CAP 8 CAP 8 - Art Submissions

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Doug I like the finished design a lot. It didn't appeal to me at first until I saw it cleaned and colored. :)

In my opinion, the red color scheme looks best, but I just think red makes everything look cooler.


With that said, I honestly believe I've done all I could for my dude, so I'm making this my Final submission post.




Final Submission
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This design was originally not meant to be a pokemon at all. It was first drawn as a boss Maverick in my old Megaman X fangame many years ago. The original boss was an Electric Eel named "Bolt Strike Eel". It just so happened that his design was lexible enough to adapt into a pokemon.

So after a few hours of manual tweaking in photoshop, Bolt Strike Eel later went on to become this pokemon, who I've preemptively named Styrm. (Stom + Wyrm) I'm hoping this dude is well recieved and that my artistic sabbatical paid off and people saw an increase in my skills from last CaP.

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Psst- KoA, love the design, but you might want to check the submission rules? Your image is a hair too large for the final submission, I think. Like your linework, even if it does have a case of the jaggies some places- what program did you use, out of curiosity?

DukeofFunk- good color picks. Love the face on your fellow. The linework's a touch lacking, I feel, but s'a good piece. I think you might need to give an outline to your glow, though, like Rotom (and like my own fellow's wing).

GooeyKablooie- Hmmm. The blue and yellow look good, but I'm not sure about that loud purple you've got on his belly. Maybe something more along the lines of teal or electric blue might work better? Hard to say; colors aren't my strong point.

Caladbolg~ - Ooh, nice design. I'd say you probably need something dark for the majority of the segments, with a brighter color- yellow or electric blue or whatever electricity color suits your fancy. Maybe shrink down your picture and roughly some color comps over the linework? Since it doesn't need to be clean, it shouldn't take long, and at a smaller size it's easier to look at them side-by-side and see what works before painting it at full size.
 
Thanks for pointing that out, adjusted my post with correct size.

Someone commented on him looking similar to MetalSeadramon, so I might do something with that in mind for a supporting piece.

Also, I use Photoshop CS2.
 
Ooh, finally a type I like =)

Is it okay if I can use an existing design of mines as my entry? I created an electric/dragon fakemon around October of last year...
 


Whoa, my line arts all wobbly. Ill have to recolour this in Paintool Sai. Anyway, here's a more cleaned up version..subject to change, more than likely, depending on the Ability that is chosen.
 
KoA said:
Doug I like the finished design a lot. It didn't appeal to me at first until I saw it cleaned and colored. :)

In my opinion, the red color scheme looks best, but I just think red makes everything look cooler.


With that said, I honestly believe I've done all I could for my dude, so I'm making this my Final submission post.




Final Submission
bolteel2smal.png


This design was originally not meant to be a pokemon at all. It was first drawn as a boss Maverick in my old Megaman X fangame many years ago. The original boss was an Electric Eel named "Bolt Strike Eel". It just so happened that his design was lexible enough to adapt into a pokemon.

So after a few hours of manual tweaking in photoshop, Bolt Strike Eel later went on to become this pokemon, who I've preemptively named Styrm. (Stom + Wyrm) I'm hoping this dude is well recieved and that my artistic sabbatical paid off and people saw an increase in my skills from last CaP.

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I still like the original color scheme the best by far. I'm just not feeling the blue.
 
Regi DS said:
Ooh, finally a type I like =)

Is it okay if I can use an existing design of mines as my entry? I created an electric/dragon fakemon around October of last year...
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Why wouldn't you be able to? Lol, I based mine off of a picture I made three years ago. X)
 
Final Submission



This concept is based off of electrons, which gives it the electric feel. The electrons orbit around the rings that guard the Pokemon from damage, thus making it more defensive to make it match the style bias.

It's more of a peaceful, cute pokemon that doesn't disturb anyone or anything. I didn't want to make a huge, scary monster thing with three heads that destroy everything in it's path, only a harmless little draco.

I wasn't getting any attention to my design, but whatever.
 
TheMutant said:
Caladbolg~ - Ooh, nice design. I'd say you probably need something dark for the majority of the segments, with a brighter color- yellow or electric blue or whatever electricity color suits your fancy. Maybe shrink down your picture and roughly some color comps over the linework? Since it doesn't need to be clean, it shouldn't take long, and at a smaller size it's easier to look at them side-by-side and see what works before painting it at full size.
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Thanks!
I'm not sure if I'll paint it, because I'm not satisfied with the design. Anyway, I think I'm out of competition.
Cartoons, taicho and Cyzir have the better design. For some reason, I don't like Doug's dragon, I don't like its eyes [Yeah, I know that "I doesn't look pokemon-ish" it's a stupid argument, but I want to see more expressives eyes (I always say that to Doug' creations xD)]. Wyverii has a cool pokemon, but I don't like the head form. KoA "stormwyrn" is saturated with details IMO.
 
ShunWolfKin said:
I likey :D.



I also really like the Mutant's most recent take on his!
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I appreciate your compliment to my art post. :) If anyone would like to see a different pose of it, just say so and I'll see what I can do. (I honestly want to make one, but I can't really think of an ideal pose with his body structure.... hmmm... I might just do a full redraw though, to see how my style has changed in the past few months.)
 
This is probably going to be my last submission for this CaP, but I think that this is my best so far.

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Any comments would be appreciated, I'll try and get some color in it by tonight. Any suggestions on the color?
 
Fenix said:
This is probably going to be my last submission for this CaP, but I think that this is my best so far.

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Any comments would be appreciated, I'll try and get some color in it by tonight. Any suggestions on the color?
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^This.

Fenix I have loved your designs, but PLEASE COLOR THEM!
 
@ Fenix: Wow, this is even better than the other two, you definitely have to keep this, I really like the feet. As for colour I would say a brown body with light blue for the stripes and dark blue for the mohawk. You could also try golden yellows instead of the blues. Although, I have to mention that one hind leg...I can't really see where the leg attaches with the foot...
 
I have emerged! This is a WIP that I've been working on for a while now.

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It has an interesting premise that explains why it looks like one huge Splice, by the by. It was a Pokemon designed to be the ultimate Dragon by combining multiple dragons DNA. The brownish-reddish areas are copper discs conaining Dragon DNA. The discs create a pure electric reproduction of the DNA contained within. This is only one design; I could very easily, for example, give it a Kingdra head instead, since that still fits the idea. Honestly, if I could give it a third type, it would be Ghost, to coincide w/ the Frankenmon theme.

Well, what do you guys think?
 
Doug, your concept is amazing. I like it because of the fact that it doesn't look so ferocious yet it still looks threatening, it's also not huge and fat. This totally has my vote.
 
First CAP art submission. Very rough version - a mix of a scanned drawing and paint. Let me know what you think of the concept, as I'd like to know what people think of the concept before dealing with things like photoshop, coloring, shading etc.

The basic idea is a dragon with digital / holographic wings. The tail is digital / holographic as well, although it isn't colored in this.

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Curse Photoshop and its constant crashing.
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I'll do my other designs over the next few days. Grah. This was a haphazardly drawn design, just to get the feel of the colors. Any suggestions on color changes etc.? And what colors do you think would make my other designs cool?
 
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