CAP 13 CAP 2 - Art Submissions

Wow there's some stiff competition here >.< , anyway here's my forest spirity design

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Yilx, I'd like to see you develop your second submission some more. It looks interesting. The pixies you submit for CAPs are always attractive but never look quite Pokémon-y enough for me, they remind me more of swords-'n'-sorcery RPG characters. I think the mirror-flower has potential though, would love to see it in colour.

Some great designs here so far. In particular I like Doug's belladonna and energy storm's ink bamboo. Doug's representation of clothing and general mournful feel really brings out the typing in his concept. I find it a shame that he had to use the glaring gold masks to bring his concept forth. As for Energy storm's design I've always been a fan of chinese ink paintings and though it certainly reaches out a lot towards the sketch side of things I don't mind because it's completely based around the idea instead of trying to fit it in.

I think in general people shouldn't be focusing too much on trying to fit sketch to a design. If what you come up with happens to be a good fit with it, great! I just feel that the designs here should be as varied as this thing's potential moveset.



This is my idea. I originally wanted to do a Cu Sith of scottish lore but since we already have a quadruped in Kitsunoh and people might have a bit of trouble seeing the ghost in it I decided to go another route. After about an hour of listening to OoT's forest temple theme I came up with this.

Of course, after listening to Zelda music for so long I'd be surprised if you didn't see any resemblances to the Skull Kid/Poes that reside in the games. Also due to it's inherent design in having a broad 'hat' it'll also feel a bit like Breloom and the Ludicolo family. The french feel to it was accidental after I noted that the paper body looked a bit like it had ruffles and a coattail so just went the whole way and gave it a beret.

Paper was originally chosen for the main body purely because it wasn't just leafage. Also being a ghost-type I didn't want to have most of the body covered in what's essentially life. It gives it a bit more of a rugged and disheveled look which fits in with the original sad little forest spirit theme. The theme was chosen so that I didn't end up with another malicious or prankster ghost that we have a lot of.

The paper body and the french feel makes it surprisingly suited to sketch. This is a complete accident because I never cared about sketch starting out on this. I won't complain if I end up moving away from it later on but it works for now.

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I really wanted to go down the route of having a possessed tree xD. I will add colour soon, but I just wanted to know what people thought of this before I started. When it comes to my final submission, I'll tidy it up on my computer so that the lines are all simple as opposed to the pencil look. I would love to hear your thoughts! :D I believe its different enough to the other possessed tree design here (don't really know how I missed it :/) but if you don't think it is, I'll try something else. :D

mailtoad said:

possessed tree

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Well, while you're fixing your image, look at the top of page 2.

I hope the two are different enough to be considered side-by-side.

I have a feeling that there's going to be a lot of pumpkin-themed submissions...

bugmaniacbob, LouisCyphre, Energy Storm have really interesting concepts going on with their corpse plant, haunted truant and inked bamboo designs respectively. Absolclaw, I suggest you learn how to draw leaves, because I'd say you've got a cool concept as well.

DougJustDoug has a well-designed Poke as always, and aragornbird's tiki dude has some serious potential behind it. Calad's designs are interesting as well, while artwise, Flummoxen and Yilx should be watched out for.

Personally and ultimately, though, paint seagull and CactuarJoe have a huge advantage both concept and design-wise, and should seriously consider pushing their ideas.

I'm not much of an artist myself, but I'm actually pretty surprised that nobody has submitted any sort of scarecrow-inspired concept yet, so I thought that I'd give it a go. After jack-o-lanterns, scarecrows were the concept that I thought we would end up seeing the most of. It seemed, to me anyway, that something with a body made out of straw (dead plant matter) and with a concept tied to fear and often horror would be a rather obvious entry for a Grass / Ghost pokemon:



I'm not entirely happy with how it turned out, but it was just a quick concept sketch. The scanner didn't pick it up, unfortunately, but there's actually a lot of straw that I tried to shade under the belt and where the face should be (though my decision to leave out a face entirely was a conscious one). One thing that I want to figure out how to deal with if the concept sees any sort of popularity at all would be how to, well, remove the clothing. I don't think that Pokemon should have clothing, at least not clothing that looks so much like actual clothing. Also, I decided immediately that I wanted to turn the stand normally used to hold the scarecrow up into a weapon of some kind, but I'm wondering if going directly with a scythe, as thematically fitting as that may be for a scarecrow, wasn't a bit overboard.

aragornbird said:

On the otherhand, CAP2 will be a physical sweeper no matter what, so I made it look physically stronger.

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I just wanted to chime in that this is in no way true. The stat limits may limit the raw stats to suggest that it would be physical over special, but this is mostly because special actually has far better boosting moves. Tail Glow and Quiver Dance go a lot farther than Shift Gear, especially with Hidden Power access. Do not discount the inevitable special attacking capacity of the to-be CAP 2. I think that having an art design that doesn't lend itself one way or the other in the physical / special split would be wise.

Pombo said:

One thing i would like to point:

Our CAPMon bust be on the field (ground) egg groups, as it will be able to learn sketch via breeding. In other words, I dont think a design like Puking Rainbow's first one is suitable, even though it IS amazing!

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Well, the first pokemon I designed doesn't have to levitate. It can stay on the ground and become thus more "field (ground) egg groupish".

On the other hand, is there anything I can do to make both my designs better? Any ideas or suggestions? (:

I have made some significant changes to my tornado since my last post. Most notably, I've completely changed the colouring and shading scheme. It's still not as good as the work of others here, but it sure is better for someone like me xD

I've also changed the eyes and hands. I felt that despite the alien like eyes seemed to give it more of a ghostly/otherworldly feel, they felt tacked on. I've scrapped the hands altogether for now because I felt they were very rushed, but I probably will draw a new pair of tornado hands because he seems to lack character without them. I am content with the way the eyes are in the current artwork, but I may change the shape to either give it more expression then just "O_o".

Finally, I've tried to experiment and replace the spin lines with 'waves' of leaves., with two or three which have flown off just to emphasise these are leaves. I am still not fully happy with these leaves - they took ages to do, look like scales, and only when I reread the OP did I discover that the three freed leaves (which imo also look more like feathers) aren't technically allowed.

The things I'm planning to do are:

Fix the leaves; draw hands, and any additional tips. The hands I suspect will be easy - just follow the main scheme of the body except to a smaller scale. The leaves are what I'm concerned with. I am still uncertain as to whether I should turn the whole body into leaves, considering that my current 'skills' would make it really messy, or what to do with the spin lines/leaf waves. I am also considering drawing some sort of mouth, but that's not a very high priority. Any and all advice is appreciated <3

ProfPeanut Thank you. I had finished this current version of the tornado before I read your post though, so I'm uncertain whether these leaves are good enough (unlikely, lol) or to go full body with them.

Asylum_Rhapsody Before Rawk and Sawk, I would have been iffy with the clothes. But, considering that you could easily justify a ghost going around in human clothing to scare people, I'd say it's okay. Unfortunately that means that, besides the hay, it's primarily a ghost and very little grass. I believe. needs to have an emphasis on the being in the clothes and the grass nature of the Pokemon. Turning the support into a weapon is pretty cool, but I'm uncertain as to the scythe. On the one hand, it is a bit cliche and not standard for Pokemon weapons, which iirc tend to be more blunt. On the other hand, it doesn't seem quite right just carrying a big ol' T/crucifix/whatever around.

Wyverii and Rising_Dusk Thank goodness - my justifications regarding Sketch and the stats were on the spot (and in my opinion pretty tacky), because I thought it'd have to show in some way or form, lol. Also, have you tried giving it an ascot/cravat, Wyverii? I think that may look cute on it, but then again it may not.

puking_rainbows I personally prefer the panda thing. However, the red paint looks a bit like blood imo, and the paintbrush shtick seems like it's close to copying Smeargle and it's tail, but it's great, really. In regards to the paint, it seems more like a bulge on it's body than paint, but I don't know if you were going for that. Also, have you tried combining the two ideas, and maybe using the first Tiki mask as part of the panda like a shield or a paint palette (or whatever it's called) thing? Maybe it wouldn't work, but it could be worth a try.

Here's an alternate version of the first design:



I added the legs and the two braceles, although I don't really like them. The first idea I had in mind while creating this pokemon of a mixture between Spiritomb and Bronzong. With this nwe design, the pokemon seems to be more of a ground egg group pokemon, in my opinion.

@Absolclaw: I'll try to alter that design too. Thanks for the back up, really ;D

My idea was to make a bell-shaped flower look like the traditional ghost costume (you know the white sheet with eye-holes cut out?) and have it dangle from something.

Whipped this up real quick in paint.

Thoughts, comments?

Absolclaw said:

Asylum_Rhapsody Before Rawk and Sawk, I would have been iffy with the clothes. But, considering that you could easily justify a ghost going around in human clothing to scare people, I'd say it's okay. Unfortunately that means that, besides the hay, it's primarily a ghost and very little grass. I believe. needs to have an emphasis on the being in the clothes and the grass nature of the Pokemon. Turning the support into a weapon is pretty cool, but I'm uncertain as to the scythe. On the one hand, it is a bit cliche and not standard for Pokemon weapons, which iirc tend to be more blunt. On the other hand, it doesn't seem quite right just carrying a big ol' T/crucifix/whatever around.

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I agree with pretty much every critique that you have. I tried harder this second time around. I tried to put a less emphasis on the clothes by darkening the straw inside and by having a lot of it stick out of the clothes as well. Hopefully, this plays up the Grass typing at least a little more. Also went a different way with the support. It's not as obtrusive now, but it's still definitely evocative of a scythe. I also darkened it to try to make it look more obviously wooden, again trying to play up the Grass typing more. I also changed my mind and decided to give it a "face" after all; they're just supposed to be shadows between the gaps in the bundle of straw. Maybe I made them too wide...



Err, I just realized that I've been posting in this thread a lot... I'm going to take a break, sorry.

Here's a quite dramatically different concept to my other one, and considerably less unorthodox, a thistle vampire Pokemon. I'm really enjoying this guy, I think he fuses the Grass/Ghost elements quite well.

I think it's gonna be really hard to combine grass, ghost and the hint to sketch, but I
went with a 'creepy' tree concept...might be a little obvious

Coud be better, Design 2 try 1

Wow guys, I genuinely expected to see more Jack-O-Lanterns! Pretty creative stuff 'round here, hope mine can compete!


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If comments and suggestions are allowed in this topic, they're certainly welcome! Enjoy!
--MLaRF

Paintseagull's is my absolute favourite so far, it's eerie, strange, original and brilliant. I love the idea and backstory, as well as the simplistic colour scheme.

Yilx, that's a wonderful colour job and a great design, although I honestly preferred your spirit channeler :(

Okay my first concept was made a couple of days ago, but now I see and find that the idea is too much straight to the point, and it's not pokemon enough, so I made a leaf ghost :)

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Revised my design.

The "sketch" portion doesn't really need to be emphasized in the design, so I got rid of it. On the otherhand, CAP2 will be a physical sweeper no matter what, so I made it look physically stronger. Other than that, I'm still playing around with designs for the mask. Something that looks cool, but wouldn't be too detailed to translate into sprite form.

Comments are appreciated. I'll be going to bed since it's almost 3 AM...

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That looks awesome, I really like that sprite, but i thonk maybe emphazise the Ghost part a little bit more? It looks Grass/Fire to me.
Just a general suggetion if u want to follow it

Is this any good? I'm not convinced, but it's all I can think of, so I figure I may as well post it. It's maybe a bit too complicated (the head would be hell to sprite), and it doesn't look like anything else in smeargle's egg group.

I've made no decisions about colour, but I quite like it in black and white. It gives off a sort of dead wintery feel.

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Is this any good? I'm not convinced, but it's all I can think of, so I figure I may as well post it. It's maybe a bit too complicated (the head would be hell to sprite), and it doesn't look like anything else in smeargle's egg group.

I've made no decisions about colour, but I quite like it in black and white. It gives off a sort of dead wintery feel.

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I really like your design. It makes me think of Kirlia in some way. I agree with you when you say it can be somewhat complicated to sprite it, but it could be done, in my opinion. A solution would be to make the hair different. You could transform that hair into a bush or maybe put less but more thick thorns (:

This being my first CAP, I wanted to participate in as many parts as possible so I decided to sketch (pun intended) something. Only problem is I'm the worst artist here, so instead of making something good, I decided to make the worst art design ever. I can this travesty: Penspooky


Rawr. If it had a mouth it would eat you.

Pencils are made of wood=Grass
Spooky arms and Eyes=Ghost
Pencil=Sketch
In case the pencil isn't grassy enough, its holding some leaves.

A Back story: There once was a serial killer who enjoyed killing people in odd ways. And by odd ways I mean really odd. Once he dropped a man in to a massive pool of Jello. Another time he tied a guy to a tractor tire and rolled it down Mount Killamanjaro. Another time, when he was feeling less creative, he stabbed a guy to death with a pencil. But this dude was a witchdoctor, so he tried to curse his murderer. However, not being a very good witchdoctor, the curse only reached the pencil about to plunge itself into his Gallbladder. Now the pencil is possessed by the spirit of an African Tree God. Now this tree god did not feel at home inside a pencil so he holds leaves trying to disguise himself as a tree. Similar as to how this art cannot disguise itself as decent, Penspooky does not look like a tree. However he is a better artist than me. Later, while Penspooky was going through an identity crisis he tried to express himself through art. He learned to draw every pokemon move, even the obscure stuff like Rock Wrecker and Barrage. But he was confounded by Chatter, which he can't draw to this day.

I don't plan on working on this anymore so I guess it can be my Final Submission.

In an unrelated matter, I have to give kudos to all the other artist who are all more talented than I. But then again, all y'all are actually trying to produce a good design. Still good work everyone.

Final Submission

Hello all, here's a first draft of my concept.
This one is a dead flower designed to look like an angel, and it paints with its uprooted roots.



Any suggestions on improvements are welcome/suggested/begged for, etc.