Hullo, I'm HeaLnDeaL, and this is my art thread. I'm a BFA MFA art student and primarily work in non-digital medium, but this thread will house my digital fan art stuff (which couldn't be more different from my "serious" art, which isn't usually even 2D). I might post some traditional media stuff eventually, but for now this thread will focus on digital creations.
I'm pretty active in Smogon CAP, so a decent portion of my digital stuff deals with that somehow. Therefore I'll be dividing my OP into GameFreak Pokemon and Smogon CAP fan art. At this time I don't have a ton to share, but people have been bugging me a lot to make a thread, so here goes.
I use paint.net and pretty much always work on top of a pencil drawing that I scan/photograph and import as the base layer. I'm not that great with a stylus, probably because of my traditional background, but I've found this scan-and-trace method works for me : )
Sadly, I am not taking requests since I'm busy with school.
Art for OU Spotlight: Garchomp.
Art for LC Room article
Art for OU Spotlight: Landorus-T
Art for OU Spotlight: Heatran
Art for Johto Classic
For LC Spotlight: Corphish.
Art I made for Keldeo's OU Spotlight. I kinda miss my shading style I did for Altaria and Weavile, so hopefully that will return later. Sadly I have some more works I did after Keldeo that don't have my former shading style either, though :/
I made this one for Weavile's OU Spotlight in the Smog. I had a lot of fun working with so many layers and the transparencies between them.
I made this piece for an article on the CAP Metagame in the Smog. It features Volkraken and Mollux having an underwater firefight, partly inspired by how Fire-type moves work just fine underwater when using Dive in-game.
Thread art requested by sparktrain for the CAP Ladder Streaks thread. The concept is Aurumoth using Overheat while masquerading as a Manaphy. Finished 4/9/16, taking roughly 5 hours of work time. Kinda makes me pumped; this was also the return of my gradient style with hidden outlines for shadows and highlights, like what I did with Weavile and Altaria.
I made this to try and hype the first CAP metagame Team Tournament, and it's meant to show the fickle relationship and intense competition between Necturna and Colossoil in the CAP metagame; Colossoil's Rebound ability can screw with Necturna's Sticky Web while Colo's Guts can screw with Nect's Will-O-Wisp. At the same time, Necturna commonly runs Colbur berry to be able to absorb a hit and deal massive damage back with either Power Whip or Horn Leech, which are somewhat shown in action above (in general I think I really like these types of intense match ups, which can also be said to some degree in my Weavile vs Mega Alt). I might later continue on this piece and include more CAPmons into the battle.
This one's a bit older, and is one of the first times I started using paint.net's line tool to trace over my pencil sketches. The ribbon text from "wish" and "star" are from da font, though I had to go in and make some of the lines a bit wider with the eraser tool. I drew Sylveon's ribbons to spell BOWS, which stands for Bulky Offense w/ Wish Support; kind of a variation on stall. This art was originally made for a post I did talking about BOWS in the CAP metagame.
Morningwood Timburrs!
I made this one for an irl friend's birthday... His favorite g6 mon is Heliolisk, and his personal catchphrase is Be Amazed. This piece is my fastest completed composition in paint.net to date, in part because I was rushing in order to get it done in time. It took roughly 3 or 4 hours. The text is not mine and is from da font.
I'm pretty active in Smogon CAP, so a decent portion of my digital stuff deals with that somehow. Therefore I'll be dividing my OP into GameFreak Pokemon and Smogon CAP fan art. At this time I don't have a ton to share, but people have been bugging me a lot to make a thread, so here goes.
I use paint.net and pretty much always work on top of a pencil drawing that I scan/photograph and import as the base layer. I'm not that great with a stylus, probably because of my traditional background, but I've found this scan-and-trace method works for me : )
Sadly, I am not taking requests since I'm busy with school.
Art for OU Spotlight: Garchomp.
Art for LC Room article
Art for OU Spotlight: Landorus-T
Art for OU Spotlight: Heatran
Art for Johto Classic
For LC Spotlight: Corphish.
Art I made for Keldeo's OU Spotlight. I kinda miss my shading style I did for Altaria and Weavile, so hopefully that will return later. Sadly I have some more works I did after Keldeo that don't have my former shading style either, though :/
I made this one for Weavile's OU Spotlight in the Smog. I had a lot of fun working with so many layers and the transparencies between them.
I made this piece for an article on the CAP Metagame in the Smog. It features Volkraken and Mollux having an underwater firefight, partly inspired by how Fire-type moves work just fine underwater when using Dive in-game.
Thread art requested by sparktrain for the CAP Ladder Streaks thread. The concept is Aurumoth using Overheat while masquerading as a Manaphy. Finished 4/9/16, taking roughly 5 hours of work time. Kinda makes me pumped; this was also the return of my gradient style with hidden outlines for shadows and highlights, like what I did with Weavile and Altaria.
I made this to try and hype the first CAP metagame Team Tournament, and it's meant to show the fickle relationship and intense competition between Necturna and Colossoil in the CAP metagame; Colossoil's Rebound ability can screw with Necturna's Sticky Web while Colo's Guts can screw with Nect's Will-O-Wisp. At the same time, Necturna commonly runs Colbur berry to be able to absorb a hit and deal massive damage back with either Power Whip or Horn Leech, which are somewhat shown in action above (in general I think I really like these types of intense match ups, which can also be said to some degree in my Weavile vs Mega Alt). I might later continue on this piece and include more CAPmons into the battle.
This one's a bit older, and is one of the first times I started using paint.net's line tool to trace over my pencil sketches. The ribbon text from "wish" and "star" are from da font, though I had to go in and make some of the lines a bit wider with the eraser tool. I drew Sylveon's ribbons to spell BOWS, which stands for Bulky Offense w/ Wish Support; kind of a variation on stall. This art was originally made for a post I did talking about BOWS in the CAP metagame.
Morningwood Timburrs!
I made this one for an irl friend's birthday... His favorite g6 mon is Heliolisk, and his personal catchphrase is Be Amazed. This piece is my fastest completed composition in paint.net to date, in part because I was rushing in order to get it done in time. It took roughly 3 or 4 hours. The text is not mine and is from da font.
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