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Gallery Folders | FeaturedComments I love your work and how you incorporate the animal-base into the artwork concepts!
I would love to see a Legendary at some point, though I do not expect it to be anytime soon :3 Keep up the great work!  ok, this is simply amazing. i love your gallery and i can't wait to read more of these field guides. may i ask, may i feature one new field guide a day on my facebook page Korra, The Poke' Master if i mention you in every comment and give them the link to your profile in every comment. it would be amazing and i am sure everyone on the page would love these.
 Please do. Feel free to share them and spread the word. If you give credit, I have no problems!
  I'm eager to read more of Profesor Baobab's adventures, you are by far the greatest fanart pokémon writter and drawer around here, I'd love to see ghost pokémons already and how he is going to describe them, thought anima nomenclature since "anima" means soul but still it is just awesome what you created here, keep on the great job !
Ive been in a debate with myself on how to portray this and still keep the realistic feel to the guide. I have some ideas but I'll not spoil that for you.
 Im working with Litwick and a few others. These are far and away the best realized interpretation of Pokemon I have ever seen. I think the primary reason for that is the respect you give to the original design and the living animals that inspired them. Often artists make their interpretations needlessly grotesque, giving Pokemon exaggerated musculature, added or elongated spines and claws, and other features which, more often than not, make them more fantastic, not less. By giving your illustrations traits of their real-life counterparts you create a naturalism about them that is rarely seen in depictions of fantastic creatures. The fact that you have made them into illustrations in the notebook of a Pokemon professor makes them all the better (I love the name Professor Baobab.)
As for any criticism, I feel like I would like to have seen these done in pencil, watercolor, and pen and ink sketches with some of the drawings half done to really create the impression of a traditional naturalist's field notebook. For the same reason, I think that if the text on each page was hand written (preferably with a fountain pen,) it would really add to the feeling that this was created by a professor in the field. But then, I am a bit of a traditionalist. Keep it up, I look forward to seeing the next entry. Thank you so much for the thoughtful feedback. A lot of my concept art is indeed that of which you speak. Some half finished, some notes made about the designs, etc. I just didn't think it would be too interesting to people in terms of a "finished" product. I tried to select a text that was closely representative to hand written notes as possible. Though I have confidence that my writing is legible, it really is much easier to read and more consistent with a pre-formed text.
I plan on creating a physical copy of this guide. I have used "transparent layers" and hope that once printed on pressed paper that the "feel" of water color comes through. This all has yet to be seen though and I am not sure how well the guide will be represented once physical. Even if I don't make more than 1, there will be at least ONE copy I make for myself. Again thank you, its extremely satisfying and clarifying to read what people are thinking and how they feel about the guide. I'm currently working on a couple of pages that I really like. Diglett is coming out really cool. I hope to post more soon. |
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and will always share your link on your stuff