Blazing Fakemon

Started by Ivee March 22nd, 2010 9:33 PM
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Ivee

Ask me about Trailblazer :3

Female
Seen May 22nd, 2019
Posted March 21st, 2018
66 posts
13.6 Years
Please don't request I create sprites for your hacks/games.
Also I changed my mind about letting my sprites be used in other games, sorry.
Updated: May 29
Wemur More info in the spoiler

It took me about 6 months to get enough posts to have pictures :bandit:
I've done sprites on and off for a few years but this recent batch, from around autumn of 2009 to now, are my favorites. I've inserted a handful of them into a rom, and it's so cool to finally see my Pokemon in a game. Besides inserting and editing Pokemon, I have zero hack skills. Onto the Pokes:

Nubbit, Buncy, and Dandijack

I'm the most proud of these bad boys. The limbs of Dandijack bother me slightly. Its legs are sort of inspired by Mewtwo and Lucario. I admit that Nubbit's design is really simple.
Nubbit holds the role of Grass starter in Ivee-made-up region land. I see it as having strong Speed and Attack, average Special stats, and low HP and Defense. It looks docile but can produce deadly spores and dust to make a quick getaway. Its evolutions, especially the final one, are more prone to fight back.

More under spoilers:

Spoiler:

Flurp, and nameless ducks (though one is Wallard)

Flurp is my newest sprite, so it is still in the tweaking stages. Its feet need a lot of work, but everything else is fine imo. I like the way the water ducks look, but the problem I have with them is that they are fairly boring. I'm not a big fan of Water types anyway :/.
Incomplete lines of the other starters. Flurp the fire frog takes a similar role to the Totodile line; it can take and dish out hits but is a little on the slow side. I thought it was about time we had a fire starter who wasn't a lightning brawler (though Blaziken has sort of average speed).
There's nothing much to say on the Water ducks. They have great special stats and good Speed.

Ninjami, Ninjamya, and Ninjaruka.

These three have a very special place in my heart, for they were the first Pokemon I made up, many years ago. I like the way Ninjami looks the best. Ninjaruka is one of those sprites I liked a lot at the time I made it, but now I find her pose really bland and unbalanced, especially compared to Dandijack (who I sprited not long after Ninjaruka). And now that I look at it, Ninjamya is having smoothness issues with its belly and right leg (its right).
Ninjami is a Poison/Fighting type who is found fairly early. It is not a Rattata equivalent. It is fast and has good Attack. The final form, Ninjaruka, becomes Dark/Fighting and also immune to Poison.

Iglet, Pignite, and Pignition

I am fairly happy with these sprites. Pignition may get a re-sprite one day. Its legs bother me a lot and it looks too much like Pumbaa from the Lion King.
People tend to complain about lack of Fire types in Pokemon games. Iglet will be found relatively early. While Iglet is very timid and shy, Pignite is rather feral and ornery. Pignite makes its home in wetlands where it messes up the ecosystem by devouring any plantlife or Pokemon eggs it can find. Wild Pignition are extremely feared Pokemon. They are Fire/Dark type.

Fledglet and Scrowl

I'm mostly satisfied with these sprites, except Scrowl's wing. Birds are really hard for me for some reason.
Your generic early-game bird. Fledglet is a little different in that it is pure Normal type who becomes Normal/Flying upon evolution. This line does have a 3rd form who is not sprited yet.

Porcumine and Burrowatt

Electric/Ground Porcupines. Porcumine is actually the first one I sprited of this batch. I like how Burrowatt looks, except that its shading and quills seem off. I imagine them as being similar to the Sandshrew line in terms of strength, but probably better Special Attack.
Porcumine is very timid by nature. It prefers to stay buried under ground, and will shock an enemy and then run away rather than fight. Burrowatt, on the other hand, is extremely territorial. It bravely challenges anything who enters its territory, swinging it dangerous, spiked tail.

Scorchops, Triscorch, Saburr, and Sabredon
I like how all of these sprites came out except for Saburr's face. It looks too flat. All of these are re-dos of older sprites. I should post some of my laughably bad old sprites sometime.
The fire dinosaurs, once starters, are now fossils, with the ice cats being their counterparts. The dinosaurs are Fire/Ground while the cats are pure Ice.
Thrickle, Coyobi, and Gileye

Gileye may get a redesign in the future. I am not liking its chibi proportions, especially since it's a non evolving Pokemon.
All three of these Pokemon are desert dwellers. Based on the horny toad, pure Grass Thrickle shoots blood from its red eyes to scare off predators, if its thorny hide doesn't work. It has an evolution named Diabuaro, who does not have a final design yet.
Coyobi the Ground/Psychic coyote, and Gileye the Poison/Dark gila monster, I can see as being counterparts in a way. Neither evolve and their typings are super-effective against eachother.


Woolbee, Bumbuzz, and Crownarch.

Woolbee took about 3 or 4 tries til it came out the way I liked. Both Woolbee and Crownarch I made today, Bumbuzz is a few months old. I'll probably tighten up Crownarch's outlining as time gos on and I notice more flaws.
This bee line (snerk) is not terribly ground-breaking, but they are interesting in a few ways. Woolbee evolves at a low level (between 10 and 15), but Bumbuzz requires the extremely rare Royal Jelly item to evolve into Crownarch. The entire family is pure Bug. Bumbuzz's ability is Levitate while Crownarch has Thick Fat. In addition to its ability, Crownarch has very high defenses and many support moves to make up for its poor speed.


Names Pending


I like these guys. I find purple (and blue) hard to work with, but they came out ok, I think. Need to improve on the big one's floofies, though.
If the little one looks like an Eevee to anyone... it's because its design is based on an old Ice Eeveelution of mine from about a decade ago. I miss eeveelutions having a mane as their trademark :/. Anyway, the small fox is obviously based on the arctic fox. This Pokemon is rare because it was over-hunted for its fur. When it runs, it whips up a small, chilling whirlwind to distract its foes.
The evolved fox is blindingly fast. It is associated with harsh, winter winds. Nobody knows if its eerie howls are produced vocally or by its breezes.
As for names. Someone suggested Spritz, which makes me think of sodas. It may work for the smaller one, whose placeholder name is Wispup. Other name ideas are Breezoro (lol Zoroark) and Howlopex (from howl and alopex, the order of arctic foxes). Names are hard :/.

Wemur
It is a pure Electric type who eventually becomes an Electric/Fighting gorilla. Not much to say about it. Because it is more "exotic" than my other mostly North American Pokemon, it may be found only in the Safari Zone or its equivalent.


More to come, I didn't want to overload the first post.

Esper

California
Seen June 30th, 2018
Posted June 30th, 2018
These are all very high quality sprites. The coloring is pleasant, the shading looks completely consistent with official sprites, you have light and dark contrasted just enough and no more, and the line work is smooth all around. Your designs are simple, but not boring. It would be very easy to make three rabbit-based sprites and only have them get slightly larger and "tougher"-looking each time, but you changed the poses, the color schemes, and the designs to make them unique. I especially like that the ears are different on each of them.

The only thing that really stands out to me as needing work is the line of fire-pigs. They're a big monochromatic and the fire looks a bit rough. Quite fantastic otherwise.

Ivee

Ask me about Trailblazer :3

Female
Seen May 22nd, 2019
Posted March 21st, 2018
66 posts
13.6 Years
Thanks for the compliments :).

About the pigs... real ones do come in different colors and markings, though when someone says "pig", the garden variety pink ones come to mind. I agree on the fire looking rough, for some reason the random nature of fire is kind of a challenge to sprite. I'll work on them sometime and repost them.

Fledglet and Scrowl

I'm mostly satisfied with these sprites, except Scrowl's wing. Birds are really hard for me for some reason.
Your generic early-game bird. Fledglet is a little different in that it is pure Normal type who becomes Normal/Flying upon evolution. This line does have a 3rd form who is not sprited yet.

Porcumine and Burrowatt

Electric/Ground Porcupines. Porcumine is actually the first one I sprited of this batch. I like how Burrowatt looks, except that its shading and quills seem off. I imagine them as being similar to the Sandshrew line in terms of strength, but probably better Special Attack.
Porcumine is very timid by nature. It prefers to stay buried under ground, and will shock an enemy and then run away rather than fight. Burrowatt, on the other hand, is extremely territorial. It bravely challenges anything who enters its territory, swinging it dangerous, spiked tail.

Scorchops, Triscorch, Saburr, and Sabredon
I like how all of these sprites came out except for Saburr's face. It looks too flat. All of these are re-dos of older sprites. I should post some of my laughably bad old sprites sometime.
The fire dinosaurs, once starters, are now fossils, with the ice cats being their counterparts. The dinosaurs are Fire/Ground while the cats are pure Ice.
Thrickle, Coyobi, and Gileye

Gileye may get a redesign in the future. I am not liking its chibi proportions, especially since it's a non evolving Pokemon.
All three of these Pokemon are desert dwellers. Based on the horny toad, pure Grass Thrickle shoots blood from its red eyes to scare off predators, if its thorny hide doesn't work. It has an evolution named Diabuaro, who does not have a final design yet.
Coyobi the Ground/Psychic coyote, and Gileye the Poison/Dark gila monster, I can see as being counterparts in a way. Neither evolve and their typings are super-effective against eachother.

More to come...

The Cynic

♥ These Perfect Abattoirs ♥

Male
Pavonis Mons
Seen January 28th, 2012
Posted July 21st, 2011
845 posts
14.5 Years
You are a very talented spriter indeed! They all look very professional and the detail is immaculate.

I especially like the rabbit evo line; they progress smoothly and the design is faultless.

I'm not so keep on Flurp but I understand he's a work in progress. The pig evo line could do with a little work in colour and detail. I also suggest you move your new sprites to the 1st post so that it is easier to see them.

Keep up the good work!

~The Cynic~

Age 26
Male
Somewhere...
Seen August 3rd, 2010
Posted April 2nd, 2010
50 posts
13.6 Years
Wow... all these look extremely detailed and the concepts for them are amazing. Good work on that!
The only thing that sort of bothers me is that the bird Fledglet kind of looks like he's twisting his head, even though he isn't.

I think that's all that I felt was weird, but all of them are great. I have nothing to say about them, just that they're great. :rambo:





Age 27
Male
In your head
Seen April 22nd, 2012
Posted July 29th, 2011
336 posts
13.3 Years
Wow, you could be a professional.
WOw, yeah I agree with that, you are really good, pure awsomeness! XD, I really hope to see some more :D
Who doesn't like Sinnoh now?

Yeah The"Richar
Visit my trade thread!!!
When I CMT please post in it :3

Involuntary Twitch

Oripoke

Female
USA
Seen December 10th, 2020
Posted September 2nd, 2019
658 posts
17.7 Years
Oh, wow! Yes, looks like you're very skilled indeed! I love your ideas and execution, especially the way you do faces and eyes-- they're very expressive and likeable. You'll have to give me some tips. :3

Not so much a fan of the all-color outlines, but they work with your style so I'm not gonna complain. I do think you could use a little more work on outline shading and smoothing out your fire (which is slightly scribbly at the moment). It's clear you are very skilled.

Ivee

Ask me about Trailblazer :3

Female
Seen May 22nd, 2019
Posted March 21st, 2018
66 posts
13.6 Years
Oh hey, got sick when I returned and then forgot about making more sprites :o

Thanks, Zephyr+. I'll need to look at actual fire Pokemon sprites for reference. There's atleast 2 gen 3 Pokemon sprites with no black in their outline, Lombre and Claydol. And they do look strange as a result, hm.


Woolbee, Bumbuzz, and Crownarch.

Woolbee took about 3 or 4 tries til it came out the way I liked. Both Woolbee and Crownarch I made today, Bumbuzz is a few months old. I'll probably tighten up Crownarch's outlining as time gos on and I notice more flaws.
This bee line (snerk) is not terribly ground-breaking, but they are interesting in a few ways. Woolbee evolves at a low level (between 10 and 15), but Bumbuzz requires the extremely rare Royal Jelly item to evolve into Crownarch. The entire family is pure Bug. Bumbuzz's ability is Levitate while Crownarch has Thick Fat. In addition to its ability, Crownarch has very high defenses and many support moves to make up for its poor speed.

Ivee

Ask me about Trailblazer :3

Female
Seen May 22nd, 2019
Posted March 21st, 2018
66 posts
13.6 Years
That's funny, because I was thinking I was having too many 3rd stages myself. I guess I just like them a lot, lol. There's still a lot of concepts that haven't been sprited yet, though. Not counting added evolutions, I believe gen 1 had the most 3 stage families, so i could use that as reference for a threshold.

Ivee

Ask me about Trailblazer :3

Female
Seen May 22nd, 2019
Posted March 21st, 2018
66 posts
13.6 Years
Thanks for all the comments :). These are made in mspaint btw.
Today I'll show off a few fun things in addition to a new Pokemon line (that I'll need help naming).

New 'mons!

I like these guys. I find purple (and blue) hard to work with, but they came out ok, I think. Need to improve on the big one's floofies, though.
If the little one looks like an Eevee to anyone... it's because its design is based on an old Ice Eeveelution of mine from about a decade ago. I miss eeveelutions having a mane as their trademark :/. Anyway, the small fox is obviously based on the arctic fox. This Pokemon is rare because it was over-hunted for its fur. When it runs, it whips up a small, chilling whirlwind to distract its foes.
The evolved fox is blindingly fast. It is associated with harsh, winter winds. Nobody knows if its eerie howls are produced vocally or by its breezes.
As for names. Someone suggested Spritz, which makes me think of sodas. It may work for the smaller one, whose placeholder name is Wispup. Other name ideas are Breezoro (lol Zoroark) and Howlopex (from howl and alopex, the order of arctic foxes). Names are hard :/.

Ice fox! The making of!

Pretty self explanatory. Eevee is just there because it reminds me so much of one. Missing is the true step one which is concept sketches, but I was feeling too lazy to scan them.


Look how huge Nubbit used to be! I didn't know how to properly make smaller sprites back then... back then being this past August. Also used to swipe colors from existing sprites. As I kept making sprites, I improved on more dynamic posing and even some foreshortening (which I have trouble with in real drawings).