass out

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Redo my least favorite page I colored from two years ago. Alcohol markers are tricky to work on, but I trust the process of fixing it with prismacolor colored pencils.

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Colored a new spongebob coloring page recently. :)

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can you believe she ran away from it all?

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mewtwos gift from his assigned school counselor

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Redraw #rayquaza from last December with #ohuhu markers with the garnet #copic sketch marker. #pokemon #drawing

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I don't want to be a magical girl! ⭐

Hello!! I did something

This is my second attempt at a walk cycle and the second time I actaully go through all the process of animation (Clean up, color, "compositing")

I'm so so proud of this!!

Halfway through I realized I should've picked an easier model (because Im a baby yet), so I kinda simplified her design in order to finish it. One day I hope to make something using the right outfit with all the details//

Character and story by @/kianamaiart <3

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"The reign of Mewtwo will soon begin!"

So, um, I'm still riding high from yesterday with meeting the og English VA, so I went back to my artistic roots for a little bit

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