Ash K.'s Gallery

I know that Mudkip requires two pieces of art, but figured I'd put this here in case anyone wanted to see the Mudkip sculpture I once made, and also in case I ever get back a Mudkip drawing I once did.

I heard you liek 'em Mudkipz!

Imgur thing with all 7 images and weird thing done to first one

All 7 images put directly here with fixed first one:

Spoiler

SINCE THIS IS ONLY ONE PIECE OF ART DON'T BOTHER CLAIMING OR CURATING IT UNTIL SUCH A TIME AS I GET A SECOND ONE UPLOADED.

 

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Sarkip

This picture says "Sarcasm" on it, and as such is obviously not meant to be a serious image. Mudkip has pheonix wings, is in space, and is using Flamethrower. The first picture shows my signature with it, while the second is just the image.




This and the sculpture in the post above this shall be submitted for a Mudkip, which is Hard.

Sunny with an 80% Chance of Whimsicott

This is a picture of Whimsicott in the sun using SolarBeam. As with Sarkip, the first one shows it with my signature while the next two are just different angles of the picture.





Cottonee in the Wind

This is a slightly abstract picture of Cottonee floating in the wind. It was done in Photoshop. The first image is saved as another file type, whereas the second image is a screenshot to show the transparency, which I think makes it look better. In case you don't know Photoshop, the checkered background is default on transparent images and should therefore be ignored.

I can't get it to display with img tags.


The two above artworks are to be submitted for a Cottonee, which is Medium.

Both Sarkip and Sunny with an 80% Chance of Whimsicott are needle felted tapestries. I heard you liek 'em Mudkipz is a painted plaster sculpture. As mentioned before, Cottonee in the Wind is done in Photoshop. I used the Sugimori artwork as a reference image for the tapestries and I don't remember what/if I used for references on the other two, they were a while ago.

 

Claiming Mudkip. I'll grade it as soon as I am able.

 

I heard you liek 'em Mudkipz!:
Well, I have to say I really liek this Mudkipz. It certainly earns points for being one of the few sculptures submitted, and it's cute too. Anatomy is all present and correct. Mudkip is not a complicated Pokemon, but you were a little sloppy with the painting. Particularly on the face, which is really lopsided and not very carefully done at all. In fact, all the lines between colors are pretty blurred. Its stance is kind of boring, but that's absolutely excusable for a sculpture. It was obviously sculpted really well, and it's cool that it stands upright despite its rather massive head. (Correctly massive, though.) The lines are smooth and elegant, and I like the shape of the legs. I give it a 60/100.

Sarkip:
Well, this one is pretty messy. I know the medium is difficult to use, but this is not nearly as nice as the sculpture. Its tail and legs are totally out of proportion and the head is turned at a neck-snapping angle. Again, the medium is hard to work with, but it seems to me like you didn't take very much time on this one. Anatomy is very broadly correct, except for the cheek color, which is yellow rather than orange. The background is pretty bad. I think you didn't choose it very well; stars would be pretty much impossible to do in this medium. Those things do not look like wings either... It gets a 30/100, meaning Mudkip is not caught.

I liked the sculpture though. You should do a different piece to go with that one.
@Ash K.;

 

I'll claim the curation for cottonee

 

Sunny with an 80% Chance of Whimsicott

First Impressions:

This is pretty cool. I don't really know much about this type of medium, but I imagine it is pretty difficult and obnoxious to work with. Despite that, it definitely looks like a Whimsicott and it even seems to have an expression going on so kudos to you.

Dynamics

So because of the medium, I'm going to imagine it was trouble enough to make the Pokemon at all, forget really doing any action. I'm going to guess that the orange bit right at Whimsicott's torso is the solar beam which is good. The background is nice with the blue sky and the sun. The only thing that bothers me is the really long sun beam that stretches across the length of the page. That makes the sun almost look like a giant flower in the sky. I would've also liked to see maybe a more clear representation of the "solarbeam" but it isn't bad per se.

Colors/Shading

All of the colors are accurate on Whimsicott so well done. Maybe a different color for the Solarbeam from the sun rays would make it clearer what's going on there. I like the background colors too.

Pokemon Accuracy

Pretty much the most impressive part of this piece is that you managed to make a realistic looking Whimsicott from stitching. The cotton balls were a great choice and they work really well. The eyes, the face, the ears/horns are all really well done. This is pretty much the entire art piece, so it's a good thing you did a great job on it
Overall

Due to the difficulty of the medium and the creative choices you made to make Whimsicott look really good, I'm willing to overlook the fact that there isn't that much going on and give you a 50/100, which means this piece passes.


Cottonee in the Wind:

First Impressions:

This image is nice, though pretty simple. The colors work well together and the image is pleasing to the eyes. I know it's supposed to be abstract, but it doesn't really resemble Cottonee that much. Also it sort of bothered me that your signature is so large and obnoxious (it covers up part of the image…). I know you said to ignore the checkered background, but it is really distracting and I would try to look up ways to remove that in future images. It also looks like you just sort of used a spray can to create Cottonee's body and the cans, which isn't bad per se, but doesn't require a ton of effort.

Dynamics

We see Cottonee caught in action floating in the wind. Cottonee itself doesn't really have much expression or action showing itself, more just a blank expression and since there isn't much in ways of a mouth or body parts that sort of looks strange. The "clouds" are also a little too simple and minimal for me, they are sort of difficult to make out and don’t really give me enough of a "lightness" feeling. I do think that you were close with the softness but you just need to strengthen your background a little more to really pull it off.

Colors/Shading

While there isn't really shading on Cottonee, there is an almost roundness to it due to the way you colored it. I would've like to see you work up this effect a little more, though. Also the "arms" look really clashing. They look too solid for the image and almost negate the roundness and lightness of Cottonee. I do think that the background color meshes well with the colors on Cottonee. I think that you just need more of a background though. What you do have is difficult to make out because of the checkerboard all over the place, and I think a little more would make it look stronger

Pokemon Accuracy

Well this is sort of the worst part of the image. I understand that the image is supposed to be abstract, but you sort of missed a lot of the details in Cottonee. You did get the overall shape correct, but the rest isn't really that good. The one anatomically correct part, the leaf/arms, aren't really that strong in the image, as I said before. I do like the eyes though as I think that, while not technically faithful to Cottonee, they work well with the fluidity theme of the image.

Overall

While the image is pleasing to the eyes (if I ignore the checkered background), I think that you strayed a little too far from an image of a Cottonee (and the part that is genuine doesn't fit with the image). I think that if you strengthened your background (somehow getting rid of the checkerboard would help this!!) and give Cottonee a little more accuracy, the image would pass. However, for now I'm going to give this a 35/100.

 

@Ash K.

Due to the new art rules, you are now able to claim yourself a Mudkip and Cottonee as one of the two curations gave you a sufficient score in both cases.