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Published: 2014-02-07 11:32:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 22239; Favourites: 806; Downloads: 161
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Commission request by ReyIvory
His pokemon trainer character battling with scizzor against a friend with a shiny greninja in Victory Road.
ReyIvory's DA page: reyivory.deviantart.com/
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Comments: 24
This composition of this piece is fricken awesome! Really inspiring. Not to mention two of my favorite Pokes!
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All your work is amazing! I feel like I can spend hours sitting here, looking and favouriting your pictures *Sigh*
If only I could draw like that, both people and pokemon. Amazing work!
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How much do you typically charge for something of this level of detail?
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Ooooh, cool shiny Greninja! I'm rooting for him and his trainer.
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cool stuff. perspective is a bit weird in this one
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I think it's awesome how unique you can make your own character look like in X and Y. I mean, I didn't have a problem with the earlier games about the issue, but this... Whoa. Just whoa.
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It looks very cool but one thing in the text i don't want to be annoying but its Scizor not with 2 zs
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I love Shiny Greninja AND Non-Shiny Scizor 
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Not as well polished as pretty much any of your other pieces.
Scizor's left claw, right from our view, looks flattened instead of reaching toward the viewer. Its legs and shoulders also look awkwardly twisted, and overall Scizor looks unsure what it wants to do next, rather than dynamic and ready for battle.
Greninja's pose is a lot more ambitious than Scizor's, so kudos for that, but again, arms look flat, especially that left arm (right from our perspective) where the elbow has no detail indicating the joint there, and only a small amount of shading on the forearm even hints that the arm is three-dimensional, even though the real Greninja has really bulbous joint protrusions. Its right leg looks somehow like it isn't really bent??? Also that awk bit of chest flab. I get that you wanted to show a torso twist, but it kinda stands out after a bit.
The awkward positioning and largeness of shine in the trainers' eyes also make both trainers look like Youngsters fresh out of the academy, rather than seasoned 8-badge veterans duking it out. In particular, the yellow-jacket trainer looks slightly cross-eyed.
I dunno why I feel so strongly about this one. Unsolicited critique is unsolicited, but you normally nail perspective so it felt a bit lacking. Maybe you were going more for a fisheye lens effect, which would explain some of the flattening, but it's not done exaggeratedly enough to really have that feeling...
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I just took the trainers' look as meaning to look as they probably do in-game. He did mention in the caption that they are the RL people's "pokemon trainer characters." I think everyone in-game looks childish. So these two boys are drawn as they would appear in the game.
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