Smog stuff
Well for those of you who are interested, I was drafted in to do the art for Mekkah and Zystral's TCG article. So yeh, Zystral is a lazy ass bitch andf threw work on me last minute decided he wanted me to do a main title image representing the two main pokemon in the battle- Gyarados and Luxray. I'm not too pleased with the end outcome, Zy said he wanted it dark and menacing but I think I went a bit too far and it's too dark, But I'm too lazy to fix that now.
Self-Criticism: Everything about Gyara is just a bit off, he's slightly (very) blurred and his fins lack depth or detail as well as lacking any kind of sharp edge or outline, I really struggled with them and couldn't fit them in the image. Luxray is better but the mouth is a bit weird. In general they both look a bit 2d, however, Zy had said he wanted them 'facing off' and I couldn't think of a better way to portray them like that than a side view. No background because I can't do backgrounds, its something I'm trying to work on ;-;.
Zy then told me he also wanted a Porygon-z wearing glasses avatar for his commentary on their battle. Originally I thought this was OK, but Zy said he wanted the shading to be more block-ish. Unfotunately, I forgot to change this as I got caught up in exams and prioritised other pieces. So sorry Zy, I know this isn't great but thats what you get for giving me late work I'll try and do better next time.
Urgh, where do I start? This thing is awful, I hate it. The original shading was going well and I was getting a close-to-icy effect which I thought i'd struggle with more than I did. Then came the corners and hard edges. I couldn't get the fucking shading right so it looked angular- as Regice is- and so I eventually ended up slapping these big bold ugly lines on it and i hate it I just want to burn GIMP right now. Then it came to the edges of the pokemon itself- another nightmare. Again I couldn't get it right, at first I had this huge black outline (right) but that didn't look right so I cut it all off and left it plain, In hindsight though black probably looked better.