I wish they
were the movie. Leave everyone else out, and get a different artist. The world of Garde is full of limitless possiblities, the movie could be about anything and it would work out fine.
But then again, the movie is fine as it is, mainly because it has Mew, and I like the goofy costumes they happen to be wearing. It just better have a good helping of Team Rocket this time, or I'm gonna have a "talk" with the higher-ups at...whoever's developing the movies.
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Boredom does strange things to you. It seems that with every interest group I get into, I show a collection of pics I've drawn starting from early ones to later ones. I'm not generally embarrassed by older pics, it shows how far I've come, but this time may be a little different...
So here I'm gonna post up a collection of Kirlia pictures, starting from the very first to something I did yesterday. I'm gonna post links, as I don't really wanna draw to much attention to it.
Brief recap of my Kirlia story: Long story short, before the US ever recieved much info on R/S outside of picture releases (and hoaxes) of the starters, I found a Japanese website with a picture of Kirlia. At the time, I thought it had no evolution (or pre evo) and thought it was a grass+psychic type (I thought it was like some forest/lake spirit/faerie or something). Craziness and obsession grew from that point on. That's why I favor Kirlia the most.
Not having seen official art yet, the first picture I drew was based more or less off the fan art, although
that was pretty close to official anyway.
So yeah, here's that. And there's notes there too, to prove that it has been a habit of mine for years now...
https://hstrial-rstrongo.homestead....his_picture__and_I_will_find_AND_kill_you.JPG
You may or may not have seen the art I based that off of, but if you have, you can tell I was trying to mimic it.
(Side note: The site I found that at also had Kuchiito. Insert same story, and yes, I thought she was a grass type too)
Any art afterward looked more or less the same, until I finally got a promo poster from a Nintendo Power with all the Houen Pokemon (helped me learn them faster). So then I started to draw like this...
https://hstrial-rstrongo.homestead.com/files/pokestuff/too_lazy_to_edit.JPG
Above was Dustox and next to her, Armaldo. I could've edited them out, but...y'know...
So pictures there looked more official back then (if the eyes were open, they still hid part way under the hair such as the official design has it), then as with everything I get used to drawing, I started to deviate, albeit slightly.
IGNORE ANYTHING KIRLIA SAYS. <_<;;
https://hstrial-rstrongo.homestead.com/files/pokestuff/embarassing....JPG
Continue foward, I got used to drawing it the way I saw fit. She starts to look a lot less official (without going too far, anyway). Here's one of the several moon pictures I've drawn. I must never tire of it or something...
https://hstrial-rstrongo.homestead.com/files/pokestuff/cliche.JPG
And from that to pretty much this, something recent (as you can probably tell).
https://hstrial-rstrongo.homestead.com/files/pokestuff/devoted_to_one.JPG
And yeah, there you have it. Trust me, it was hard to find pictures where they weren't crappy/generically drawn, group pictures/with Kucheat, or
shameless FSembarassing. And because it's so obviously blatant, that's probably why this compilation is more or less an embarassment then anything else I've done.
In case you're wondering "What about the other two?", I never really cared about them til I found the Japanese fanworshipping sites. Ralts got lucky, though, being drawn for a long time in a comic series and just generally being easier to draw. As for Garde, I can probably count the number of times I've drawn her on one hand, prior to visiting the Japanese sites that is. That's probably why I still have a hard time drawing her today. Conversely, I can draw a
decent Kirlia in a minute or less.
Now before that moment of "why the heck did I just post this" sets in, I'm going to divert your attention by posting up art both better and odder than mine! And will the low attention spans today, no one will ever have read that whole thing. I can't lose! *runs far and hides in a dark corner*