Well, I thought I'd give it a go, too.

[The Rusted One]

Yeah, I'm jumping in on the realistic-pokémon thing happening around these parts and offering my own interpretations. They're not much, and they're not detailed to any high degree, nor are they coloured, but here they are anyway.

Feel free to leave a comment of any sort - I appreciate constructive criticism if you've got any.

[attachment deleted by admin]

[Razola]

Not bad at all...though I never knew you drew.

[StellarWind]

Hehe, Not bad....

Squirtle is a bit *too* sea-turtle like though - Granted, it is based on a turtle and is a water type, but it seems to have, in some degree, adapted to life on land. So it should be lightly anthropomorphic, in my opinion - while still keeping a sea turtle look (because the last thing we need is teenage mutant ninja squirtles. ;P)

Bulbasaur - I like. Catches the half-reptile-half-frog look rather nicely. I suppose it has a red eye with a white spot around it?

Charmander - Heh, cute little lizard. ^_^ I seem to think that the flame seems to stem from the tail rather than hovering ominously above it (after all, it serves a certain important biological function - for if the flame is doused, the Pokemon dies) and there's something about the head that i can't quite identify that just... seems odd to me.

Nice work, though, even for something which one might consider a sketch. ^_^

[Iveechan]

...

the realistic Pokemon thing isn't a fad -_-;. Oh yeah, the Charmander I like the best : D. I also love that kinda lithe look Bulbasaur has to it. The official one looks like it would have a hard time moving... I mean, it has low speed, but that body, yeesh. I agree with the Squirtle's seaturtlish-ness like Stellarwind... I made up a grass/water seaweed seaturtle meeself.

[The Rusted One]

Thanks for the comments, they're very much appreciated.

Raz - I've not ever posted anything in here, or any of my art anywhere, actually, but I draw all the time. I think people must get sick of me sending them images through AIM (sorry Iveechan...lol)

Stellarwind - most of my work is just sketching...I hate shading, and colour is something I tend to apply in my mind, rather than on the paper. I don't think I've got a piece that is anything more than a pencil line...

Anyway, for Squirtle that's the look I was going for - I was trying to move away from the creature-designed-by-man look and go for more of a how-a-creature-would-look-had-it-evolved-separately-from-man's-guiding-hand, if you understand. In this case Squirtle does have weird hindlegs that it could possible use to lumber around on if it leant on its forelimbs, though, so it may be able to move on land...sort of, lol.
And for Charmander's tail flame - same thing, except I sort of imagined that the flame would burn on a thin layer of alcohol or something flammable secreted by the skin, rather than the skin itself burning.

Iveechan - lol, I know it's not a fad, I meant that with Pet Keeper having gained a fair bit of attention, it seems a bit more in focus, but that's not to say that the practice hasn't existed for a while. And I think I like Squirtle the best.

Anyway, I did another page of first stages the other day as well. I'm especially pleased with Pidgey; and I changed Weedle's design so that the animé-nose was actually its head, and the animé-head is its first segment. Yeah.

[attachment deleted by admin]

[StellarWind]

Personally, I like Sketches as much as I liked colored pictures, so i don't mind the lack of color. And yeah, Shading can be a major female canine.

Wow, I'm impressed. You actually made Rattata look cool. Like an actual rodent, hehe. ^^

[Iveechan]

Heh, Pidgey didn't change much. I like the ratata, it has a prairie dog look to it rather than a common rat. I think it's the feet and the ears. As Stel just said on aim, you made ratata look cool. Weedle looks like he has tiny bad-guy eyes or something. I'd like to see Diglett next, out of the hole .

I don't mind the sending pics through aim, but maybe if they were shrunken more or if you cut and pasted them so the individual pics were closer to gether and there'd be less empty space. I'm big on empty space ^_^.

[The Rusted One]

Because I have lots and lots of free time. Could you guess?

Anyway, I've had some people saying that they're not very pokémon-ish (I've shown them to other people), and I just wanted to say that I was aiming for that more than not, because these pieces are supposed to represent what the pokémon would look like if they had evolved in our world and weren't all cutesy and simplified, and everything...yeah.

Well, here's Ivysaur. I got bored and glibbed on the leaves a bit, and the flower looks a little off to me, but I can't be bothered with fixing it right now.

[attachment deleted by admin]

[The Pet Keeper]

when i saw the picture, i thought something like "that's a really cool way of doing squirtle". Seams like mosty people don't agree with me about that ^_^;
it's not land-fitted at all like squirtle is, but i like the idea becuse it's unusual and your picture is very alive becuse of moment and details

The bulbasaur apeals alot to me, it has a very reptile look. but i would like the bumps on the head being ears instead, but that's just becuse i like the long ago extinct mamal-reptiles (maybe that's the wrong word in english), but that's a matter of taste. and i think making the things on bulbasaur head into bumps are acully more realistc.

the charmander is good, but i missing balance in it's body (or is it just the pose you decided to give it?). the flame on the tail feels weird too, but i would kept it too if i drawed a charmander.

pidgey looks pretty much the same but with more details,but there's not much to change on a pidgey becuse they already look alot like normal birds.

I like rattata alot, i really look like a real rodent. it reminds me alot of my gerbils

Oh, carterpie looks like a real, bloated larva (like larvas do), i can almost feel the soft, smouth skin
but there's some details, espailly the eyes on both carterpie and weedle, that makes them apper less insect. Nice idea to turn weedels nose into the mouth

yay, you gave ivysaur ears! not mamal ears thouth, but the frog ears fit the rest of your ivysaur very well. I looks very much frog or other amphibia

[The Rusted One]

I forgot to say last time that I'll do Diglett at some stage soon, Iveechan. And in general thanks for the comments.

Pet Keeper - thanks for the positive feedback about Squirtle, I'd have to say it's my favourite (if I do say so myself). I've done Wartortle in the same sort of way, so I hope you like that too.

[attachment deleted by admin]

[The Rusted One]

Well...I dunno, tell me what you think of Blastoise. Remember, I'm moving away from the animé-looking proportions, etc., and going for a more realistic look - so Blastoise isn't bipedal, nor is it tubby and stocky with pillar like legs; I mean, I fail to see how animé-Blastoise can swim...so I gave it features that would allow it to.

Yeah.

[attachment deleted by admin]

[StellarWind]

I don't understand how the anime Blastoise swims either, or why the hades does it have guns.

Your sea turtle look at the Squirtle line is rather interesting, although the Blastoise looks a bit odd - like its back legs are built for landwalking but its front legs/flippers aren't. I find something like that would impair both its walking AND swimming abilities. But that's just me.

[The Rusted One]

Hmm, it doesn't really spend a lot of time on land, in my mind, does Blastoise. I mean, most sea turtles don't; but Blastoise, due to the "guns" on the back (which I've drawn as large pores in the shell, rather than with metal barrels, etc.), wouldn't have to move much anyway. It could just lie on the ground, and fire. The sturdy hind legs would push its bulk along the ground when need be, so it may have better mobility on land than real turtles - but they wouldn't work to the detriment of swimming, as turtles don't use their hind flipper for anything but steering, like rudders. That way, large hind flippers wouldn't really have any bad effect, though perhaps they may produce some sort of drag.

Can you tell I like explanations? Thanks for the comment.

[Venasaur89]

Not bad, for a first one. I bet I can't even draw a bit like that....

[HedgeCat]

The sqirtle family looks good. I think Blastoise need some work, I can't really explain why.

The Charmander is my favourite, it look awesome.

I also like Ratatta. It looks like a real mouse, only more Pokémon-ish.

[Mew Trainer Rose]

I love the way you've dearwn these pokemon. especially the Charmander, and it's flame in particular. I liek the opinon that the fame is fueled by some sort of secretion on Charmander's tail.

Something someone once said got me thinking that the fluid is a waste product of Charmander's body, and it needs to be burnt off of the fuild will build up in it's system and Charmander would die. To prevent that, it is constantly secreted through pores in Charmander's tail, and is burnt off my the flame that's ignited shortly after birth by a parent or caretaker. So if teh flame goes out, it had to be re-ignited very, very quickly. aternately, if Charmander is getting sick, weak, or something else that would slow down it's bodily functions, less fuild is secreted, and the flame burns lower. if Charmander gets too weak or dies comepletely, no more fluid is secreted and the flame goes out for lack of fuel.

and there's my theory on the biology of a Charmander's flame. ^_^

[The Rusted One]

HedgeCat - I'm wondering whether it's the flippers, or rather, the right flipper. The perspective has screwed me up a little bit there, and the tip is a bit off, I think. Thanks for the comments.

And thanks Mew Trainer Rose, I'm glad my interpretation of Charmander's flame catches someone else's interest, lol.

Anyway, don't ask me why, but I drew Murkrow next. It doesn't resemble the animé one all that much, really, but I think that's because the animé-Murkrow is quite stylised and has certain features accentuated, while an ordinary crow...doesn't...lol. Anyway, here it is...

[attachment deleted by admin]

[StellarWind]

LOL, yeah, Murkrow's feathers were accented to give its head the illusion of a witch's hat and its tail was 'bound' with that string to create an illusion of a witch's broom.

In other words, it's technically supposed to be a Witch-raven. xD

Your interpertation of Murkrow is a LOT more birdlike, and even though those feather tufts on its head are a bit... odd, i suppose that's the closest you could get to the look of an actual crow. (nods) besides, they've evolved far away from humans, so they have no reason to try and imitate witches.

"So, logically, if she weighs the same as a duck... she's made of wood... and therefore... A WITCH!"

xD

[Phoenixsong]

Wow. Those are truly awesome sketches. I must say I'm with you- my sketches often turn out better than the actual pics, especially when I draw little thumbnail drawings of... whatever I'm drawing. Those normally end up turning into the pictures, lol. Anyway... I personally like the way you drew the Squirtle line as sea turtles instead of blue babies in turtle shells, the Bulbasaur/Ivysaur as reptilian/froggy things and not waddling Chia Pets and the Caterpie/Weedle as actual larva-looking things and not... things. I don't know what they look like in the official pics. Okay, so the official Caterpie isn't as pathetic as some other pokes, but still, yours is better. The Charmander's tail thing everyone's talking about... I didn't really notice that. Whoa. Then again, I'm brain dead today. Everyone else in the ninth grade (all six of them, just about) figured out some easy math problem in minutes and I took one look at the sheet, decided it was gibberish and gave up. The Rattata does look more like a real rodent, which is cool, and the Pidgey and Murkrow are also good, though I agree with Ivee's comment that Pidgey did look an awful lot like a real bird to begin with. Great work! Y'know, personally I'd like to see somebody's "realistic" take on the Totodile line or Sandslash... I'd do it myself, but my realistic pics are still cartoony, if you know what I mean. They're better than the official crap (and me admitting that is really saying something), but they're still... cartoony. Oh, well.
*looks at StellarWind's comment* Hey, Monty Python! Yay! Heheheh, Monty Python and the Holy Grail was a funny movie. Unbearably stupid, but funny.

[The Rusted One]

Thanks, Phoenixsong - and I'm glad someone else is a fan of my sea turtle-Squirtle line.

Anyway, I decided I might give the Totodile line a shot - I also thought it might be interesting.

Included are Totodile and Croconaw (I have Feraligatr on a different piece of paper, but it needs cleaning up and I can't be bothered right now); Totodile is a bit weird, as its forelimbs are longer and in a different posture from the usual crocodilian one, but I sort of wanted to give the impression of a semi-erect body plan. Totodile and its evolutions are bipedal, and I didn't want to do that, but having them just flat on the ground bored me and gave the impression of just a normal crocodile with a different name - so I changed both forms and made an inbetweener.

Anyway, leave comments and things.

[attachment deleted by admin]

[StellarWind]

Well, I definitely like the Croconaw. It's nifty looking. And doesn't look like a Flintstone, either. ;P

The Totodile looks like a dinosaur of some sort. Hn.

[Iveechan]

Hee hee! The Croconaw reminds me of my sister's iguana when she'd swim. Those arms, they're just so cute! Thank god you made that horrid line appealing looking (I just don't like the totodile line's design).

[The Rusted One]

Thanks for the comments you two, though to be honest, I'm a little uninspired about the way I drew Totodile. Perhaps its head is too small or something, I'm not sure; it just doesn't look right at as entire creature, though.

Oh well, hopefully this will make up for it, lol. It's Feraligatr, basking in the sun or something like that. Basically, it's asleep, or dozing, or has its eyes closed for whatever reason. I put more detail than usual in, though some parts are more detailed than others due to what I think the more striking features of it would be (meaning, basically, I haven't drawn in every, but have paid more attention to some areas of, scale).

[attachment deleted by admin]

[The Rusted One]

I got bored of studying this afternoon so I drew Rhyhorn, Spinarak and Ariados. I've made the two spiders more arachnoid rather than insectoid as they appear in both the games and the animé, and "shaded" (though it's more that I put grey in certain places) to indicate the patterns on their cepaholothoraces, abdomens and legs. Rhyhorn I made a little bit less like it dragged its belly on the ground, and as to whether the armour is armour or just looks like it (as in the Indian Rhino) I haven't really indicated properly.

[attachment deleted by admin]

[StellarWind]

Ooo. I like those Spinarak/Ariados! And lo, they are spiderlike and don't look like ants on steroids! ^_^

Rhydon's freaky lookin', but it always was. xD