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Published: 2017-03-13 22:15:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 301; Favourites: 8; Downloads: 1
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Still working my way through some requests for humanized Pokemon designs, but decided it was also high time I uploaded some Pokemon who were, y'know, actually Pokemon. This started out as a quick sketch, and ended up far better than I intended it, so I ended up giving it a background and an unfeasibly HUGE MOON looming over everythingDr. Nox has been around for a long time, and has had two major loves of his life: a Kabutops named Irene (who eventually became Mrs. Irene Equinox), and a Tropius called Cavendish , who he met and fell for several years after Irene passed away from old age. Clearly Dr. Nox has a type, and that type is "prehistoric".
Many evenings were spent reading poetry tucked up under Cavendish's leaf-wings, going to lectures and museums together, and flying up together to take in the air and moonlight, and enjoy the privacy above the smoke of the city.
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This is gorgeous 
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Aw, thank you.
1) Find a brand of pencils you like, and get to know how they work. I used Steadler Ergosoft pencils (and a pencil-extender so I can use the darned pricey things down to the last nub), because they're soft enough to blend together nicely (unlike Crayola, which I find are nice and vivid, but weirdly plastic-ey), don't smudge too readily, and don't require you to chisel the darn things into the paper to get a strong colour. Nice pencils make all the difference.
2) When shading strong or dark colours, apply the darkest colour first, then colour over with the lighter pencil(s). I find if I build up from the lightest colour first, the layers of pencil gets kind of "plastic-ey", and the dark shades go on weirdly patchy. On this picture, I put the dark brown and green on Cavendish first, then added in the lighter shades - but for Dr. Nox, and the skyline, I built up the shading from the lighter colours first, as their overall colours are a lot lighter.
3) Colour lightly in one direction first, then go back over it in the opposite direction to smooth out the little lines you left the first time. If I'm doing a gradient, like the skyline here, I then repeat this, shading in increasingly dark colours from the top. This is the main tip, really - there's no way to avoid leaving lines and little white bits, but if you keep going over it in different directions (turning your pic upside-down as needed), you can minimise the evidence.
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Thanks greatly, I'll put this to good use
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I dunno whether this would help any, either. I scanned a picture as I drew and shaded it, as a step-by-step tutorial for a friend.
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Oh wow, cool. 
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