Cretacerus

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Who is Cretacerus?

Hey everyone, I'm Cretacerus, and I'm currently a biology student in Germany. Art has always been one of my hobbies, and I particularly enjoy doing sketches and studies of various animals in my free time.

My first encounter with Pokeémon was in Generation IV, which, in my humble opinion, introduced the best fossil Pokémon to date, Cranidos. In my ambition to create the perfect dinosaur themed team, I eventually stumbled upon the website known as Smogon, which supplied me with the perfect resources needed for my cause.

Smogon Biography

After lurking around Smogon for a while, I finally decided to create an account in order to participate in the Create-A-Pokémon Project. This also brought about my first attempts at digital art, both of which did surprisingly well in the polls and ended up being displayed in the CAP Gallery.

From there, I continued to hone my digital drawing skills and eventually set up an art thread during my semester break to get some more practice and feedback from the more experienced artists, which ultimately led to me being approved as an onsite artist. I particularly enjoyed doing artwork for our former webzine, The Smog, and am glad to have my artwork featured on the cover page of the last two issues to be released.

Besides doing art, I can often be found hanging out in the Wi-Fi Section of Smogon on my continuous search for new and interesting dinosaur Pokémon. Over time, I've managed to build up one of the most exquisite collections of fossil breeds the website has to offer, so definitely check out my trade thread if you're a fossil enthusiast yourself!

Art Preferences

Most of my casual sketches and drawings are created by traditional means, especially pencils, chalks, and pastels, which are convenient and quick to use. However, I'll try to do digital art once in a while as well in order to improve on my skills and when clean digital images are needed for on-site purposes.

For my digital art, I use the program Paint.NET in combination with the mouse, tracing over previously drawn pencil sketches. The exact process can be seen in my dedicated step-by-step-tutorial here.

Links

Contributions

Smogon's Flying Press

The Smog

Facebook

Create-A-Pokémon (CAP)