How to Draw in the Pokemon Style
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- It's funny how people can always tell when a Pokemon Design isn't official. In this video, I discuss the different components of the style used by the artist who designs Pokemon, and how to replicated that style in your own artwork.
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Imagine a void, imagine a void.
*splashes the paper with black*
Would there even be a "black" in a void?
@@nargarex2390 Is it? Or is it just what we feeble-minded humans are capable of imagining?
@@nargarex2390 No, what I mean is that human minds, human brains, is not able to truly know two things, that being nothingness and infinity, true void is not black, nor is it white, it is "nothing", now here's a challenge, try to think entirely of nothing, of course, I mean to the subconscious too, so don't do it too long or you'll think of nothing for the rest of your life
@@nargarex2390 Realistically there's a Shrimp that's is capable of seeing hundreds more color spectrums than we can. So with that knowledge for all we know black IS NOT what space looks like. A Black Hole might be a Symphony of Energized colors dancing and twisting from all it's consumed. We don't know 95% of our own ocean. Why would we really know this.
@KvAT kek
Primal Dialga is actually a mistranslation. Or rather, it was just what they decided to translate it as (probably pecause it sounds cool and fits) because at the time it came out Primal Reversion wasn't a thing. Then Primal appeared a few years later and everyone got confused. In the japanese versions it's simply called Dark Dialga.
Or the mind being in a primal state, rather than the body
yoo thanks yall i was tryna get the concept!
@ nayh, the english version isnt canon. thats why you dont change what its originally suppose to be.
Still looks cool
@@Hakaishi00 do not take offense, but you sound like a sub-purist
that’s a pretty brave pronunciation of “palkia”
Ricky Rickster PAUL KEY UHHH
Ikea
@@pikadab1023 yeah he says it kinda like that🤣
Like How I say AAAAAH KEY US ( Arceus )
@@pikadab1023 lol good comparison.
how do we know you are'nt Ken Sugimori himself and you're secretly telling us that we're finally getting generation 4 remakes?
*I'm on to you.*
robomonkey42 I wish this was true
PLEASE
That would make my year
that would be for me the only reason to me to buy a switch
What a coincidence
That looks so official ☆_☆ I hope they ask you if they can use it for reference
Lol thank you! That would be awesome
I bet you are a #BringBackNationalDex person aren’t ya’?
I get what you mean but I’m pretty sure that they’re making gen 4 remakes after sword and shield so maybe primal palkia and dialga are a thing. I mean the fans really love ORAS. So maybe it’s a possibility, he might even (most likely not but maybe) be put on a artist team for the next game
Sigh
no
My only criticism is that if you look at ghastly, you can see how Ken draws smoke. I think if you made it look more like that it would look just a bit more believable.
I did, and it seems like this is a good imitation of it.
ben creighton, I mean more of the coloring then the shape itself. It’s just a little nit pick I have.
James Brooke
The coloring is meant to represent space. You can see the stars and color gradient. It's not meant to be plain old smoke.... Your criticism is misplaced in my opinion.
@@TheEchelon But space is exactly that, just a ton of asteroid dust floating around picking up light from the nearest star and reflecting those light to the observers. Smoke is the same, just a bunch of suspended particulate solids hovering in the air
@@TheEchelon tbf, i understand james. The "wings" do look "odd" and not something a usual pokemon would have. Usually with a simple pen you can draw every deal of a pokemon quite fine. The only outlier for this would be cosmog, wich also has some kind of universe in its "smoke". Even then, the contrast between a star and the rest have to be way more distinct IMO. Just go and compare those 2.
also i dont like the kind of mask/helmet he gave him. but thats just my taste.
Subjectively: Puts heavy thoughts into the design of primal Palkia
Legends Arceus: Horse.
In concept, the canon design is cool, but the execution?
Eh..
“My favorite legendary pokemon”
“Paul Kia”🤣🤣🤣
Nick Boon either pal-kia or paul-kia works, i say both
It’s PAl-kia with focus on the first a
Nick Boon that’s the official pronunciation
Had a nightmare of Paul catching Dialga in Master ball and saying "Legendary or not - I catch Pokemon of any scale I see"
PalkIa because Paul is pronounced as P-O-L
I got into Pokemon from my grandfather when I was little
He was a huge nerd like me about Pokemon
I want to meet that man
Similar story only it was from my dad
I think thats time traveler me lol
What got him into Pokémon? He certainly couldn't have been a kid in the late 90s.
Austin Waller he *could* have been an older teenager though, although it's hard
Your skill is very clear, absolutely loved this!! But now I just desperately wanna see you do a true primal dialga!
This comment needs to be seen, I totally agree!
Yes please thank you
Primal dialga is known as dark palkia in Japan
Primal Palkia resides in the Void accessible from Sinnoh via the tweaking glitch in Diamond and Pearl.
This comment is sending me
Mar's Bananana Shenanigans big brain
But.... “10 year old escapes reality using bike to ride into nothingness and fight anti matter god”
Being the best drawer isn't being able to draw something realistic.
Being the best drawer is being able to open easily, store a lot of things, and hopefully never break.
Yo what if you turned Nintendo characters into Pokémon? I’d love to see bowser, K. Rool and Mario as pokemon, you could probably use elements from the official character but change stuff around so it looks more like a real new gen Pokémon and less like just a sugumori style drawing of the character, like instead of just having Mario in sugimori style you could use elements from his design and turn him into a rabbit like Pokémon (because jump man) with hair plumes resembling his hat and overalls, eh just throwing ideas out, what do you think?
That's a really interesting idea! We'll put that on our list!
Bowser - I forgot its name, but one of the new mons
K rool - treecko
Mario - probopass
@@Axoleah yep
I think Lucario would be pretty interesting as a Pokemon
@@joshuab3918
yOu FoOl, He'S aLrEaDy OnE!1!1!!111!
So awesome to see the process of creating a Pokémon condensed, but more importantly, respected and explained! I hope more people see this and take it into consideration!
I'd love to know the brushes/brush settings that were used here, particularly for the values and linework!
Sameee
@@AnoobisBlack especially the size of the brush they use
Im still waiting
@@indrawibawa6353 me to
Me three
I'm trying to replicate Sugimori's linework for ages, through Procreate: Might I ask what settings did you use for the line brush? I'm pretty sure it's from the default sketch ones but I need to know if there's some personal adjustments.
Another common thing from Sugimori is that he uses hidden textures inside the Pokémon, and one interesting one at that is Charizard. If you zoom into its wings, it has leaf texture brushes. Sort of like a faint stain, but this varies A LOT on all Pokémon drawn by him (characters and everything he has done too.) Some are just ink splatters, others are dry brush lines, etc.
Heya, I’m currently working on a fan game and always liked to draw Pokémon and stuff but I have a really specific style. They look like Pokémon but I don’t know what brushes to use, may you help me? I’m using procreate aswell
typically you can use any brush that has a taper ie syrup, studio pen, and script and then add a texture by messing with the settings for shading use any paint brush that looks good , and the biggest thing is to experiment and see what works
@@akaboonie does the wash brush work for shading?
Dang, primal Palkia would be pretty cool. Very nice design.
this video - :D
the way you pronounce palkia - D:
It literally sounds like pal ikea
@@puttekulan6475 how do you pronounce it then??
Its sounds like polkeea
I'm so happy you did this video, I have always loved certain artist artstyles and I never knew how to look at it in a way to identify why I liked it so much. You showing how Ken does his art and explaining how they make it distinct really helped me know how to identify why I like his art so much!
I really like this design! The body and wings are smooth and in circles, and I like you you added those sharp edges in the face tail and feet. It adds angularity to the design.
holy shit. i've drawn pokemon for almost as long as i can pick up a pencil and i could never have drawn anything as beautiful as that.
don't think i need to say it but good job.
That is a beautiful design. I'm glad I stumbled across this channel (even if its 4am and I should sleep). You are criminally underrated
It's so strange coming back to this video all this time later after seeing the actual new forms they gave to Palkia and Dialga. I wonder what Jack thinks of them? I imagine they're not very favorable thoughts... At least I like them.
I love how the design turned out, it really looks like the original style and also something I'd love to see in the cover of a new game!
This was also super useful to learn about design overall, which is pretty cool
Didn't think I'd be watching a Vsauce video
Or did you?
Amazing design and really informative video, I learned a lot from it! Can't wait to see your design in the Gen 4 remakes ;)
Dude, this is straight up the best video I've ever seen on youtube. I love how you really try to get to the roots of the design and understand its quintessence. I don't know how to draw at all and this video made me want to learn.
I had not expected to enter Pokemon history class in that intro (for the nth time)
I wanted to see that Xyz Yu-gi-oh Monster version of Palkia!
What a nice video.
In my opinion, when he mentioned that i first thought up the XYZ monster "dark rebellion xyz dragon" which reminds me of his palkia.
I would've really liked to see more focus on those last 3 minutes, a deeper analysis of Mr. Sugimori's use of values and what tools and methods are best for replicating it. The rest of the video was more of generic art advice, which was nice, but not what I clicked the video hoping to see. Your art came out looking excellent, and I would've loved more details on how it got to that level of quality purely in terms of the art style and not the design. You called it the easiest part, but I just feel that it deserved more focus.
I agree. Maybe a part two of this video?
Bruh the diamond and pearl music in the background was much appreciated I haven’t heard those since I was like 6
I think this is the first ever video I’ve seen from you guys back when I was trying to learn how to draw fakemon. Really happy I found you guys last year.
This is my favorite video I’ve seen all quarantine. Your designs were so cool!!!!
One of the few videos I can't close without liking when I finished it.
As an artist, I appreciate and love what you’ve created and the art that you have put together is well thought out and well drawn
As a Pokémon fan, omg that looks so cool and Believable 😆👍
That was one of the best fan art Pokemon designs I have ever seen. Such a great artistic breakdown of the Pokemon art style. Great video
I think this is a pretty good tutorial, it helps cover things like hue+value and is the best one I’ve found so far. I think more what I’m looking for is how to make it LOOK like a Pokémon, things like design motifs, line weight, etc.
I know Sugimori isn’t the designer behind every pokemon or character, but I’m absolutely in love with his art style from when he started illustrating for Game Freak Magazine to the 3rd Generation of Pokemon.
Name one Pokemon he didn't illustrate
dark force Well, Ken Sugimori does all the official renders of each Pokémon. If you mean Pokémon designed by him there are a lot designed by other people.
I was really hoping you do this video I've been looking everywhere how to do this kind of art style thank you
Do you know which Programm he is using?
Me too! I still have mine. I even also still have my Psyduck, Tepig, and Zigzagoon Plush. But it's in D A B O X.
@@D3rKuehlschrank procreate I believe.
I tried to make a pokemon! It’s called Stalabb, (STALL-ah-b) and is based off a blue crab. It’s a water type, eyestalk crab pokemon. “The Stalabb can barely move due to the weight of its eyestalks, witch it’s 6 legs cannot support. It is mostly harmless, but can break bones if it’s eyestalks hit you. It hits palm trees with its eyestalks to make fruit fall. It swallows the fruit whole with its big mouth on its puny body. It turns the fruit into juice in its body, spitting it out at attackers like water.”
Your description of your design process is so good! On a side note, lovely choices for Pokemon music for this video
I'm glad I clicked on this video. It really touched something in my mind and is kind of inspiring me to learn more. Thank you for that.
I'd like to see how you would do this with dialga. You can't have this without the other
Probably a big clock or sundial on the back
That design for Primal Palkia looks so good and smooth and clean. Really good job, mate.
I absolutely love character design and making my own characters, and this video was very inspiring and helpful!! And your final piece looks absolutely amazing
Love the final result! And I’d love if we got more videos like this one!
You got it!
1:37 I have that exact doll it used to make a Pikachu noise but now it's just a jumbled mess XDD
Aidan Van Hammee I did too but I lost mine 😭
Me too!
I still have mine but it's dusty
I would love to get an updated one of these with your new expanded knowledge
Ok, the video presentation of this as well as the dissection is much better than the last ones I've seen. I love these kinds of videos. Much more refined dialogue, in-depth, informative, fair assessments of what should or shouldn't be done or what is actually subjective and great advice! A real take on subjectivity without the weird vibe of "superiority" in design. I love interpretations of "what if" designs so this is great!
The designs for Primal Groudon and Kyogre are also just glorified pallet swaps. They didn't add anything extra to them, just made them bigger and glowing.
Well, to be honest Primal Groudon & Kyogre are just slightly edited _pallet swaps,_ which I don't mind since I think they look pretty cool! It looks more like the more dramatic changes are used for Mega evolutions. 🤔
This looks more like a new kind of evolution, not mega, not primal, and not regular evolution, more like a ‘Creation Form’.
the shading of the pokemon art style has always been tricky for me because it differs from my usual soft-cel style of shading so this was very helpful!
I love that design dude, I hope you do tons more designs!
I love how in your final design he looks as if he's a launched rocket which thrusts out the universe itself
Idk why but I feel like this Pokemon would benefit from having eyes or something similar that a person can focus its look on.
It's a pokemon before space. He mentioned that putting a mask on this pokemon would make him more mysterious
Idk. I think It works best without visible eyes
I feel like having no eyes, a blank face plays into the space theme. It does not give you any expressions, it is the very essence of existence before anything existed. Take a look at warframes for example. Most of them don't have any eyes and even when they do, they are imitations and not their functioning eyes. It gives off a blank, cold vibe you can associate with space and time before existence.
@@xxAryAryxx that could work. It's a nice idea
I would also say that its head looking up over its right shoulder, as if roaring could look cool
Fond memories of gen4 the music was very nostalgic! Good job on the artwork and commentary!
This looks much better than their official primal form or wait I mean their origin form. Either way I wished this was in legends rather than centaur.
Me half the time:
“How the f$&# is he doing that?”
The execution joke won you a subscriber, cograts
I'm an artist and this is FREAKING PHENOMENAL!! Such good designs. You're a powerhouse of fantastic information!
I'm glad this was in my recommendation, it was nice and educational and i love the final outcome
How to hype fans by learning the ways of Nintendo pokemon style drawings so you can trick future generations.
Totally not my description of a future plan.
Totally
Would be cool to see more on the linework and, I guess, being able to draw your base lines in something that approximates the iconic Sugimori style. You’ve clearly drawn Pokémon for quite a while and definitely have a sense for it!! I’ve never tried to draw in this style, though, and I’m not really sure where to start. Did you just study the style for a long time, or do you have a technique for learning/replicating a new style? I’m real curious, because this is awesome and I’d love to drop my tendency towards realism and broaden my horizons by attempting to draw Pokémon and Pokémon franchise characters in a more Suigimori-esque manner sometime.
Personally, I draw traditionally, but in terms of base lines, shapes, and just style breakdowns, even seeing that kind of thing done digitally can help! ^_^
that art imbodies space, its amazing
This looks fantastic. You replicated the style very well, and made an extremely appealing new design.
What were the brushes you used? Especially with the linework and values
Please
2:50 OH SNAP HE PLAYIN’ MY JAM!
*THE SPICE IS REAL*
Bruhhhhh nostalgic feelsssss
I know I recognize this theme, but I can’t for the life of me remember which game it came from!
Optimistic Pessimist It is from Pokemon Black & White’s Driftveil City m’dude.
HexterXD thanks mate
This was a very helpful video, thank you so much! I'm really into creating and designing my own characters, but never truly succeeded in making it the way I want it to be. Your tips gave me a lot of new ideas to visualise my creations!
This alone is worth subbing for, you have an amazing approach and breaking down the process.
Oh hey! Your tutorials are supper helpful! I really like your channel and the result of the drawing was amazing!
I’m really interested in drawing Pokemon.
I also use procreate, so I wanted to know what kind of pencil did you exactly use
if you want to tell me, of course
You have a new subscriber 🙂 keep up the good work!
Pencil like the brush in Procreate? I use the dry ink brush for linework and flat brush for colors. If you're asking which physical pencil I use on my iPad, it's the Apple Pencil I bought with the iPad!
Subjectively
Thank you so much for answering!
And yes! I was talking about the brush in procreate 🙂
Oh goodness this design is absolutely lovely, would i be allowed to make a character of this design or take inspiration from it?
Of course!
@@Subjectively thank you so much!
This is one of the collest things I've ever seen! And ty on your tips about how this style works, like, I always knew there was something specific but I could never tell what
AWESOME!!! You and the page keep me smiling and inspired. Thank you!
You say Dialga properly but who says Plakia emphasising the "ki" ???
I do lol
@@beardlessdragon SO you say it wrong in every way possible?
@@casoozh nah, just in a different way. Probably just a dialectal difference. different places put different emphasis on words
This legit looks like it could be on a box art for a Pearl/Diamond remake, AMAZING work!
Love that Driftveil theme in the background
Watching this gave me the inspiration to start drawing again, thank you so much!
Looking at the "keeping the siluette" comment seeing the new legends arceus design is kinda funny.
I feel like this is what Pokemon art academy is for
this was amazing man, I think you executed it very well
This is a beautiful rendition of Primal Palkia--love it!
This Palkia design didn't age very well with the origin-horse-centaur-Palkia we got in PLA...
Somebody should make a ROM hack around this Pokémon. :D
You explained everything super well throughout the whole video! I feel like I learned a lot from watching it!
Your videos are so inspiring! Gonna try out this style, grew up with pokemon and it got me in drawing and my job as game developer!
Subjectively, use MILK!
- SUPER EFFECTIVE -
Charizard Fainted..
I really only watched this for the speed paint. lol
You can't copy one's art style, you can make it similar, but it's easy to tell that wasn't done by his hand.
You dd really well and I love the colors used, the dark purple makes the pearls pop out beautifully. Instant fan. You have potential for art design and I'd love to see you do more of these for sure.
Thank you for doing this! I am really inspired by Ken Sugimori and Pokémon has had a massive impact on my life.
How to draw in the pokemon art style?
Simple.
*Draw like ken sugimori*
Imagine a void....
Oh, so the inside of my mind?
the history part in the first half and the art in the second half was a great video fusion
I wish artists like you could get the recognition of having their art put into the official games, so much talent could vastly improve an already magnificent game franchise to become so much more.
"these pokemon are the result of a large team of talented designers, marketers..."
*shows Regigigas* lmao
Mistakes in editing and selecting video were made ma dud.
@1:00 Let's not cry over spilt milk
2:50 Can I just say I love how the texts enlarges with the beat
First time watching your content, and first time watching anything like this, you have inspired me, and your work is really cool thanks, didn’t expect to experience this today
from my view, the body is really good, but a bit too "solid" for a manifestation of "nothing". i think that maybe some mist would probably solve this (kinda like gastly's mist)
the neck seems to me too low, as if it standing while uncomfortably bowing his head, like a dog that is lowering his neck to avoid being petted when it doesn't want to. i would make the neck a bit thinner in the intersection with the body, and lifting the head up.
overall this is a very good idea
This is why Trubbish is a better design than Grimer and Muk. Baby has THOUGHT and HEART put into it but everyone hates them because a trash pokemon is "lazy".
tiacat11 I totally agree
@@jrpgplayer the garbadors would like to know your location
Seriously tho there's a Pokemon showdown CZcamsr that's got his whole channel and fans based around garbadors and stuff lol
@@jrpgplayer Yea xD
Should concept and design be seperate? Because Muk's concept makes me feel like the design is better. like more thought can go into something and the simpler design might still be better
@power bolt. No Pokemon is based on just one thing. Muk is inspired by radioactive blobs that come to life from nuclear waste, as well as a mud yokai.
@@PaintedHoundie grimer and muks concept is literally just polluted water
Primal Palkia looks so sick! Keep up the good work!
This has to be the best video I’ve seen in along time