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Natoucan Sam

I would redo this and fix the lettering and not use wax crayons (so annoying) but I think I actually did a decent job on the Natu so I guess i'll see how it does

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the drawing I actually like (though the feet gave me soo much trouble)

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here's my proof, the two pics together and if you look closely you can see I wrote smores

 

@Elamite

Natoucan Sam

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Form/Color
As is obvious, you used an existing or similar box from Froot Loops as a reference image. The Kelloggs logo is nicely done and accurate to the real one. Something that stood out to me is the lack of dark outlines on ‘Froot Loops’, which made it stand out in comparison to the rest. Lines seemed a bit shaky in spots, and color bled into areas it wasn’t always supposed to. Would have liked to see more box art, details that would have broken the monotony of the red.

Pokemon
With the limited view we get of the pokemon, it doesn’t necessarily convey the main aspects of it. Its mainly just a green version of Toucan Sam instead of a Natu-esque crossover.The eyes and coloration were good choices, but it would have been nice to have more of the pokemon, and perhaps using different box art to more centralize the pokemon as the focus of the piece

Environment
In this image, there isn't much shading at all. Granted its a box, but it could have more light on one area. Could have gone well sitting on a table with a bowl of these oft loved loops that tase of fruit.

Improvements
1. Centralize the pokemon, or show more of it in the image.
2. Add shading, details, or an environment to break up the image

Score
30/100

Natu

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Form/Color
Natu has very clean lines, and the lines often follow the light and shadows you added which is always a good thing to show. The hatching and different colored lines do a nice job of simulating feathers.

Pokemon
A very nicely drawn Natu. Good choice in color, excellent levels of shadows and highlights. I didn’t actually notice the head fether until I really looked at the image. Maybe scale the pokemon down a notch so it can all fit in the future? Cannot see a tail, but this could possibly be due to the angle Natu is at, hard to tell. The one toe looks a bit broken, but you mentioned that the feet had given you problems. Would have loved to see a more dynamic pose, or at least something for Natu to potentially interact with.

Environment
You went halfway on this one. You added a light source, and did very well to add light and shadow to the scene. But Natu isn’t really anywhere right now, he’s in a white room and somehow doesn't cast a shadow. Putting the pokemon somewhere that gives some sense of where, when, and why will do worlds to make your art more appealing. Even just grass and a tree to break up the empty space surrounding the pokemon.

Improvements
1. Environment does worlds to enhance an image

Score
40/100

 

Since one of your pieces passes with the new art forum rules, you successfully capture a Natu. @Elamite;

 

... After checking Monbrey's post, I see that you're supposed to pass with a 45 instead of 40. Dammit, Monbrey, update the main board, doofbutt.

So, uh, hold off on collecting that Natu. Let me talk to Monbrey first.

 

@TheProtobabe;
@Monbrey;

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Oh I assumed she told you sorry.

It's all yours @Elamite;

 

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My first foray into the digital art world.

Here's a WIP photo, tho i could upload the original sketch if I needed to

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I'll grade this if you want.

 

Dalek, can only claim one thing at a time.

 

I had already finished paperpede when I took this...

 

@Elamite ; Aron. :304: Class: Medium Min Score: 45

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Sorry I took so long! Well, since you said that this is your first dive into digital painting, I'll go really easy on you. Well, ay least in the methods part of the critique. Let's see, right off the bat, I can see quite a bit of faults with your painting. Most of them are due to a wobbly hand. Lines and shapes don't look smooth, which leaves a negative impact for a metal pokemon like aron. In addition, you seemed to mix the pencil and brush in awkward ways, having anti-aliased lines clash with solid color. You can see this in the nostrils. You did, however, do a decent job shading. You made a clever little highlight and slowly fade into the neck and body, which is all right. Most beginners ignore shading in general, so I really give you thumbs up for attempting it.

The pokemon itself could use some tweaking, though. The anatomy of the pokemon has its head attached around midway height-wise. Your aron's neck is almost at the bottom of the head. The pokemon itself is actually a whiter color, although I guess you made it gray in order to experiment with shading.

These small details do make an impact. The background is scattered with specks of stray color, which drops the work's level of professionalism. It bothers me that you only did a head, but when I double checked the rules, I found you were ok. When I zoom in, though, I find the accidents caused by misuse of the lasso tool. Once again, I won't count this against you.

I know I'm sounding glum, but there isn't really too much creativity in the piece. Bam- aron on the page. There is no real story, or even a personality to this guy- he's just there...


In summary, this is a digital painting from a beginner. It looks like you put you're best foot foreward, so...

Your score is.... :mallet:.... 45/ 100! You cought aron!

The reason I chose to let you have it was a) you were a beginner who dared to venture into complex tasks b) I can SMELL the effort you put into this peice! Keep working hard, and I pray you advance in developing your talent. Have a good time with aron!

 

Ya. I agree with a lot of the things you said. I think I sort of prematurely posted this image now that I look back at it ^^; It's funny how it's easy to overlook things when you get excited with your own piece of art, and really want to show it off haha. Anyway, thanks a lot for the curate! Promise to clean up my mistakes in future arts!

 

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Another just portrait since I like those

 

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last one still hasn't been curated, but might as well post this

 

doing curations now because Monbrey needs me to.

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For starters, the upside-down thing is great since that's Inkay's entire gimmick. The second thing that jumps out at you is the blend of cool colors. You've got Inkay's purple and blue on a teal background, and there's wonderful shading toward the center of Inkay all complemented by the gray. Some of this is Inkay's natural color, to be fair, but you did a great job of picking how to maximize it in your blending, shading and background color choice.

I also want to compliment the art style. There's a contrast of no hard lines and then very hard lines, and it's a fascinating visual effect. The eyes and upper (lower?) body look great without the hard lines, especially with the coloring style as well as Inkay's appearance. The hard lines were uncomfortable to look at at first, but that can be a sign of great contrast and I think that's the case here.

My complaints: The line is inconsistent between dark and shaded over at parts, and it's really bothering me that it's a jagged, pixelated line versus a more smooth one. To a considerable degree, I can appreciate stark contrast and I think there's something to even the pixelated line, but in the end, it's just distracting and not a pleasant visual effect to me. I can also see random blotches in the shading where it gets inconsistent. I feel like inconsistent shading can work with this coloring style, but it takes precise inconsistency. Mainly on the tentacles, there are subtle differences that sort of cross between something like the inferno sprite effect and just lazy lazy-looking shading (but I know better than that hahah).

Good job overall, I like it a lot and that was obvious from the moment I saw it. The contrasting thick line made it only better, and it's a stroke of genius if not yet perfect. Grade: 65 I guess this grading system is really arbitrary and I think it's dum

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lol i opened this and saw the purple/blue/green shit at first and went wtf pokemon is that then I scrolled down

Anyone yeah, let's start with the negatives this time around. I can gather those things are candies. They're a very central part of this image, especially with Swirlix only ~3/4 visible. Unfortunately, I don't think they're firm enough as objects in your image. There's obviously the moment of confusion in figuring out what they are, but how do they relate to Swirlix (and with good art, I demand a more centralized connection than "Swirlix likes candies" or whatever)? I get Swirlix is a cotton-candy Pokemon, but you'll have to put more effort into it than a candy/cotton-candy connection.

With that aside, you did well here from a visual standpoint. Again. A lot of the same strengths: great color choice and mixing with the soft pastel-y colors, with great shading and blending. It's a very soft and fuzzy image overall, which works great with Swirlix given its design. Great job on the face, too.

Minor detail: Swirlix is whiter than that. It might be a minor detail and this is going to be a somewhat flawed comparison, but I mean, imagine if somebody took an Asian and drew them with a color that made them look more Puerto Rican? I think a lighter color would also have looked nice, and while this works, it's not entirely true to how Swirlix looks.

Good job once again. You don't score as high as last time, but you still get a pass on the Medium mon. Grade: 48

 

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Just a simple drawing since I wanted to try out my graphic tablet

 

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All done @Elamite!

Fletchling

I love those eyes. They’re just so... absurdly large and cute and amazing and perfect. There’s lots of other stuff to talk about, though, so here goes:

First of all, I’d like to talk about Fletchling’s pose and expression. In terms of pose, it looks a little bit skewed. The problem is, his body is drawn as if he’s facing straight to the left, but his head is attached to the side of his body and facing straight at the viewer. If Fletchling were really facing at a ¾ angle like his face seems to suggest, then we wouldn’t be able to see his whole wing or body. It would look more like the official sprite, where you only see part of his chest and the front of his wing covers the rest. His expression is also kind of difficult to figure out. If I look really closely, I can see that he’s got two thin angry eyebrows. With that in mind, I can see that the upturned beak is really like this evil smile. Unfortunately, I didn’t see that at first, so I just thought it was this cute puppy-dog-eyed smile. I think you could have exaggerated the expression a little more, particularly the eyebrows, to make it more clear.

Otherwise, the shape of the body is pretty okay. If Fletchling were in fact facing straight to the left, I think the proportions of its body would be just about right. Its wings could probably be a little bigger relative to its chest, and its head a little smaller, but it’s not too bad in that regard. Now that I can tell that Fletchling’s got this evil smirk goin’ on, I understand the shape of its beak, even though really Fletchling’s beak is pointed down, and a little smaller. It’s also solid black. Again, I’d recommend using the official artwork as a reference. On the other hand, you did take the Pokémon and put your own spin on it, so I can’t fault you too much for your color and shape choices on the beak. You definitely wouldn’t have been able to give it such a funny expression with a solid black beak.

Next, I’d like to talk about the shading on Fletchling’s body. Like its pose, the shading on his head and chest don’t really match up. The dark spots on his head appear around the edges, as if there’s a light source directly in front of his face. His body is only really shaded on the bottom left, which implies that there’s a light source coming from the top right, contradicting the shadows on his head. The shading on its body is also kind of uneven. It looks sort of like colored pencil before it’s been evened out, you know when you’ve just put down a layer and there’s still a lot of white space? I’m not sure what kind of capabilities your drawing app has, but I’d recommend checking whether it’s got larger brushes or the brushes with lower opacity so you can smooth things like this out. I know you said this was an experiment with a new tablet, so I’m sure you haven’t had the chance to explore just yet, but I bet you’ll find something cool.

The last thing I’d like to mention is the bright blue background. Obviously, since you were just starting out using your tablet, you weren’t prepared to create a big detailed background. I think you could have chosen a softer background, though. The shade of red and even the grey color are kind of in-your-face already, so the bright blue is a little overwhelming. I think the picture would have benefited from a calmer, lighter shade of blue in the background.

Grade

I rate this a 35/100, so you'll catch Fletchling as soon as you show proof of ownership!. I was a little lenient since it was your first try with the new tablet, and I know that learning to do art with a tablet can be pretty difficult. In the future, I’d like to see you pay more attention to the pose of your Pokémon, since joint-breaking poses can really detract from a piece. Other than that, this was definitely a great first attempt at tablet art, and I’m looking forward to seeing what you create in the future!

Please PM or tag me when you add in proof and I'll give you your Pokemon!

 

@Elamite: Done!

Dat face!

No, but really, I love his expression. Actually, I love what you did with the picture in general. Those big eyes and the way his cheeks are curled up in a smile make it clear we’re not just looking at a Cacnea, it’s a Cacnea selfie! I wonder if he uses a selfie stick? ... Selfie needle? It’s like he’s happened upon some poor tourist’s camera and stolen it. The unfortunate part of this picture is that we only get to see about half of Cacnea’s body (if you don’t take his arms into account at all). This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, since it fits the “story” so well, but it does mean the rest of the picture’s really gotta pick up the slack to make up for the fact that we can barely see half of the star Pokémon!

The background helps with the story behind the picture, but it’s kind of unremarkable outside of that. The details on the pyramid are kind of cool, but its pretty wobbly and still sort of a bare-bones picture. That’s really the only other thing in the background except for the sun and a couple of big colored areas like the sky and sand.

I think the picture is really missing detail. Shading, maybe some outlines other than the ones on the pyramid, other objects. I think I see a bit of a gradient with a little dark area at the bottom. This kinda works since Cacnea’s face is away from the sun and pressed up against the camera. On the other hand, the rest of the picture could’ve used some shading too. The thing is, there’s not much else to give the picture depth. The small pyramid in the background gives it some perspective, but otherwise it’s very flat. I would’ve like to see shading that reflects the shape of Cacnea’s body more.

As I continue to look at the picture, I think I’ve realized that the green areas on the right and left are actually Cacnea’s arms. Some outlining or shading would’ve helped make that clearer. As it is, it looks like there’s just some grass next to the sand.

Uhh, I guess that’s about it.

Grade

I give this piece a 40/100. It’s just barely under passing for a Cacnea. I really, really loved the idea of a Cacnea taking a selfie, and I think you executed really well on that idea. The thing is, because we see so little of Cacnea, there needs to be something else in the picture to wow me. I think you can go into this picture and add some extra shading or detail to really make it pop! Please let me know when you’re done!

Also, don’t forget to add in proof!