speedpaint reflection: OC 01 CSP timelapse
poyoy pondering the stylistic elements of pokemon art.
For your convenience, I have embedded my first ever youtube video for you to take a look at. I hope you guys appreciate the insight to the drawing in this method.
This was my first youtube video - I didn't really know what I was doing, and I honestly still don't know. I use a simple recording software and then speed up the painting process by the fastest amount possible, because I have a tendency to spend a lot of time on my drawings, and I don't think that it will make for a very fun speedpaint if I have it stretched out for all of my lull moments.
The assignment for this drawing was a Pokémon fusion - Pokémon put together. In this case, it was a Noivern and a barn owl. I almost mistook it for a Pokémon fusion but it was actually just a unique request prompt to mix a Noivern and barn owl together. You can see when I brought the official art for Noivern onto the canvas because I had no idea what I wanted to do. I then fiddled with ideas trying to incorporate the dragon elements of the noivern onto the character, I really wanted to maintain a major owl element to the character.
I wanted to emulate that pokemon style, but it was really difficult. The official artist for the official style that I was emulating is Ken Sugimori - I really wanted to copy that clean cel shaded style that we see in official Pokemon art.
I was struggling to maintain that line stroke confidence and ended up faltering stylistically - completely - I ended up resigning to that I was not able to emulate this style, and that I would need more practice. Taking a look at this speed paint again, I've come to appreciate Sugimori's style more- and I feel more inclined to study it further to appreciate that bubbly, lively, colorful and clean element in his work.
This is an older style of his that is a lot more traditional leaning - I feel like this can be emulated with copic markers or watercolors if desired, a very cute style that relies on both the chibi look of the characters and the bright colors to really come together. That gradient shift that you see in a lot of Ken Sugimori's work gives it this fresh airbrushed feeling, not sure how else to describe this element but it wasn't exactly what I'm talking about -- I was looking more at Sugimori's other official pokemon artwork. Simpler, more graphic/cartoon? I'm not sure how to describe it other than cleaner lines and color?
Take a look here -- I was really focused on the simple shading of Sugimori's work. There is the main hue, the shade, and then the tint of that hue. Simple color palette to work from - but I still managed to botch it up... I just really need to try again!
I want to have a go at this challenge one more time. I really enjoyed trying to design something off of an already existing design + animal and then trying to incorporate a style with it.
Hope everyone has been doing well.
poyoy
