Mom's Art Dump

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wahey sons and daughters here i post me art

 

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this was the first drawing i drew after i got my zenbook duo screen 2025. i wanted to move on from my wacom to something more portable so i broke it in to try and adjust to the interface.

u can tell i wasnt very comfortable with it yet cuz the lines are all over the place but other than that im pleased with how this turned out. i think the expressions are good and i like the alternating line thickness of flygons body. i think the pastel colors are really pleasing to look at too.

the shading on gars body and flygons wings are a bit crap but whatever, the colors were all done in one layer + still trying to get used to the interface like i sez

lorewise i like to think flygon was going around recruiting members for her superman team and gengar is the most dubious member. maybe future drawing ideas???

 

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heres me still trying to get used to the zenbook. this originally started off as a notebook sketch while i was waiting for my doctors appointment. i went to the doctor cuz my ears were stuffed af and i had to get all the wax vacuumed out. listen to music sparingly kiddos!

not much to say here i just sketched over the paper sketch and copied kecleon and flipped him and totally forgor zapdos feet. i do like the watercolor abstract effect i did for something i farted out in 15 sec. if u wanna know what this is depicting check 2:45:20 onwards of Zetts' Replay of the Week 16 stream.

 

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this is the big un. i did this for Zetts' Replay of the Week 21 stream because we live in cringe America and the drinking age is 21 (actually something i lowkey agree with ngl). Zetts requested a drinking-themed thumbnail and gave me complete freedom to do whatever i wanted. i bounced ideas in my head and decided to go with the four commentators cheers-ing their drinks. these commentators are represented by xtina as milotic, tetrafolium as jirachi, zpanther as houndoom, and zetts as mudkip.

i always knew i wanted the mudkip to be holding a mug too big for him. i like telling stories through my art and i like the idea that despite there being an appropriately-sized receptacle for him in the glass that houndoom is holding, mudkip still chose the heavy mug anyway. like what does that imply about his personality yknow. i like it when people can infer things beyond whats directly in front of them.

milo was a bit of a pain to figure out. originally i was thinking she could just be holding a mug and just let the mug be suspended in midair, like shes holding it somehow despite no hands. cartoon logic. but just felt wrong, you cant really convey that without other cartoony things happening in the scene and the picture is still fairly grounded. then i remembered beer helmets were a thing which fixed the issue, but milotic has a bunch of anatomy coming out of her face and it got in the way of all the nuts and bolts of the helment. in the end i "fixed" the issue by deciding that she stuffed her eyebrows in the hat and theres a hole for her horn to poke out from.

houndoom and jirachi were fairly straightforward. i really like how rachis expression came out, i was struggling to get him to emote until i landed upon the perfect series of lines. houndoom was a little trickier, i struggled a bit with his proportions, then i had to stretch my imagination a bit to convey how a dog's paw might flex its digits to hold a glass. but i think i got it in the end.

i wanted to capture some parts of their irl personas as well which is why the mudkip and houndoom have their caps, xtina has an x on her hat, and tetra has laminated clovers for his wish tags.

i started this piece shortly after i got eliminated from adv rev 3, which was helpful - i could drown my sorrow in art and numb my loss a bit. it did mean i only had about a week to finish this though. given that constraint im glad it turned out the way it did, but looking at it now there are small mistakes here and there that i know i wouldnt have made if i had more time. but ultimately im very happy with how this turned out.

i also attached the bg-less version and the proof-of-concept sketch for those of u who care about that sort of thing

 

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the good people of the adv community voted me to participate in Battle of the Week hosted by Joaf. my opponent was pzword/nephewpz and we decided to up the stakes a bit, the loser has to draw a profile pic of his choice, and nephew wanted a hatterene. well given what im posting big fucking spoilers as to who won, but it was ggs and a fun time so i have no regrets over losing.

since this was meant to be a profile pic i deliberately drew a square on my canvas so that i could see the dimensions i was working with. i wanted to capture as much personality as possible, so i drew hatterene tilting her head and winking. nephew requested her hat-hand thing be visible in the pic, so i got her doing a peace sign as well. i also prioritized bold, saturated outlines to help the details stand out in a discord pp dimensions.

Link to the battle

 

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this is kinda it for now, obviously ive drawn way more thats on my personal instagram but i dont feel comfortable sharing any of that here, i like the idea of keeping my irl and online personas separate. uh hmmm well heres a wip of my next project im working on.

i guess i could post some gamedev art? idk if smogon dont allow non-pokemon-related art or even if they do allow whether people wanna see. let me know ig.

 

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another project for zetts, this time for the rotw submission thread, where u submit replays that u think are fire and get your ego partially validated by youtube personalities reacting to the sick and cool plays u made, or other funny stuff. ok im making it sound more cynical than it actually is, its a real fun time and id recommend u submit games and check out the streams, non gen3 replays are ok too! so no excuses BIATCH

regarding the art itself, i think it turned out fairly well. color correction layer i love u, the piece is definitely less colorfully interesting without it. it looks a lot colder and less like the kind of stage lighting you would see if u were backstage, like the theater is in winter or something. i attached the color balance-less version as well so people who are into that kind of stuff can compare.

of course ideally id like to be able to pull off colors like this without digital blackmagic like this one day, and also even with the color balance somethings definitely dont look good, for example i think the rattata is communicated much better without the color balance layer, which is a shame because obviously hes supposed to be the highlight of the piece. i probably could have done a better job of directing the viewer's gaze towards the rattata in general, improve the composition of the piece somehow? i tried doing that with the lights but dont think i did a good job of pointing towards the rattata either way. oh well no piece is perfect and i like letting my mistakes remain mistakes so i have a clear goal to improve on for the next artwork.

i like the rest of the mons but i REALLY like how houndoom came out. since rotw tends to involve cartoony shenanigans sometimes i simplified my style a bit for this, went with more basic shape languages than what i usually go for. this is best illustrated with the aforementioned houndoom. i drew a lot of inspiration from bluey in designing him, the boxy faces especially. i love that line that goes from his far eye all the way to the top of his mouth, a really bold unbroken line that is really pleasing to look at in the way it also envelops his nose. in my usual style this kind of face will look all sorts of off, it makes no anatomical sense for the far eye to be so visible (it should be partially obstructed by the muzzle) but the simplficiation really helped to pull off the picasso-esque perspective fuckery.

after this i think ill draw flygon and swampert being a couple, i have an idea in my head that looks cool but will probably turn out not-so-cool. ull just have to stay tuned to see how it turns out so WATCH THIS THREAD and thanks for reading my ramblin'.