Art For Pokemon

Hello!!! As so I have heard you can get pokemon by making fan art. So I thought, why not upload some art and wow you.

 

Art for Sewaddle.

Hope I get one

 

Art for Purrloin

 

Art for Fletchling

 

Art for Binacle.

Not the best but I will edit later. I didn't have time to finish.

 

Art for Baltoy

The artistic Baltoy

Completed

 

Art for Trapinch

The Bug and the Trapinch.

There once was a trapinch who lived in a hole. He was very lonely, for he was the only one who lived there. But then came a bug. That crawled down into the hole. He crawled onto the trapinch's head and began playing music on a tiny violin. The trapinch was happy and listened to the bugs song. Soon the bug and the Trapinch became friends, and the bug everyday would always play his music.

Completed

 

Art for gulpin

How to feed a gulpin

 

Claiming Sewaddle.

 

So I got it?

 

No. I'm claiming to curate it. Look at other peoples' work to see how it's done. You get a score once I'm done evaluating, after which I'll say if you caught it or not.

 

@Raveg64;

Sewaddle Curation

I went a little longer on this one because you may be able to use something I said in your other art.

Form

In general, Sewaddle's form looks okay. Anatomy is pretty important in art like this since it shows the artist's attention to detail. There are a couple of things off about this one, but that's not super bad, especially at Simple rank. Sometimes you can take creative liberties if making it look realistic/some other theme like an adaptation, but when you don't, its a good idea to stay as true to real form as possible.

The big things that I noticed off with anatomy is that the double notch on the top of Sewaddle's head is missing and that its body is actually green and not cream-colored. Yours sort of looks more like a Weedle with some strange leaf coverings, which could make for an interesting story but isn't very anatomically correct.

The eyes could also be a little lower on its head, as they're sort of supposed sit with the bottom curve halfway through the nose/mouth area. Along with that, Sewaddle has a white underbelly that curves up on the face around the mouth area, so that can help you judge where to put things like eyes too. Sewaddle also only has 6 legs total, making it three on each side.

One thing I wasn't sure on was the dark green part in the center of its head leaf. I'm assuming it's supposed to be a piece of shading, but the sharp outlines around it makes me think not as well. If it is some shading, pressing harder on the colored pencil for a darker tone of the same color (or even using a regular pencil and lightly shading over it) will give a less conspicuous look. Overall, it's not too bad.

One thing I do when I make art is always reference a piece of the official artwork/use my 3DS to check in game. Sometimes I even try to mimic the official art as practice so I can understand its form better. This helps me do unique poses. While that's not such an issue in the lower ranks, as you climb higher, you'll want to think about that. Referencing the official art when you draw will help out when you can't remember anatomy. I know I can't memorize all the specific details.

Technique

It looks like you chose colored pencils to create this, which is one of my favorite mediums. I think your color choices are pretty close to the originals, considering its really hard to match up traditional to digital sometimes. One thing I will say though is to make sure you fill in your colored areas. Right now, a lot of it, particularly the background grass, is a lot of scribbles. That sort of makes it look like you were in a hurry since there's a lot of white spots.

My suggestion is to definitely fill these in. Art is a patient sport. Show viewers that you spent a good amount of effort and time on all your work, and their appreciation of it will grow. The trick with colored pencils is trying to blend all of the other together, and you can do that by going over it more than once. This goes for your other artwork pieces too—the scribbles make it look half finished, and you don't want your viewers thinking that. Definitely go back and fill those scribbles in so we can get the full color image. This is important at any rank of Pokemon.

The same goes for shading and such too. Texture and shadows aren't super strict in lower ranks, but it's still a good idea to have them, even if its just a simple version. I think that's what you were doing with the hatches on the side of Sewaddle's head. The same thing for color goes for shadows too—make sure to smooth those out. I do like the glare on the magnifying glass, though, although you took it into a more cartoony style with the green light reflection.

Background

For Simple rank, this sort of background will do. I like that there's a story of sorts behind it—the Pokemon is actually interacting with the environment. Story and surroundings are important in higher ranks especially, so keep this idea in mind. Be careful about what kind of liberties you take, though. Sewaddle is actually canonly one foot, not the size of a very small leaf. That's more Joltik's territory. Again, for Simple rank, this is okay. I'm glad you put some thought into it instead of just randomly drawing a Sewaddle somewhere.

I wasn't sure about the horizon line, however. Were the spikes meant to be trees or blades of grass? They look more like trees to me, but if that's the case, some distinction where the grass ends could be good, such as a shaded area where the bark of the trunks would be. Something else that might also help is varying the greens—use one shade for the grass and another for the trees. If the spikes were meant to be grass, I think more of them bunched together and at varying heights would help. Making them slightly more wavy would make them look less like triangular pine trees too.

I'll mention coloring in those white spots again, since that's probably the most important thing I want you to take away from this curation. You can always add grass texture on top of a solid color. We shouldn't see white spots unless its on purpose!

Result

Due to what I mentioned above, I'm going to score this a 20/25 meaning that Sewaddle is not caught yet. However, if you do a little bit of fixing, I will be happy to re-curate this. You're really close to capturing it, and it'll only take a little bit of time to edit.

The big thing I want you to do is fill up those white spots. The scribbles make it look unfinished, and that's probably the biggest issue with the piece. Then, if you can, work on smoothing the shadow on Sewaddle's head (since that was hatched too), and maybe add in the correct body color/underbelly that peaks on the head. If you fix these things (but mainly the scribbles), I'll curate this again.

With that being said, you may want to also update the other images you uploaded, since many of them have the same white space issues. That's going to lose you points, especially the higher tier you go.

 

Okay second try at sewaddle. I don't really feel I do fan art too well but it's worth trying.

 

I'll critique Purrloin for you. Just give me a little bit.

 

@Raveg64

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"Art for Purrloin"​

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Form and Composition

I like the concept of this, but it's a bit plain overall. It's really cute--when the cat's away the mice will play--but I feel like maybe you could have done a little more with it. Especially given your Fletchling piece, because that actually had quite a bit going on in it. I do, however, understand that this Purrloin was drawn before Fletchling, therefore I can see if you've learned a thing or two since then.

The sleeping Purrloin looks fine--cute, even--but it is just so small compared to that couch/chair. Compared to purrloin, that sofa almost looks like a skyscraper. x] Purrloin is about a foot tall, meaning that it should be about half the size of an average sofa. Either said furniture is absolutely huge (in height, anyway), or Purrloin is too small.

As for the sofa itself--despite being unnaturally tall--it does look like you tried to use a reference. That's a great habit; use whatever resources you can find! If you're even remotely unsure about what something should look like, a quick Google search can alleviate that uncertainty. Even the most experienced artists commonly use references. This being said, the stitching on the couch does look a little...odd. It looks like it was stitched together very shoddily. I can definitely understand if that was what you thought that stitching looked like, but normally with sewn products, you'd only see singular lines without the horizontal (side-to-side) stitching that you've portrayed here. This is usually due to the fact that those stitches are hidden from the outside. :> However, if you WERE going for a shoddy look for the sofa, that's great! If that were the case, it would add a little bit more originality. But if you are trying to make it look shoddy, maybe next time you could add other features such as ripped and worn-out fabric? Maybe the cushion at the other end could be torn-up and the springs underneath could be showing. Better yet, claw-marks from the Purrloin! Sometimes you really have to exaggerate to get your point across.

The addition of the "Z"s are really cute, too. It gives it more of a stylized, cartoony feel. And the mouse at the bottom? Nice touch! This is more of a personal nitpick more than anything, but maybe instead of drawing a mouse you could have made it, like...a Rattata or something! That would make a little more sense since animals don't typically exist in the Pokeverse.

Also, I find the directly-frontal point of view to be interesting. It would likely benefit from changing the perspective just a smidge to be at an angle, though, because the execution here makes it look a little bit flat.

A little addition of a background would be good, but seeing the size of the sofa and how much space it takes, this is excusable. Especially for a Pokemon in the Simple tier. If you have one item taking up so much space, though, maybe next time try making it a little bit more interesting to look at! Maybe you could consider those tips I mentioned earlier about exaggerating to get your point across.

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Technique and Color

Let's take a look at the coloring job!

It looks as if you used crayon for this. Now, don't get me wrong: using crayons isn't necessarily bad. They just don't work well for small spaces like in this. For smaller spaces, try using colored pencil so that you can get in those nooks and crannies without the colors bleeding out of the lines. Speaking of which, that doesn't appear to be noticeable...except on the sofa. Nice job staying within the lines for Purrloin, since it's so small.

My advice is with coloring, be patient and take your time. I'm not saying that you didn't take your time, but like with what Winter mentioned in her critique of your Sewaddle: there's a lot of negative space that hasn't been filled in as much as other parts. Make sure that you color a surface thoroughly! As thoroughly as possible to make it look silky-smooth. :> Before you focus on shading, let's focus on getting the flat colors applied on a little better. You have to master one thing before you can tackle the next step!

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Conclusion and Result

Overall, you didn't do badly with this piece. At all. It just could benefit from adding a little more detail to it. However, I still feel like you have a ways to go before you can get Purrloin. I'll give you a score of 20/35, meaning that Purrloin isn't quite yours yet. But don't let that discourage you! Keep at it, and remember to take into consideration all the pointers we've given you thus far. If you ever have any questions or are just unsure of something, feel free to send me a VM!


Edit: I'll get to Fletchling next.

 

@Raveg64

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"Art for Fletchling"​

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Form and Composition

I really like the concept, here, first of all. I think that despite not having caught a Pokemon via art yet, you're doing great and you really have the right idea. You always seem to make your pieces...well, more dynamic. They definitely aren't static; there's usually a lot going on in one picture. I think the main problem tends to be your execution, which we can work on!

Just...I really enjoy this. There are some things here, though, that have maybe been done a little questionably. I like what you tried to do with their eyes, here; when you have young hatchlings like this, not all of their feathers have grown in, therefore giving their eyes a bulgy appearance. I think you tried to go for something like closed eyes here, but in all honesty the prescence of the eyes isn't too obvious at all. They almost look like eyeless little freaks of nature. Nololjk

As I've said before, utilize whatever references you can get! Just by googling "baby birds," you get a ton of images that you can use.

Fletchling are small as is, but I would think that baby Fletchling that are freshly-hatched (for the most part) would be even smaller. With small songbirds such as swallows, robins, etc., the hatclings are usually about half of the size of the adult. Maybe also you could have tried to make it so that they didn't have as many visible feathers as an adult would, that way you could emphasize on their...baby-ness. The beaks also look a little awkward, as if they're just scissor blades opening and closing. While Fletchling's beak IS pretty narrow, take a look at this image that likely isn't official artwork, but pretty much nails what its beak would look like when open:


The baby Fletchling on the very right is also very angular-looking. And as for anatomy, Fletchling actally has black tailfeathers with a gray "v"-shaped streak.

The limb that the momma Fletchling is standing on also looks, perhaps, a little strange. I suppose this is because of how the berries are directly attached to said branch and due to its strange shape.

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Technique and Color

As for the fact that you made Fletchling blue, I think that's totally acceptable. Fletchling IS a very light grayish-blue color, after all. Just maybe try using primarily gray and toning down the blue some more. Of course, this is more of a nitpick more than anything. x]

As Winter and I have both stated before, I don't think I can emphasize enough to take your time on the coloring and to make sure that you color your environment as thoroughly as you can. Crayons, as what it looks like you used (if not then please correct me), are difficult to fill in small spaces with without bleeding outside of the lines really badly. For more refined areas such as the Pokemon themselves, I'd stick with colored pencils.

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Conclusion and Result

Again, I really like what you did with this. You really went the extra mile to get creative with it. This being said, I really, really want to give you this Fletchling but the really rushed coloring job just doesn't do it for me. You're definitely improving, though. Even if you may not think so, I'm definitely starting to see improvement in each of your pieces as I progress through this thread. Make sure to keep up the good work, and try to utilize all the little pointers we've been giving you. ^^ Keep doing creative stuff with your artwork. That's what I'm really liking about your submissions.

I'll give this a 25/35. I think this would be just fine for a Pokemon in the Easiest tier, but sadly not for a Simple Pokemon. Don't get discouraged, though! Keep trying. ^^ YOU ARE GETTING BETTER. 8D