Oh boy! I had a similar idea about painting the pok?mon instead
of spriting them, and seeing someone do so is quite uplifting!
I was wondering fellow, are the legendaries going to have a special
treatment? Maybe artist's-version like representations or a symbol
in the background? And what about other pok?mon with major roles,
traveling with certain characters? Will they have their own aesthetic
formes a-la Ash hat pikachu? (could be featuring accessories, minor physical differences, a symbol in the background or different postures)
There are definitely going to be Ash hat- pikachuish guys. Popplio especially is going to get the Pikachu treatment (though I might add other starters depending on how confident I feel about this game stuff)
Originally, I was just going to draw the "unique" pokemon sprites but I had trouble with Pixel art (like in my AV) but somehow I've gone back to trying to draw them so they all match.
And I do agree with eeveetree about the pixelated menu - which is something I'll probably end up redrawing (or tracing to save time) over.
Though I figure, I'm not using every single pokemon (at least for now) - and even if the game doesn't end up happening I'll still get some drawing experience out of it.
Also while I'm still here, I've been playing with making a tile set.
I think I'm just going to end up redrawing all the tchar sprites too on top of making my own tiles.
This project will be the death of me.
edit:
After doing a bit of testing, I think I might have to scrap the idea of doing tilesets, it just feels like way too much - I would hopefully like to at least have a demo out before gen 7 runs its course. And I don't think I'll make it since I'm kind of struggling with it.
One last edit for this:
Well, A nice guy on the forums kind of got me motivated to try working with the tiles again, and I am feeling a bit better about how it looks:
Don't know if there's really anything else to say about this now since I feel like I'm okay with it. Outside of getting the auto tiles to snap better and the giant furnitue. And how to organize the tiles themselves because my sheets right now are all over the place.