I put a little something together for the
BW status guide. Sorry for the large bump.
:statusguide:
Feedback is appreciated. At the moment I feel I will probably try to improve the dream cloud.
I did this now for the hail stall.
:dphailstallguide:
It's nice to see new contributions, and this thread was in due time for a bump anyway so that's nothing to apologise for. :)
First off, while it's possible to make decent art contributions with MSPaint, the tools you've used has made for some rather gritty images. I assume you've drawn the lineart with your mouse, which can easily mess up the symmetry of the pokemon drawn, as well making it hard to keep the lines smooth. Thick brushes with stiff edges in particular makes the latter a very difficult task. And while brush effects can be used to cause effects of things like spore and hail, the spray tool is unfit of such a task as the pixels are too small compared to the drawn images, and gives no depth and instead looks like you just added it on top of things.
Art of this kind is a welcome sight in community activities, such as the Fight thread, Secret Santa and Pokemon Makeover (but you already know that), but I'm afraid it doesn't reach up to the standard of what we want to put onto the site. Take a look among the various pieces in the Smog issues or articles which already has art on-site, and you can get a general idea of the bare minimum we're striving for here.
Thanks for taking your time and effort to make these, and I hope this rejection won't hold you back from improving!
Whenever I see a post asking a question it gets ignored. I would love to contribute I just want to know what the deal is.
If you know of an article which has no art yet, simply post in this thread that you want to make art for it, along with a description of what that image be contain. Multiple people can make several art for the same article.