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A week ago, I'd stumbled upon the first look at the protagonists of "Pokémon: Black & White 2". Fond of this gal's astonishingly cute design, and on a bit of a drawing kick at the time, I went ahead and drew her. While many of you liked it, I thought the piece came out awful. I actually pretty well offended myself, and then a I swore I'd redo it. Not necessarily to show my love for the character (although, I really do rather like her) but to defend my honor.

How'd I do? I think this is infinitely better personally. I'm happy with it this time, if I do say so myself. There's something to be said about effort. ^_^

The other piece used my "comic style", so named because that's how I tend to draw my comics (namely Rain). Although, some might argue, it's appropriate for comics, because the style's simplicity allows me to draw quickly without getting stopped up. My mistake was drawing last week's piece after spending all week doing nothing BUT drawing like that.

See, my "professional style" (I guess you could say) is a lot cleaner and easier on the eyes, but it takes a lot longer and I'd have probably sworn off comics forever if I had to draw it like this all the time. Hence, why I only really ever use it for one-shots like this (or Shangri-La, which has pretty limited artistic need).

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Notes on the piece itself: besides cleaner lines and shading (god, it's been a long time since I last shaded; go easy on me), I think the pose is more fitting. Certainly more cute and childlike. I still wanna pinch her cheeks.

And I drew her bag this time. I left it out of the first drawing because I couldn't get a good reference for it, due to the angle of the original artwork. For this piece though, I referenced mostly other fanarts (of which there are MANY). The bag never really looks the same, but this seems to be the most common look.

Also, the background, is inspired by a screenshot I saw of what I can only guess is the "Are you a boy or a girl?" screen. If I went all out, you'd see the boy trainer to the left of her with a weird checkerboard arrow pointing the opposite direction (except I don't like the boy trainer, so why should I draw him ) Anyway, still greatly amused by her transgender flag color scheme ([link] ), it seemed as good an idea as any for the background (especially better than the boring color explosion of the first one I did).

Also, I am full aware that the original design for the character has her in shorts. You really don't need to tell me. I opted to draw a skirt because I think it's cuter. It's called artistic license. ^_^

If you'd like to see the original drawing I did for some reason, here you go - [link]

Description
A week ago, I'd stumbled upon the first look at the protagonists of "Pokémon: Black & White 2". Fond of this gal's astonishingly cute design, and on a bit of a drawing kick at the time, I went ahead and drew her. While many of you liked it, I thought the piece came out awful. I actually pretty well offended myself, and then a I swore I'd redo it. Not necessarily to show my love for the character (although, I really do rather like her) but to defend my honor.

How'd I do? I think this is infinitely better personally. I'm happy with it this time, if I do say so myself. There's something to be said about effort. ^_^

The other piece used my "comic style", so named because that's how I tend to draw my comics (namely Rain). Although, some might argue, it's appropriate for comics, because the style's simplicity allows me to draw quickly without getting stopped up. My mistake was drawing last week's piece after spending all week doing nothing BUT drawing like that.

See, my "professional style" (I guess you could say) is a lot cleaner and easier on the eyes, but it takes a lot longer and I'd have probably sworn off comics forever if I had to draw it like this all the time. Hence, why I only really ever use it for one-shots like this (or Shangri-La, which has pretty limited artistic need).

***

Notes on the piece itself: besides cleaner lines and shading (god, it's been a long time since I last shaded; go easy on me), I think the pose is more fitting. Certainly more cute and childlike. I still wanna pinch her cheeks.

And I drew her bag this time. I left it out of the first drawing because I couldn't get a good reference for it, due to the angle of the original artwork. For this piece though, I referenced mostly other fanarts (of which there are MANY). The bag never really looks the same, but this seems to be the most common look.

Also, the background, is inspired by a screenshot I saw of what I can only guess is the "Are you a boy or a girl?" screen. If I went all out, you'd see the boy trainer to the left of her with a weird checkerboard arrow pointing the opposite direction (except I don't like the boy trainer, so why should I draw him ) Anyway, still greatly amused by her transgender flag color scheme ([link] ), it seemed as good an idea as any for the background (especially better than the boring color explosion of the first one I did).

Also, I am full aware that the original design for the character has her in shorts. You really don't need to tell me. I opted to draw a skirt because I think it's cuter. It's called artistic license. ^_^

If you'd like to see the original drawing I did for some reason, here you go - [link]