Startin’ My Artin’

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It’s Back! The September 2019 Fakeathon has arrived!

For as long as there have been people, we have told stories about strange creatures with mysterious powers, unnatural shapes, and peculiar intelligence. Mythological creatures were Pokémon before Pokémon existed, so it makes sense that many canon species draw from myths. Whether it be Japanese Yokai, monsters of ancient Greece or the fae spirits of Celtic folklore, the realms of myth and legend make for a fertile ground of ideas!

This prompt theme draws heavily on my favorite Wikipedia article, List of Legendary Creatures. Each creature has a link to its own article so that you can read up on is backstory and get inspired. As usual, you do not need to follow these prompts exactly and are in fact encouraged to exercise your creativity in interpreting them into Fakemon.

Q. What is a Fakeathon?

A Fakeathon is a month-long fakemon challenge, where the goal is to design 30 fake Pokemon in 30 days. Any art style is fine, be it traditional, digital, pixel, 3D art, whatever! 

Q. Are there any requirements to participate?

Nope! Anybody can join in a Fakeathon. The point is to challenge yourself and get some new ideas and fakemon concepts out into the world. You don’t need to do all 30 prompts, nor do you need to do them in order. You also don’t need to interpret the prompts literally under the theme. This is not a contest but a self-imposed challenge.

You are encouraged to share your creations on Social Media (Twitter, Tumblr, Deviantart, Instagram etc.) using the tags #Fakeathon and #FakemonChallenge to spread the word and share your fakemon ideas with the world!

The Prompts

Day 1. Dragon

Day 2. Faun

Day 3. Selkie

Day 4. Harpy

Day 5. Chimera

Day 6. Mothman

Day 7. Tanuki

Day 8. Quetzalcoatl

Day 9. Cyclops

Day 10. Anansi

Day 11. Kamaitachi

Day 12. Djinn

Day 13. Minotaur

Day 14. Bunyip

Day 15. Angel

Day 16. Bake-Kujira 

Day 17. Phoenix

Day 18. Undine

Day 19. Moon Rabbit

Day 20. Coyote

Day 21. Basilisk

Day 22. Bigfoot

Day 23. Golem

Day 24. Peryton

Day 25. Anubis

Day 26. Kraken

Day 27. Chupacabra

Day 28. Legendary #1

Day 29. Legendary #2

My process usually goes something like:

1. The Big Idea/ brainstorming (sometimes I jot down notes or make a mind map). If you plan to make something BIG like a webcomic or a graphic novel, definitely write down your ideas!

2. Small thumbnails! Make sketches of your page that are maybe one to two inches tall. The idea here is to block out composition/bubbles/focal point etc, and you can’t focus too much on details because it’s so small. I made these so I can print them and quickly sketch inside them. Feel free to print/download these yourself for future comics! (*Note- these are designed for A5 size)

3. Make notes on your thumbnails, feel free to get messy and totally rearrange panels or layouts. Redo a thumbnail if it doesn’t feel right and make note of which page it is.

4. I bring my thumbnails into a drawing program like Photoshop or Clip Studio. You’re free to use whatever drawing program you have, Or, if you work traditionally, prepare your paper!

5. Using the thumbnails as a guide, I draw in the characters, bgs, details, etc. with a light color. If you’re using paper, they have special blue and red pencils designed just for sketching. I don’t suggest jumping right into inking from your thumbnails unless you have a very simple style– think of this step as a clean up sketch

6. Speech / text – if your comic has any narration or dialogue or sound fx, be sure to allow space for it in your panels! Even if you plan to do handwriting, I like to type any dialogue out and arrange the text ahead of time so I can make my drawings around it and give it the space it needs to be legible and not compete with the drawings for attention.

7. NOW we ink! Using your clean up sketch as a guide, make your lines. If you’re planning to color, that goes next. And then you can add any special effects you want on top!

Here’s a gif process of a page I did a while ago!

being fabulous obviously 💅

I’ve done a few reformation concepts for her but I’m unsure on whether her style should be east asian, middle eastern or slightly more european

This animation took so long to do, and all because my computer wanted to crash ninety times while I was animating.

studies about Lapis and Peri’s fusions body shapes, Peri’s basically have half of her head shape and thick feet, Lapis body shape is more…basic, so her fusions have more harmonious bodies, malachite has a normal skinny and muscular body from lapis and jasper, if u dont count the giant 4 arm-legs