My favourite sprite thus far.
Wyverii's is also quite good as well, but there's something about it that just isn't right.
I can't put my finger on it.
My favourite sprite thus far.
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I'm not sure about the placement on the heads (and the colours are temp, since I just stole them from dragonz for now >>)
Oh and the outline is pure black atm, so that needs to change
Here's my first draft of CAP 8:
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I wanted this sprite to really look like an electric dragon. With many of the other sprites in this thread, I feel like the pokemon looks more like a three-headed bird, rather than a three-headed hydra. With the legs and the fluffy body, the overall effect of many other sprites is "electric ostrich", not "electric dragon", IMO. At best, the other sprites look too derivative of Altaria -- which is already a "cloud dragon". At worst, the sprites look like little yellow baby birds hatching out of a gray nest. I think everyone has stayed faithful to Cyzir's original art -- but for some reason, when those literal elements are shrunken down to sprite size, I think the design loses a lot of the "dragon-ness" that it has in the full-size drawing.
So, I stylized some of the base elements to try and bring out the dragon-ness in the sprite. I didn't originally intend to use a lot of artistic license when I sat down to sprite this thing. It just kind of happened that way. I stood the pokemon up taller, in more of a defensive "ready pose". I interpreted the clouds a bit differently than other spriters -- I tried to make the clouds look bulky, not cotton-like. I made the faces more angular, to try and get away from looking too bird-like. I may add some more curves to the faces later. Right now, I think they look very electric, but I'm curious what others think. Where the necks attach to the body, I interpreted Cyzir's lightning effect a bit differently than other spriters. I wanted the effect to look like crackling electricity (this pokemon does have Static, y'know).
My overall goal was to make this sprite feel more like a hydra, and less like an awkward bird. I'm interested to hear what others think of my interpretation.
Doug i seriously think this is one of your best sprite submissions i have seen so far. I really like how you have taken the original submission and made it your own. I never really liked the submission i always voted for cartoons but this pose i can really get behind. I love the way it looks powerful and bulky most especially it seems to be dignified unlike the the lazy tyrant from Cartoons. Bringing out character as you can tell is one of the most important things when designing a pokemon's artwork. Anyway great job.Here's my first draft of CAP 8:
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<3 Atyroki's entry.