13ulbasaur

Who is 13ulbasaur?

Hi! I'm 13ulbasaur, or 13ulb, Bulbasaur, Bulby, Thirteen-Ulbasaur, One-Three-Ulbasaur... I'm a high school student, hoping to graduate next year and get accepted into a university to enroll into a Bachelor of Computer Graphic Design course. To be honest, I sort of gave up on art as a dream career a few years back, thinking to focus on something else and simply play with art as a hobby. However, I ended up becoming extremely interested in graphic design, and having some skill in art is good for it, so I picked it back up again. Still, however, my main focus is graphic design, so my art still hasn't improved very much over the past year or two because I still haven't been paying much attention to it until I found myself chugging stuff out for Smogon. As a result, I don't really do personal art for anything besides Smogon, embarrassingly enough, so pretty much everything I've done outside of school, and sometimes in school, is Pokémon-related. My portfolio isn't looking too good...

Smogon Biography

I made some dumb posts in the OU forum. I'm Obsessed with Furfrou, and I made an OU team with Furfrou to post in the OU RMT forum. I refused all suggestions that involved not using Furfrou. Later, I made a Furfrou umbrella. I finally decided to open an art thread because I had to show off my Furfrou umbrella. Apparently Bummer thought my art was "k," so I got approved. I ended up making art for stuff. I don't actually do much on Smogon besides master lurking. Yay!

Art preferences

As a dumb amateur artist, I don't really have much in the way of preferences. I'm embarrassingly lousy at traditional mediums besides the basic pencil—I was a very stubborn kid, if only I could go back and slap little me—so I mostly just use that and the tablet. I always go for the tiny Wacom ones, as those are cheap, as am I. As far as art programs go, I mainly use Photoshop and occasionally Illustrator for vector stuff. I've been using Photoshop ever since my dad bought my sister and I CS2 for like five bucks because lol good luck finding actual legit programs in Malaysia at the time. We didn't have a tablet, but we used the pen tool to (painfully) line things in. Good times.

Links

• Smogon Art thread - Updated most often, but in 'bulk' when I have lots of stuff to post.
• Tumblr - Smaller bits and pieces of stuff gets updated on here often before it arrives in the bulk post on Smogon (if I remember). I still need to use it more though.
• DeviantArt - Hasn't updated in a long time and no plan on updating because DeviantArt is cancer, but it's a great source to look, laugh, and cringe at old work done by an edgy LOL so RanDOM xDDD *holds up spork* 12-year-old kid from years ago.

Contributions

Smogon's Flying Press

• OU Spotlight: Mega Manectric
• Pikachu Cup: Game Freak's Shocking Tournament Metagame!
• A Guide to Setup Sweepers in UU
• Wallbreakers in OU
• More CAP Pokémon in the CAP Metagame
• Don't Use That, Use This: AG

The Smog

• The Community Mentoring Room
• Follow the Leader - Redirection in Doubles
• Remembering Our Roots Redux: Where Are They Now (Part 2: RSE)