leparagon

Who is leparagon?

I'm just a casual dude who enjoys science, art, music, dancing, exercising, and hanging out. Being a biology major makes it tough to balance it all out, but I make it work somehow, with the help of my all awesome friends and my wonderful girlfriend who supports in everything, even spriting.

Smogon Biography

I was contacted by the famous Layell through DeviantArt. I was already spriting long before that, so I found it easy to work on Sun/Moon sprites for Smogon. People here were really nice to me and they gave me an artist badge not long after I joined, and it was something I was rather happy about and proud of. I plan on watching some more threads here on Smogon and see if there's anything I can contribute in. I might even try out for CAP some day.

I'm not new to competitive battling, but I prefer just playing casually. That doesn't stop me from giving advice to my friends when they're on Showdown, though :P

Art preferences

I'm mostly known for my sprites. I started sprites with Pokémon, but I learned how to sprite fighting games and high-res stuff a bit after. I also taught myself a bunch of different techniques and shortcuts for spriting aside from the common "scan-trace-sprite" method. Spriting feels really natural to me, so it takes only a few minutes for me to make Pokémon-styled sprites.

I did, obviously, start off with pen and paper when I was young. I still draw with it a lot. I also recently transitioned into digital art with a tablet I got back on my 18th birthday that my girlfriend and close friends surprised me with. It was no Wacom, but it got the job done. I'm still learning new stuff with the tablet, but I've already dabbled in Sugimori style, vector art, and some other styles as well.

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