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Hello everyone! Welcome to my humble little thread, The Strumline.
I'm Magistrum.
Shameless self promotion[AKA history]¬
I've been a fan of Pokemon games since I was a kid, experiencing each generation either by console [gen 1-3] or emulator[gen 4-5].
I've always liked drawing, but only took it seriously the time I pursued Architecture and joined as an artist in our college paper. I got the hang of trad drawing during those years and has greatly influenced my style. My main media is pencil, ink and color pens. My work is sketchy at the pencil stage since I always finalize it with inking. Coloring was optional.
A couple of my works back then:[although these are rejects since I cannot post the published ones]
The first one is pencil(albeit finalized)
This is my attempt to manganize the Anito, guardian spirits of Philippine folklore.
FYI Jollibee is a fastfood chain that beats international staples like McDonald's, KFC and Burger King in the Philippine Fastfood scene.
1. Of course the pencilwork goes first...
2. Buuuut before getting to the inking stage, I photocopy it first. Why? because the sketch is an artwork in itself already. The copy is what I ink while the original goes to my folio. That's why the sketch is cleaned a bit.
3. Inking Stage
4. Photocopy the output again. This is usually the most annoying step. Although the lines are defined from the inking, the photocopy usually lowers its quality so I redraw the lines. This step is actually what my art director implies as refining my inking skills. Of course, the original line art is also stashed into the folio. After reinking the hardcopy...
5. Coloring Stage
Overall this process is arduous but it is quite fulfilling, netting you at least 3 artworks! I actually once made 4 copies on the 4th step of another artwork to make different color schemes in the coloring stage. If you have the time [and patience] why not try this out?
Color pens heavily influenced my style in digital art. My artworks usually has vivid colors as a result.
Then WACOM TABLET happened. I graduated when I got my hands on it about 3 years ago [I've tried it a bit but didn't touch it again until recently though because of work constraints]. Currently I am learning the ropes in digital art [yeah I'm slow in joining the digital art bandwagon] and I'm hoping to learn a lot and impart with everyone!
My first digital artworks:
A random chick sitting on his eggshell. I wish I just made it into Torchic instead.
This is a fanart of my ingame character in Ragnarok Online, Thalassa Frostbane. Actually when I showed this to my guildmates, they suddenly wanted to marry me ingame, which was awkward since at that time, I haven't told them yet that I'm a guy.
A collection of sketches of my guildmates, again from Ragnarok Online.
A sketch of random job classes, yet again from Ragnarok Online.
...Until I decided to contribute to Smogon as an artist.
(I know people are generally turned off with people from smogon, calling them elitist bastards or whatever. What these people don't understand is that like every other forum community, it has its fair share of good and bad people. Try registering and experincing it for yourself for once, then judge afterwards.)
Involving myself with other artists in a site with the same interests as mine helps improve my skill as an artist. During this time I think I've improved my digital art a little, and have broadened my horizons by trying digital painting and seeing how other artists do their artworks.
Here is a slew of pokemon artworks (in no chronological order) that I've made for various Smogon users' requests and Smogon's webzine, The Smog:
As always, comments, critiques and criticisms are welcome.
