Pokevectors

YOOM-TAH

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    Recently I've been vectoring pokemon, and here's all the ones I have so far. I'm planning to do a large-scale Mystery Dungeon piece, for which I already have Wigglytuff and Duknoir, and I suppose Uxie. I'm currently working on Darkrai, expect that within a week or so.

    Click on the thumbnails for the full view.

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    All of these were created exclusively by me using Adobe Photoshop CS2's Pen Tool, as well as the Gradient Tool in a few of em.

    Here's my dA with all these pieces plus some other crap if anyone cares.

    https://theironforce.deviantart.com

    Comments always welcome!


    EDIT - Oops! I fogot Uxie. Added.
     
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    oh man, i remember these, about the time you did uxie i made my lucario picture, good times. and i remember when you made dusknoir, considering it was like about 2 weeks ago and i was making m darkrai picture and that other large piece that night. just a quick plug, my deviant art page if you wanna see any of my stuff, endgamev1.deviantart.com
     
    The Wigglytuff is nice, but besides that, I'm just saying that there's nothing here that you could actually claim as your own. There's no actual creativity involved in using the pen tool. Just because it may be time consuming doesn't actually make it yours. Why not do more along the lines of the Wigglytuff?
     
    Yeah... not even the pictures I made look like the original stances. But Wigglytuff is nice, so make more like that.
     
    You traced that, and then you resized it, because that's what vectors are for. I don't understand who you're trying to kid. You didn't use it as a reference, you traced it down to the last detail.
     
    No, I never resized that vector. Fine, don't believe me I guess...seems to me that you're only criticizing instead of constructively criticizing. I'd appreciate it if you just didn't comment on my art since you have nothing nice or constructive to say.
     
    My constructive criticism: You could improve by drawing less plagiarism.
     
    There are like sixty-million images on Deviantart, and a huge number of them contain unoriginal content. They aren't going to police anyone unless another member cries art-theft. Nintendo, however, does not have a DeviantArt account, and I highly doubt they give two [happy words :D] about someone using one of their pictures. I'm just saying that in an artistic context, what you're doing is not art. It's just a pointless chore.
     
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    Yeah um, DeviantART is almost as bad admin wise as Maplestory. They rarely remove anything, if ever. So don't assume that just because it's on there that it is official.

    A wise man once said,
    Never assume anything. You'll likely assume wrong.
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    cool!

    I would like to say that if you did the wigglytuff without looking at something while doing it, thats awesome!
     
    It's merely a matter of you guys thinking of this in the context of actual drawing. The process of vectorizing something as a digital artform is completely different and constitutes itself as original art, as it brings the original into a different style. And regardless of references, the entire creation is an original process done by the artist and is therefore not art theft. If Nintendo DID have a dA account and they saw my stuff on there, they would not say anything at all.

    For example, here's the original Luxray.

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    Notice the more subtle shading and the thinner outlines make it look more like a natural drawing. In mine the shading stands out more because I used more solid lines and shapes, as is the vector style. I also used much thicker outlines to give it more of a vector-cartoon feel to it.

    I had no problem posting these on several graphics forums without getting such useless and baseless comments about art theft (which is most certainly is not theft in any way whatsoever, except maybe me not crediting Nintendo/GF for the actual design of the pokemon itself, I just assumed everyone here knew that). That's probably because on graphics forums people understand the process of vectoring and the ideas behind digital art, and they see that as a separate art from from drawing on a piece of paper. DeviantART sees it like that too. I have plenty of people who favorite my work who are real artists with pen/paper who don't consider it thievery.

    Now, again, stop commenting on my work. You don't like them. Fine. Just don't make crazy accusations and rude comments. Leave. It. Be.
     
    I like them all. They are very nicely done. Good job on them.

    Do you have any more or are you currently work on some?
     
    I do not agree with the way Allstories initially reacted to your artwork, but he does have a point.

    However, it's alright to trace pics when you are practicing. Myself and many of my artist friends practiced by taking poses and applying it to their own artwork. However, however, it is not alright to post them publicly and claim them as your original art.

    But what is done is done, so all I have to say is this:
    It's fine to trace when you're practicing, it really is. But as soon as you start getting confidence, start creating your own poses! These are perfectly fine to post up in a public place. The reason tracing is looked down upon is because it makes the tracer look amateur. So as long as you keep your own traced practice drawings to yourself, then nobody will bother you.
     
    These are actually pretty good, despite being JPG. (The PNG applies to Sugimori art, too).
     
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