[Showcase] Ravenide's Artworks

[Ravenide]

Hi there! I make Pokemon Trainers in the XY and ORAS style. I hope you guys can check them out and let me know what you think. Currently, I've only seen 2-4 people doing this sort of thing all around the internet. Of course, I have other digital art styles, but I'm choosing to show off my XY and ORAS trainers for now. :)

The spoiler tag has ALL my trainer art so far since I started experimenting with Pokemon Master Grey. As the list goes down, the art becomes more and more recent. I think I've been doing this thing for... 5 months now?

Spoiler:

Pokemon Master Grey

Pokemon Master Kassie

Pokemon Master Keith

Pokemon Master Leena

Pokemon Master Manjean

Pokemon Breeder Reesa

Pokemon Mystic Circe

Commander Charon

Pokemon Trainer Valzion

Pokemon Trainer Olivia

Pokemon Trainer Miranda

Pokemon Trainer Darius

Pokemon Trainer Ramona

Pokemon Trainer Val

Pokemon Trainer Puck

Magma Leader Aillin

Aqua Leader Nerissa

Human Snag Machine Robin

Pokemon Trainer Hanako

Pokemon Trainer Nami

Minecraft Player Ravenzyre

Pokemon Trainer Fay

Pokemon Trainer Jade

Pokemon Trainer Althea

Pokemon Trainer Magnolia

Pokemon Trainer Kips

Pokemon Trainer Valski

Pokemon Trainer Luke

Pokemon Professor Rosewood

Pokemon Performer Serena

Pokemon Trainer Licia

Pokemon Trainer Luna

Pokemon Trainer Noxte

Pokemon Trainer Lillian

Pokemon Trainer Omega

Pokemon Trainer Nick

Pokemon Trainer Chess

Pokemon Trainer Mattias

Pokemon Trainer Xion

Pokemon Coordinator Ren

Gym Leader Octavia

Pokemon Trainer Axel

Pokemon Trainer Azure

Pokemon Trainer Nbay

Pokemon Ranger Niz

Pokemon Trainer Mars

Pokemon Trainer Smugleaf

Magma Leader Tomiko

Pokemon Trainer Wade

Pokemon Trainer Reena

Pokemon Coordinator May

Gym Leader Misty

Pokemon Trainer Sohrob

Pokemon Trainer Dustin

PokeKellz

Pokemon Trainer Sravz

Pokemon Trainer Bridget

Pokemon Trainer Riviere

Pokemon Trainer Tatsu

Pokemon "Master" Ash

Pokemon Trainer Titus

Pokemon Coordinator Dawn

Pokemon Trainer Alain​

Did you make it through? Haha! How's the art?

 

[kingdenas]

OMG, they are awesome!!!! You surely have talent to this!
I'm horrible doing that kind of stuff but I really appreciate seeing it!
Good Job!

 

[Kotone]

your artwork is perfect! they really do look like real life trainers ^_^ do you take commissions? anyways, i love the artwork. i would just be careful when adding a drop shadow because you don't want to make it too heavy to make the art look pixely and blurry. keep posting!

 

[Fairy]

Saw some of these on your DA page. Man, this is awesome. Some of the best custom, Sugimori style trainer busts I've seen in a while. Keep up the awesome work. o/

 

[Nina]

These are pretty good! You've got such a large collection under your belt!
(but friend it's not 2-4 there are 100s of people who draw things in sugimori style)

You said as the list goes down it's more recent? Is it not in reverse?

I say that because the majority of ones I find the strongest come from the first ones posted. If those are your older ones, you might want to take a reflection back to them and see what makes them the most successful.

These are the ones I feel are stronger.

These are the ones I feel are weaker.

See the difference?
But yea, if you actually meant the top most were most recent, congrats on your progression! It's getting great and you're really capturing the sugimori charm! If the bottom ones ARE your most recent... Some are really not as successful! I'll explain more in depth if you clear up the ordering for me.

 

[Anastasia.R]

These are pretty neat!

I'd love to see something free drawn from you, though. I guess that's just my curiosity kicking in. I'd say a lot of the characters have really neat fashion sense and design - I would just be careful with your shading techniques if you're trying to go for a Ken Sugimori style. I think most of your work look like Yusuke Ohmura though (I talked a little bit about his style in one of the spoiler tags below!) - but it's still looking like official Pokemon artwork.

I agree with Lornami on the comparison of your strongest and weakest works. The strongest pieces are blended well together and have some better brush strokes that aren't as harsh as the weaker pieces. I also can't tell if you meant the order was from oldest to recent or the other way around? I checked your DA gallery and it seems like yes the top is the oldest work. Anyway, I waned to talk about some of the recent pieces then!

For example

It's not bad, but the shading could have been tackled a little differently.
First; gotta expand the hue range

Wether you're going for Yusuke or Sugimori style: they have some variety of hues and values.
Comparing that to your first piece:

You get slightly different hues AND values.

So, I compared the hair value and hues to Ken and Yusuke so you can check out the difference (and you can see how they shade)

Spoiler:

I think you're illustrating more of Yusuke Ohmura's style - or a mix of Sugimori and Yusuke, ahaha. Not bad, but just interesting the shading coloring and some of the shaping of the shades make it resemble Yusuke's style more (and he did a lot of character artwork for XY and ORAS). Yusuke's art is a little cleaner and more saturated when I compare the artwork together.

So you get an idea of their styles! I took one of your recent works and made some notes.

Spoiler:

Pretty much what I'm saying in my pile of messy writing is:

• Try different hue ranges
• Try less harsh shading
• Leave subtle hints of light
• Play around not only with huse but with your value range!

BUT I GUESS EITHER STYLE YOU'RE GOING FOR: it's close to "official" looking artwork. ouo Just keep note of your values, different hues, and try maybe a softer brush when shading? I hope i was somewhat helpful!​

 

[Ravenide]

Hey guys. Sorry for the late reply, I just got back from a seven day trip from Japan. (It was hot)

Kingdenas - Hey! Thank you for the kind words!

xxkaylabby - I've actually been doing commissions on dA for 800 points / $5 each. Yeah, I only recently deciden on a shadow radius of 3.0. In the older sprites, it was just a random gaussian blur. xD

Fairy - Hi! Thank you so much for the compliment! I've actually seen your dA page as well and I'm blown away!

Lornami - Hey! Your name is familiar. Haha! Anyway, I didn't mean that there were only 2-4 artists doing sugimori style, I meant doing the... XY/ORAS trainer sprite things. They're TECHNICALLY cropped sugimori style trainers, so you do have a point. I believe the whole reason why the older sprites blend with the style much more is that I basically fused existing sprites without drawing much stuff from scratch. (You can tell Pokemon Master Grey is basically an ace trainer haha) I shall practice more!

Bacteriophage - Haha, I'm far from being good enough to give advice! Anatomy is and will always be a pain in the butt. I use Photoshop. :)

Anastasia - DAAAAMN! I have never gotten such an in-depth critique such as this! First of all, thank you so much for taking the time to write this out! This is the first time I've actually noticed how much different hues affect shading, so thank you! It's an eye-opener and I hope I can do it on future works! This is the kind of stuff I wanted them to teach me in art school, but alas, we had "general" art things instead. Thanks so much, I will put all your advice on a sticky note! :D

 

[Fotomac]

Wow, they look almost like they could come from a game!