Gotta Draw 'Em All

[kebiro]

So I’ve decided on a personal challenge in order to improve my drawing/Gimp skills: drawing the first 151 Pokemon (up to Mew).
No idea how long this will take me (maybe a year or so), but I plan on finishing this. I’ll probably end up using only a small subset of the tools and techniques introduced in this course, but that’s fine.

Pokemon drawn: 013 / 151

Tools: Gimp, mouse, and a cheap stylus (mainly for sketching, especially round things)

Rules:

• Pokemon have to be drawn in order (001 -> 002 -> 003 -> …)
• Pose is free to choose

Edit: got rid of the time constraint… felt like that does more harm than good.

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#001: Bulbasaur

Difficulty: medium
Time: roughly 1 hour and 15 minutes

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#002: Ivysaur

Difficulty: hard
Time: little less than 2h

Although they’re so similar, this one was significantly harder than Bulbasaur imo

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#003: Venusaur

Difficulty: hard
Time: little more than 2h, wasn’t quite focused though … not too satisfied either, but it’ll take a pass

I’ll keep going like this for a while, but I’ll have to revisit some lectures and do some further studies to improve eventually.

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#004: Charmander

Difficulty: medium
Time: didn’t pay attention, but I’m guessing 1.5-2h
Other: made a lot of use of the stylus in this one … shadowing sucks, but had a much better workflow this time (less layers)

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#005: Charmeleon

Pixel art

Larger

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#006: Charizard

I nailed this one pretty good, if I may say so myself. Took my sweet time for this one. Shadowing improved (like the wings a lot), but still needs work.

Very happy with the result.

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#007: Squirtle

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#008: Wartortle

Did the shadowing with hue-shifting. I think the result is much better than just using airbrush+gray color+layer mode: multiplication.

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#009: Blastoise

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#010: Caterpie

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#011: Metapod

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#012: Butterfree

The brush tool is killing me… I don’t know how to handle those white dots that are caused by it. Removing them manually is such a pain in the a**.

Also, Butterfree was a lot more work than I expected.

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#013: Weedle

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#014: Kakuna

[Kevin_teeDee]

Sounds like a really cool idea, I might just go and do something similar haha. Are you posting them in order you drew them?

[kebiro]

@Kevin_teeDee
Have a go, haha. I have to say though, 151 is pretty daunting… definitely going to take me more than a year

And yes, I’m posting them in the order I draw them.

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#015: Beedrill

Was fairly lazy with this one, still not too bad of a result.

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#016 Pidgey

I back.

It’s quite sketchy, but given the amount of time I’ve been absent I’ll settle for such a style for the time being. I don’t care if it takes me 10 years, I’ll finish this.

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#017 Pidgeotto

Ok, I figured out why there were so many white dots left before. The reason is that I draw them at 512x512px, but then create 256x256 images without interpolation (left). When I use cubic interpolation (BIMP) the result looks better (right).