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Pokémon: Caterpie
Difficulty: Easiest
Medium: Colored Pencils
[On DeviantArt] If you're not a Curator but you've got a comment.

 

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I got halfway through and realized harder 'mons give more money. So we shall see.....

 

Pokémon: Venipede
Difficulty: Simple
Medium: Pencil
[On DeviantArt] If you're not a Curator but you've got a comment.

 

Claiming Caterpie~
Sorry, For some reason I thought the stuff in this thread was done.
I think it would be a good idea to edit titles with words like "Complete" / "Curated" to make it easier to spot.

 

Anddd this curation is a go~!

First Impression:
Whoa. That's what I said the moment I saw your piece of Caterpie here. I was shocked and pretty amazed at how good it looked, you're super handy with those colored pencils! Youshouldteachme./shot

Form:
It's time to take a closer look at your Caterpie and I have to say, I'm excited to look at such a nicely done piece! First off, as per usual, I was able to recognize Caterpie without having to look up any references to compare details, so great job on capturing the look of our bug friend! The overall shape looks good when comparing it with it's references, but there are a couple of areas where things are a bit off.

The second half of it's body that leads to it's tail is actually smooth and does not appear to have the "bumps" like the first half. By bumps, I'm talking about how it looks like Caterpie is divided into sections. Speaking of those sections, within each you have the little circle or "zero" designs towards the bottom when they appear to be centered in the official artwork. However, the circle design placement is merely a nitpick, so no need to worry about it. Moving back to it's tail, there's this circular piece that attaches to it from it's body and you have it draw pretty small. It's a bit hard to see it as it is. The tail itself is drawn well and correctly, so no issues there and looking at the head, you hit everything pretty spot on. The placement of the different parts of it's head appear perfect for the perspective you have Caterpie in. If there was anything, I would like to have liked to see the eye a more circular shape rather then an oval. The underside of it's body looks fine though, so again, great work!

Background/Foreground:
As there is no real background or foreground, there is nothing for me to comment here. While I would usually recommend something for a background, I think this piece already has a lot of work in it for an "easiest". However, I'm still going to suggest that you could have put a few lines of grass, and a 'plain' for Caterpie to be sitting on. That way it doesn't look like it's floating in space. You could have even drawn the trunk of a tree behind it on the ground.

Line:
All of your lines throughout your Caterpie are smooth and well-defined. I can tell where everything is at and i like how they seem to be faded out towards the front where the light source appears to be and gets darker the further away from it, it goes. I think its a really great touch and really shows your attention to detail. I also really liked that you made the green areas, as far as the lineart dark and then the yellow parts lighter as if to show it was 'softer' then the other areas, but dark enough to bring it out.

Technique:
I have to say, I'm pretty jealous of your technique throughout this piece. Coloring with color pencils is really tough, but you really nailed Caterpie down in this image. You really brought it to life with your use of vibrant colors and contrasting lineart. The coloring is really even and smooth with me being almost unable to tell what direction you colored from. There are no open gaps either that can happen when using traditional media and then on top of that, you used pressure to have lighter and darker areas. I love that you lightly colored over some areas to resemble highlights and then applied pressure (along with a darker blue color?) to create shadows. It's truly beautifully colored, though I do think there should be some kind of shadow under or to the side (coinciding with the light source) of the antennae on its head. I also think the shadows could be a bit darker on the yellow parts on the bottom of the Pokemon. Aside from that though, there isn't anything I could recommend as far as your technique. I'd like to see this technique in future pieces, not all, but it would definitely be a treat to take a closer look at.

Overall:
Overall, this is a great piece and as mentioned several times, I love your coloring on Caterpie here. You put alot of work into this and it definitely shows through. I'm going to score this a 30/25, so your Caterpie is definitely captured! As usual, I do like to see backgrounds to go along with these, but the fact it's colored and shaded so nicely, I think that would be enough for this little guy. Great work and I hope to see more from you Elrond!

Caterpie is Captured!

note: I am not at home, so I may come back and correct any typing errors once I am. However, my score does not change. (updated)

 

Claiming Venipede as well now~

 

@Elrond 2.0

Anddd another curation for you~

First Impression:
Well, this is a very interesting piece, though I am a bit confused whats going on a bit. It looks like the Venipede is grabbing some guys face? In any case, it's time to take a closer look!

Form:
Alright, this is a bit of a first, but I actually couldn't tell what Pokemon this was at first, as we see it from behind essentially. I like that you took a different approach to drawing for a Pokemon, but when doing something like this you definitely have to make sure all the details are there. Admittedly, Venipede is not a pokemon I pay too much attention to, but it does have some distinguishable features such as how it'd body is sectioned off, it's markings and it's tails. I want to say you have a sort of general shape down for Venipede, but the portions and sections are quite a bit off. The transition from its’ head to it’s body is also a little weird and the bottom part of it’s body is outright missing. I really hate to say it, but this really feels unfinished.

Starting from the head to body transition, you have this triangular white shape separating the head from the body which isn’t really present on Venipede. There is the top section of it’s head which is triangular, but then you have the curved line separating it, suggesting it’s a part of it’s body rather then the head. Below that, you have the black marking present on the larger first portion of it’s body, but it feels a bit thin and small, as again, compared to different references. I won’t talk about everything here, as some of it might be nitpicks, but I’ll cover the biggest areas I feel might be off. If anything, the biggest thing is definitely the fact that the final piece of it’s body with it’s tails are completely missing. A change in perspective isn’t going to make it completely vanish, so I can only imagine it was overlooked or you drew this Venipede from memory. If so, you definitely remembered the majority of it!

I’m not sure what it is Venipede is grabbing onto, so it’s hard for me to comment on it. Because I’m not sure what it is, it’s hard for me to suggest how to improve on it. The best thing I can recommend is to either add a description in the post along with the picture or put in more details to make it more apparent what it is.

Background/Foreground:
Again, there really isn't a background or foreground to go with this piece and I'm going to have to add, because of the lack of details, it would need it. Unlike your Caterpie piece, this lacks color, shadows and highlights. You have what appears to be a person's face it's grabbing onto to, but thats it. It's extremely bare bones. I do have the feeling you may have even been going for a mask kind of feel here, but it's not coming across very well. Instead of a person, it could have been grabbing onto a tree instead. Perhaps it was going up that tree to eat or chase after Pokemon. Placing it towards the bottom or top of the tree gives you access to different ideas you can play around with to accentuate the piece.

If Venipede was towards the top of the tree, you could have leaves showing, branches, other trees, the sky or even light from the sky shining through the areas not covered by surrounding trees. On the ground, there could be stumps, bushes, again other Pokemon, among other things. In effect, I'm saying that the composition would have to be different if you wanted to change this image and continue it without use of color.

Line:
The lines in this image are pretty solid and readable. They are near and don’t rally change in value or color throughout the picture. The only areas where the lineart appears to be darker are the areas you were coloring black and thats about it. There isn’t much for me to comment here unfortunately.

Technique:
Again, there really isn’t much for me to comment here because there really isn’t a technique for me to critique. There are lines and some darker areas, but no colors or shading for me to comment on. I’ll make comments in my overall section as far as my thoughts about this as a whole.

Overall:
Overall, as I stated before, this image is pretty bare bones and there isn’t much for me to critique aside from the lineart of the Pokemon and what it’s grabbing on to. Even then, Venipede is pretty incomplete and I can’t tell what the other object is. As a note, when turning in pieces like these, even for an easiest, if you don’t plan on adding any color or shading (which i don’t recommend), then the background is going to have to make up for a lot of it. If you don’t want to make any kind of extensive background (which it doesn’t have to be extensive for an easiest), then there needs to be some kind of detail. You could have just did some simple hatching or cross-hatching to add some shadows to the forms. As things stand, I’m going to have to score this a 12/35, which means Venipede is not caught. Being the medium appears to be marker or pen, it might be easier to redraw the image (as much as I don’t want to say this). I’ve seen you do better, so I know you definitely could do this! Feel free to try and make any changes I mentioned or even redraw what you have and add details/changes. As this is an easiest, it doesn't have to be extensive, but there has to be a little bit more then you have here. You dont have to color, but you do need to have all the parts of the pokemon, maybe a few things in the background and some loose shading. I hope to hear back from you on this~

Venipede is not caught.

edit: I mention a few times this is an easiest, but I really meant to say Simple. I apologize for any mistakes on that.