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Shellder

Posted on August 10, 2019 Leave a Comment

Well, when in doubt for what to draw, turn to Pokémon. But which Pokémon?

Well, I remembered when the Pokéfusion site was going around again a while ago and everyone was posting the fusion that they would get from first random loading.

Well, I back then, I loaded up the site to find my assigned Pokéfusion and get….

So when I was stuck for what to draw today, Shellder seemed as good a choice as any. This little guy is actually a bit tricky to draw in ways I hadn’t expected, but lookit it, so cute!

Posted in: Digital | Tagged: blaugust, pokefusion, pokemon, shellder

Jangmo-o

Posted on September 7, 2016 Leave a Comment

jangmo-o

I drew the cute new Dragon Pokémon that was teased today. Drawn in FireAlpaca. Need to work on getting my line-weights consistent.

Posted in: Digital | Tagged: dragon pokemon, jangmo-o, jungmo-o, pokemon, pokemon sumo, sun & moon

Alola, Starters!

Posted on August 26, 2016 Leave a Comment

Today’s second post is a painting of the starting Pokémon from Sun/Moon’s new Alola Region. I painted this one shortly after the starters were announced.

alolastarters

Posted in: Watercolours | Tagged: alola, blaugust, litten, pokemon, popplio, rowlet, watercolor, watercolour

Enveloping

Posted on August 8, 2016 Leave a Comment

Okay I had a nice weekend sans-Blaugust posts, and I’m still undecided about whether I’ll be making catchup posts.

In the meantime, I better get back to posting before I lose all motivation! I mentioned last week that I opened an Etsy store. Well one of the fun parts of having an Etsy store is sending out letters. Scribbling a thing on each letter I’ve sent out has been a good little exercise. However I’ve found it pretty nerve-wracking as I haven’t planned the drawings at all.

For first envelope, I decided to utilise the top right area for Zapdos’ head. Then I realised that’s where the stamps needed to go. So I rewrote the address upside down and put the stamps in the new “top right” of the envelope.

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Lesson learned. I avoided that mistake with the following envelopes.

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For the legendary trio I ried for a cute little design, I don’t think the brush pen was the best choice to convey such small little figures.

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I drew this Moltres envelope while waiting for lunch. The biro was much less scary to work with. I don’t normally do shading/hatching like this but I think it worked out okay.

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Posted in: Line Drawings | Tagged: articuno, blaugust, envelope, letter, moltres, pokemon, pokemon go, zapdos

Pokémon Badges: Johto

Posted on August 17, 2015 Leave a Comment

Johto bages photo

I’ve made a few badges from Pokémon before. My Hoenn badges were 3D printed on Shapeways out of full-colour sandstone.

My Unova badges were also printed on Shapeways, but that was only the bases. The colouring and finishing touches were done by hand. I used acrylic and watercolour paints as well as liquid sculpey to create the glassy look in those badges.

Now that I have a laser cutter I can make the flat badges (Johto, Sinnoh and Unova) from laser-etched wood. I paint them and fill them with a gloss varnish to create the glossy effect. The watercolour paint bleeds into the varnish slightly, which can add to that enameled look in some cases and can be a hindrance in others. In addition to the paints bleeding, I also found that the burnt wood residues seep colour into the varnish! Compare the top set of badges with the set below. The varnish has done an excellent job of deepening the colours and making them stand out… but you can also see a yellowing that comes from the MDF. It’s most noticable in the Zephyr badge but the blue badges also suffer pretty badly.

I’ll be working to fix these issues but I think that overall these badges are working out nicely. One day I’ll finish the 3D models I’ve made of the Kalos badges…

 

P.S. you’ve probably noticed that I’ve been playing around with the look of the Hive badge. While the rest of the Johto badges had that uniform look, Bugsy for some reason decided to have a black-rimmed badge. Perhaps in a limited palette the concept of the ladybird didn’t translate well with a silver rim. Regardless, I decided I’d have no such inconsistency in my set. The Rising badge gets a little bit of red in its borders but I guess that’s the privileges you get when you train dragons. No way am I letting a kid bug trainer get away with nonsense like a differently coloured badge!

Posted in: Lasering | Tagged: badges, blaugust, gym leaders, hand made, johto, lasercut, made by me, pokemon

Prototype Aerodactyl Model Kit

Posted on August 16, 2015 Leave a Comment

aerodactylphoto

Remember those awesome dinosaur model kits from when you were a kid? I’m working on a Viridian Pewter City Museum collection – Pokémon model dinosaur kits! This is the first, Aerodactyl.

I model the design in Blender first.

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After making the 3D model out of flat planes, I mark out areas where the parts intersect. The model is then exported into a 2D file, using this excellent Paper Model Export script which allows me to set the scale of the complete model. After export, a number of things must be done to make each piece ready for cutting. The tail piece is shown as an example below.

Each point of interconnect initially gets exported as a normal “cut” line. This must be expanded into a 3mm wide line, and then the length of the line must be extended past the outline of the piece. Then the width of these lines is removed from the area of the piece.

 

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Each piece is laser cut and the whole model can be assembled by slotting the correct parts together!

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I need to make a lot of fixes to the design still but the overall concept works. Unfortunately the other Kanto fossils don’t really suit being made into model kits, but there are some good candidates throughout the series!

Posted in: Lasering | Tagged: aerodactyl, blaugust, lasercut, made by me, pokemon

Sandshrew, Breloom and Goodra

Posted on August 15, 2015 Leave a Comment

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I drew these guys while attending Adelaide’s Pokémon VGC event! Sandshrew was drawn as part of a Reddit collab where each artist would draw one Pokémon. You can check out the full album of art here!

 

 

breloom goodra

 

Posted in: Watercolours | Tagged: blaugust, breloom, goodra, made by me, pokemon, sandshrew, watercolour

Sparring Partners

Posted on August 13, 2015 2 Comments

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Lucario and Little Mac! I think this was meant to be a prep sketch for a larger piece, but I abandoned it for some reason. The file has many layers with Little Mac in a few different punching poses. This is one of the more energetic ones.

Posted in: Line Drawings | Tagged: blaugust, little mac, lucario, made by me, nintendo, pokemon, punch out, smash bros

Pikachu and Lucario

Posted on August 10, 2015 Leave a Comment

I almost forgot to post today but I’ll squeeze in a post and backdate by an hour. Since it’s late I can’t really think of much to say along with the art, so enjoy.

lucariopikachu

Posted in: Watercolours | Tagged: aura sphere, lucario, pikachu, pokemon, smash bros, watercolour

Not-Mega Monday

Posted on August 18, 2014 Leave a Comment

So I finally stopped procrastinating and started on more Megas for today’s post. And I drew a Mega Manectric I was pretty happy with.

And then I realised I’d made a rather large error.

Can you spot what it is?

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If you compare this with the WIP of Tyranitar from last week you’ll notice that I’ve not laid down both strips of tape in the middle of the paper. My awesome Manectric sketch is completely misplaced! Luckily I realised before inking. You can see here that I’ve started to transpose the sketch further to the right, starting with Manectric’s snout. But as for getting finished art up today, wel’p, I don’t think it’s happening.

Oh well, there’s always next week!

Posted in: Watercolours, WIP | Tagged: houndoom, manectric, mega evolution, pokemon, watercolour
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