Viridescent's Wandering Art Thread [Art: Drawing/Feedback]

[Ironbound]

Oh, yeah, I suppose Kingdra does count, silly me. I didn't redraw that, of course. Maybe I will sometime, but my head is already full of so many ideas for other Pokemon; one at least of each type save steel, of which there will be several!

And yes, saving the best for last!

[Halloween]

oh my fucking god Viridescent stop updating i only have so much time

these updates was just sheer bait for me though. polygon2! chandelure! ghosts and glitches!

chandelure thing doesn't even look like a Pokémon but WHO CARES GHOST TYPE

especially the extra ring with two tiny fires there. And the shape!! of it's body!! chandelure is one of my (q. many) favorite pokémon designs, so im super pleased with this take on it's mega form overall, how it looks like another kind of chandelier and yet is so recognizable.

but as i said before, with all the small stuff flying around, it doesn't really look like a Pokémon; it's the lack of focus, compared to how solid Pokémon designs usually are. Why are there floating chain pieces where there's no chain? what are the crystals coming off the... magic rod? the concept of it being stuck mid-destruction, polaroid of war, is brilliant. there's a word for this in japanese, さすが, sasuga – it roughly translates to "as expected [from you]" in this context, without the impediment of me sounding like a raging douche father in atrocious literature saying it. and now i sound like one anyway, but i do have high expectations every time you post something, and you usually live up to them.

but as excited i am for this design it's time

did you get so tired of me raging about light sources that you decided to screw lightning altogether? or am i supposed to read the various lighter patches as lightning? is the purple supposed to be light? these are rhetorical questions

i can't really tell what's going on with the bottom. is that also glass? and on the sides the "shading" is too dark to distinguish what i assume is the metal frame from the probably-glass. also, there's a hook on one circle-rim intersection where there's thorns on all intersections.

and, i get the distinct impression that you didn't look very hard at fire references before you drew this.

your palettes are hit or miss, and true to your name, the bright green ones tend to be the best. this one is a bit too all over the place – with everything else going on, six colors is just too much, and they don't even match. and the coloring of the ribbons is super lazy... i can tell it's not much effort put into the practical execution, which is a shame with this beautiful concept.

anyway. i have a few hours traveling ahead, may i make a 3d model of one of your designs? maybe even this one, but my software isn't very good at anything non-solid, or yanmega, i don't think i have enough hours to tackle genesect. it's been a while since i made someone else design, it'd be good practice

Edited June 22, 2016 by Halloween

[Ironbound]

Sure, I'm honoured.

Also yeah, I have my lazier moments. The idea is more important here than the execution, as with milotic. If it's isn't a steel or mechanical thing, my heart just doesn't go all out, y'know?

I admit that Chandelure is really nothing more than a lazily coloured cartoon. I even said as much. And I'm not bothering to draw the fire really. Maybe if I feel like it, sometime in the future, I'll redraw this thing. Just like I redrew Roserade (although that too is a cartoon really :/)

Anyways, I look forward to your other comments.

[Halloween]

finally fucking finished typing this thing so i can move on to my love polygon tmrw

See. See? See! this is how you color. A multitude of colors, but they coordinate and look incredible together. aside from the blue, but, eh, official design so whatevs

and long time no see, default oh-so smug Viri-expression, i have missed your punchableness like a dog misses its owner. how frequently you make draw this expression makes me think this is how you look while you're drawing – mmhyes i know I'm good

okay, I guess there's a general direction to the shadows now... but the orange rose, it throws it off by looking like it's shaded from a different direction than his body. make an effort Viridescent ლ(́≧Д≦‵ლ) the shading on the foremost leg is pretty cheetos thou – the lil white line ♡

but as a matter of course the best part of this is the creativity in the design. the coat! the leaf shirt! the scarf, the hat, the mantle - super fucking ingenious. that he has one large and one small blue and orange rose, respectively, i can dig it.

the pose is lackluster though; there's no movement to the action, it isn't facing the attack, and the angle of the arm is... somewhat odd. that you see the rose slightly from behind contributes – it makes it look like it's bending his arm in an uncomfortable angle backwards. the orange rose is also the center of the design, despite not being the focal point. AND. i love the hat design, it's a shame we don't see it in the picture. his judge hair is pretty cool too

i like that the tips of his thorns are blue thou. could it be... nail polish??

somehow you're really great at making swirly organic shapes too. it seems like something that should be easy, but as i struggle with keeping them balanced – it's not, so nicely done. the things on his leaf-plume, especially.

the mantle – i love the design, but when you shade things thickly around the edges, and lighter towards the center, it gets volume. leaves, especially, should be shaded the other way around, so the light penetrated the edges. subsurface scattering!

once i had a conversation about skin with a friend and another friend butted in like "are you talking about skin and elli hasn't said 'surface scattering' yet?", that's how much i apparently like to talk about how totally sweet it is. give into it, Viridescent! on the topic of shading, the details on the side of his face could have needed some more shaidng and volume, so i could see how it's layered - now i only see it in the side view pic

i remember you took a dig at 'lame shakespearian references' before and i don't know if you aimed it at me but i'm not gonna stop

ill pm the 3d thang.

[Ironbound]

Zzz when I tell you something is a cartoon I mean it's a cartoon, that's to say, I don't care that much about the execution and shading. It's not a steel type, I'm not going to put even half the effort of Haxorus in it XD

But thanks anyways. And I've seen your PM.

[Halloween]

this is like having this as an only reference for mona lisa; your scan quality is dropping

i've always thought the red-blue-yellow colorwheel looked appalling; a relic of old teaching that people still cling to as there's still people that quote freud. this, however is gorgeous. love the black parts with the colored insides, especially, and how rounded they are.

this is what messy art is supposed to look like – organized chaos. the image doesn't look cluttered at all, kudos. though i feel like it'd be even better without the tri attack, it sort of... grounds it? plus especially the yellow one distracts from porygon itself.

but that shading. it would, quite frankly, look better with flat colors; there's only one other artist i can think of that shades like you do, Viridescent, and that's this guy

i don't even know his name, though i imagine there's people on this site that could inform me. but look at that "all lightning comes directly from the front except for when it indiscriminately doesn't"

but the glitches look amazing; i can't believe you're drawing this by hand, with how it overlaps. it has a very 3d feel, even with your questionable shading, and that despite that some of the glitches are very much 2d, like the binary code. his beak nearly dissolving! booyah. this is in my top 3 of your arts.

off topic, but im gonna continuing really busy the rest of this week, so if you post something new, expect it to take a few days before i can get back on it.

[Ironbound]

Now would be a hilariously tragicomic time to break this to you, but you needn't worry about being away for the rest of this week. I will be making a nice looking goodbye thread as well, so I'm not repeating that unusually sentimental sop here.

Tootles, folks, and see y'all in November or December or next year or next decade or whenever!

To clarify: this thread is CLOSED. comments if any are welcome, though they will now be historical, and I'm grateful to all of you here for your support.

[Alchemia Chan]

I sure am gonna miss silently staring in awe of your artworks from a distance since I am not a good critic.

I bet by the time you come back, you'll be much better in every way while retaining the current you we have learned to love and enjoy spending time with.

Here's to hoping.

[Ironbound]

Surprise!

I had some time so... Mega Flygon, I suppose. It was fun to do this again after what, 45 days at least? More like two months since I actually drew anything. Poor Flygon deserved one, at least.

Flygon was always a good Pokemon theoretically, but it suffered from mediocre stats, lack of set up moves, and being completely overshadowed by Garchomp and even Zygarde, to the point where having a wonderfully wide movepool on both spectra, access to Roost, Syealth Rock, Defog and U-turn, as well as a great typing augmented by Levitate (theoretically also making it one of the best defoggers, since it has no Pursuit weakness, a resistance to Rock and immunity to spikes and Toxic spikes) still doesn't cut it for it in higher tiers.

Mega Flygon fixes all of that. From a rather paltry 80/100/80/80/80/100 it goes to a well rounded 80/120/90/120/90/120, gaining a significant boost to speed and power while also improving its bulk marginally. It retains the Dragon/Ground typing and Levitate. This alone makes it play the role of a fast pivot with Defog very well, and a mixed set with high powered moves like STAB Draco Meteor and Earthquake hurts even from a rather modest (for a mega) base 120 offensive stats. Fire Blast, Stone Edge and Boomburst only make it better.

Aesthetically, this is my tamest Mega yet, in the sense that no drastic change from the original has been implemented (but then, nothing needed to an overhaul. i believe that the modest alterations in the design emphasize that Mega Flygon is an upgrade and not a remake.)

It's better to enumerate the small differences rather than the similarities in this case. Flygon's crest has three points, with a large central one, instead of two longish ones that it has in its base form. It has an additional set of gem-like compound eyes embedded in its forehead. Its body is more clearly segmented and has more striations, brown and gold now instead of greenish. Its rhomboid wings are now dark coverts rimmed with glod and tipped in bright red. Flight is instead achieved by a pair of translucent folding inner wings, with red triangles framing the edge. Flygon's arms and fingers have receded, only being golden nubs with long red nails, whereas its hind legs have developed: it now has armored thighs and has four curved talons on each foot, two at the toes and two at the heels.

Now for the real change. I wanted to break the game so I gave it a set up move. Dragon Dance? Eh, doesn't quite fit. It is more of a bug anyways, so wynaut give it Quiver Dance? It goes much better with the whole mirage-of-the-desert thing. See how glorious it is as it rises out of the sand, whipping up a cascading shower of particles as it flutters!

Yeah, now it's broken I guess. GG.

Anyway, it's been fun drawing this. I doubt I can do another anytime soon, but for now I've had enough fun playing truant. Until later~

PS: big thanks to everyone here, and all that good stuff.

[Ironbound]

Spoilers! Don't we love 'em?

;]

[Ironbound]

More hints.

Wouldn't it be horrifying in real life to construct a Metagross mecha?

[Ironbound]

Just random drawings. A pen sketch again, after a longish while. I like to call these things 'free mind' sketches, where the pen takes command without a premeditated design imagined. It just takes shadow on impulse, so even I don't know how it turns out. Negative space is crucial to show the texture of black, white and grey here, since after all pen ink is only black, and strokes cannot be reversed or corrected.

Wendel calls it 'rawrburd'.

[Raindrop Valkyrie]

I know it's taken me awhile to get this... but... glad to see this place back again.

I'd do a toast, but 1. Cliche, and 2. I don't drink.

So, in spirits I suppose.~

also tfw

Just random drawings. A pen sketch again, after a longish while. I like to call these things 'free mind' sketches, where the pen takes command without a premeditated design imagined. It just takes shadow on impulse, so even I don't know how it turns out.

Taking lessons from me now huh?

Jokes aside... that is exactly how I write. I let a whim guide me. The thing that comes out on paper is the passion of the moment, the ideas my mind weaves in the moment before they hit paper. It might be a sloppy method aye... but... to me it's the most organic. It's human. Cause life rarely follows a plan. Now... plans ain't worthless, but they are rigid. They don't really allow a lot of wiggle room. And sometimes... life demands you switch gear, change course, on the drop of a dime. a hat... whatever metaphor one wishes to use. That's why I write the way I do, it feels the most human to me. It feels the most truthful, the most organic. The most real. Perhaps it makes me a silly man. Perhaps. There's a reason at times... I refuse to edit. The blemishes almost feel... like part of the honesty to me. The mistakes and typos... mistakes of emotion. Most wouldn't ever agree with me ((and for my big major pieces or ones I really care about I do edit.)), and I'm okay with that honestly. I'm a bit of an idealist, ya see. One who thinks ideals are beyond stupid... and yet... one nonetheless. I don't really know why I'm saying this, but I feel it's something I should say. Perhaps... because as a friend of mine you've told me a few things yourself. Think about why you draw... what you feel when you draw. And wonder once more... a few questions you've asked me. Maybe it'll work itself out, maybe it'll be muddled all the more. Guess that's life though ain't it?

Anywho, this has been a long roundabout way to say hello again to this thread. But... it wouldn't be a proper Hukuna hello without my wall of text now would it lol? Anyway... I'm happy to see things here again. Maybe in my next post I'll comment on some things, rather than be a big dopey sap. ((or maybe I'll do both... who knows?))

[Ironbound]

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh.

Welcome back, and let's hope this thing shakes the rust off and starts getting things done again.

Also tbh only this particular style of 'fantasy' sketches really work our in the freestyle mode, so to speak. Most of my other works usually have a clear premeditated image conceived before I start drawing. But in this sort of stuff it's better to turn the brain off and let the mind work, yes. Risk is higher, though, since I don't use pencil or eraser and do not make a framework to build on, but rather just venture without trial.

But yes, thanks for the long-winded welcome! Now to see if the Virirep syndrome starts off again

[Raindrop Valkyrie]

lol, the only thing I'm saying is that you at least know somewhat what I do. Predominately you have a plan butin this instant... nothing but instinct is the plan. Instinct is the thing I rely on moreso than a rigid plan struture. It's got it's weaknesses... but it's got it's strengths too lol. My only meanin' by it is maybe... juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust maybe my thought process isn't as mystical and foreign as ya think lol.

I still think Pheonix on that one... though now... it's looks like it's wearing a mask almost...or moreso what I mean... is that it's face sort a reflects the sorta strong angles that masks tend to have ((especially masquerade style ones.)) It gives it a very spirit like feeling, rather than that of an ordinary animal. Otherworldy, ethereal. The Plumage on the head only furthers it, making it look like a headdress, almost Native American in style. Pretty. beautiful... and yet fierce. Strong. Primal in nature. Perhaps this is the reason for my impression.

[Ironbound]

Clap clap clap *bows*

Yes, I did intend to give it an otherworldly, ethereal imprint. Hence the whole fantastic theme, though as usual I try to preserve some kind of biological accuracy in it. It may be a Primeval raptorial creature of some kind, yes, half dinosaur and half bird, though whether the feathers are for display, insulation or may be capable of flight is yet to be seen. Maybe it is multipurpose, who knows?

[Ironbound]

So I'm starting a new series because wynaut. It's called PokeAlphabet!

It's simple; I do a casual cartoon of a move being used by a Pokemon, one move for every letter of the Alphabet. So it would be A for Aura Sphere, showing Lucario, maybe, and B for Bullet Punch with Scizor, and C for Close Combat with Cobalion, and so on. And as you'd expect and as you've already seen, the users of the lives in each case will all be Steel types!

So, kids, let's learn the Alphabet; A is for:

Went with a hieroglyphic theme, because Anubis-Lucario for obvious reasons. Togekiss also learns Aura Sphere and makes a fine job of representing the spirit.

Let's see how this goes, shall we?

[Lugruf]

That togekiss looks more like a latios actually

[Ironbound]

Mmh, I thought so too, but I didn't think that was a bad thing. Oh well, the next one's gonna be a lot grimmer :^]

[Cyanna Cyril]

So I'm starting a new series because wynaut. It's called PokeAlphabet!

It's simple; I do a casual cartoon of a move being used by a Pokemon, one move for every letter of the Alphabet. So it would be A for Aura Sphere, showing Lucario, maybe, and B for Bullet Punch with Scizor, and C for Close Combat with Cobalion, and so on. And as you'd expect and as you've already seen, the users of the lives in each case will all be Steel types!

So, kids, let's learn the Alphabet; A is for:

Went with a hieroglyphic theme, because Anubis-Lucario for obvious reasons. Togekiss also learns Aura Sphere and makes a fine job of representing the spirit.

Let's see how this goes, shall we?

It's a little difficult for me to make out where the aura sphere is in relation to the two pokemon. Maybe you could make it a little more pronounced? Also, this seems like a fun idea so keep on going Viri!

[Makkilemore]

I think you already know my opinions on nearly every piece so far but god DAMN viri you good

[Ironbound]

Aw, thanks, fish!

And now, are ya ready, kids? Time to learn the next letter! This time, it's B! B is for Brass Knuckles, B is for Bloodshed, B is for Broken Bones and B is for Bullet Punch!

I mean, that's all Scizor has been doing doing since Platinum. To great effect.

it's only for you that I didn't add a dead ice type or two among the corpses, xiri

[Ironbound]

Azery, remember this? It's that one Gen4 stall team that never dies, huehuehue...

Honestly tell me, what beats good ol' ObiStall? With a few tweaks, it works just as well in any Gen4 OU. The closest things that come to being threats are Infernape and Jirachi, but cautious play and scouting allow one to disclose their sets, and then either Tentacruel or Hippowdon can wall 'em easily.

[Alchemia Chan]

Azery, remember this? It's that one Gen4 stall team that never dies, huehuehue...

Honestly tell me, what beats good ol' ObiStall? With a few tweaks, it works just as well in any Gen4 OU. The closest things that come to being threats are Infernape and Jirachi, but cautious play and scouting allow one to disclose their sets, and then either Tentacruel or Hippowdon can wall 'em easily.

Everyone are doing their stuff being all sorts of badass while Blissey be like "Weeee!!!~".

Where's the one with the Noble Water-types?

[Ironbound]

Oh, my b.

Here you go, the snob team:

Warning: extremely lazy sketch

Empoleon Bonaparte

Sir Jellicent Pringleton

Venus de Milotic

Baron le Brut, Kingler

Baron le Bête, Slowking (he could still use some pants tbh)

Kingdradus Megatherion

Wailord, Lord of the Deep

Quagsire, Lord of the Derp

So many water types are snobs, they've got some kind of title in their very names!