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A Life Orb that was going to be in the Smog, but the article was never finished.
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Here is a quicky I did for the Power Rankings article. Celebi is panamaxis, Ampharos is Earthworm, and Latias is Dark Lucario.
I figured I would make this a quality bump so I decided to draw something fairly simple, but would still be complex enough to take some time.This Pokemon is based on a rooster as I thought that would be an interesting choice of species for CAP 1 seeing as though they are used in cockfights. The original design started as a darker rooster with a muscular body, but when the stats were decided to be defensive and specially based, I decided to have thatreflect in the design more. It's body takes the shape of a hurricane. Hurricanes are most powerful around the walls of the eye, which indicates a sturdy body, and the outer bands of the storm, which allow it to fire off powerful special attacks.
Man, I prefer the smoother lines. The ice-cream Poke is pretty cute. Fancy drawing me an Articuno sometime? Would be a good challenge! =p
Yeah, the rooster didn't turn out the way I wanted. I wasn't going to scrap it so I just made something plausible to at least make a final submission. I haven't done a lot of design work, but I know I can do better than that. I was helping a friend make a Pokemon game back in the day. Maybe I will draw some of those Fakemons I designed.To be perfectly honest, I don't think your CAP submission measures up to the quality of your previous works. I've been working with the office drawing tools for yeeeaaaars, but you actually have genuine artistic talent, and your older style is quite good.
That said, the Ice Cream Cone looks extremely good (that was done with word too right?). Idk.. The rooster just looks somehow unproffessional to me.
On a side note, I've found PowerPoint to be better for this kind of drawing than Word. Idk about the latest version, but I've found that sometimes Word has a way of dicking around what you're trying to do. It's mostly identical; same autoshapes and options and stuff, but Word i've found does silly things sometimes.
edit: I don't know exactly how you go about your drawing in Office or otherwise, but another thing that may be worth trying: Draw a picture the way you normally would, then insert the picture into PowerPoint (or Word, whatever) then use the drawing tools to trace over the original artwork, while also touching it up, adding smoother lines etc. Unless you're already doing this of course, then continue...