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[Magikarp + Machamp = MAKARP!]

Yeah!

Magikarp and Machamp, two of my favorite original pokemon and here they are in all of their glory combined together.

This Magichamp doesn't take no for an answer when a creepy man asks you to buy him from you outside of a cave in a Pokemon center.

When you teach this Macharp surf he doesn't let you get on his back, he simply throws you across the water.

When he uses splash your face caves in and not even a full restore could bring you back.

Ha, this is really awesome. I love the mashup and you did an amazing job all around.

[Pokemon: Teamwork]

This is amazing!

I really like Nidoking or as you call him, the big purple dude. He looks like if he were to be in battle mode he'd be the scariest son of a bitch on the screen.

Charizard is definitely a badass here too. He's got battle scars and his neck is super buff. I do think the fire on his tail should have been a bit more intense, but we'll just pretend that he's holding back for the sake of his trainer.

Gyarados really makes me laugh because he doesn't look so much angry as he does simply not impressed with anything.

Everyone else was done really good as well. This guy has a pretty kickass team. It would be neat to see a submission of him as a younger trainer with all of the base pokemon of these evolutions.

[Onslaught]

I really like the background and colors used here. The shading and shadows were pretty awesome. On the topic of shadows I feel like the shadows of the rocks and his body maybe should have been facing straight back instead of to the back right corner. I understand that there seems to be a strong light source taking it that direction, but the shadows seem to completely ignore any effect that the lightning around Jack Wernicke would have on the direction of the shadows. Also, it would have been really cool to see a shadow of the boss with a darker outline to really give a good feel for how intense the battle is about to be.

I feel like some of the proportions are off a little. The lower body is very long while the upper body seems to be a little short. The arms bug me a little because the forearms are the same size or bigger than the upper arm. The ankles seem extremely tiny for the size of his legs and the neck seems odd for some reason. I think it may be how much of a point it comes to on the top. On the hands the fingers are odd sizes. It's weird that some fingers that should be smaller than the thumb in girth are actually thicker.

Overall it's a really awesome piece and a new approach on a Madness character. It would be pretty cool to see a flash series created using characters in this style.

Swf responds:

I did the shading and lighting really late at night so it was kinda rushed, i'll keep that in mind for future drawings; Agreed, the body anatomy and proportions are off and should have been adjusted accordingly (this was originally just a pose sketch) I felt like this was perfect for Jack and incorporated it anyways. Overall, a lot could be added and fixed on every aspect of this. I appreciate the time you took to critique my drawing, thank you.

[Japanese Tiger]

(Basically insert copy and past of my last review here, but don't actually do that because it wouldn't be a good thing to do in the review section)

Again, could use some contrast like your last piece. Maybe a red dragon attacking the the tiger? In all seriousness something red in the background instead of just the white could really make this stick out and look better.

MonoFlauta responds:

Almost same copy and paste of the last review hahaha. Same thing, just copied it on paper and give it a shot. I guess that by that time I still believed I could get better at drawing haha

[Japanese Dragon]

This is really good. Did you take a picture of it or scan it in? It kind of looks like you took a picture of it, but it would have turned out a little better if it was scanned. If it was scanned then ignore what I just said. :P It is kind of dark though and a little bit of light would have made it show up more clear.

I feel like it needs some contrast. Maybe a blue tiger or something fighting the dragon! Or some sort of basic color in the background to make it pop more.

MonoFlauta responds:

I just looked to an image from google and tried to replicate it on paper. Sure I would have done it a lot better if it was scanned but well, wanted to try it out!
Thanks for the review!

[Ola K Ase]

How much sir? I'd like to purchase the piece of art for my living room wall. Do you ship across borders like that?

MonoFlauta responds:

I would love to, but it will be difficult to do that from my country haha.
Anyway, thanks for the review and probably you will be able to find something better for your living room wall!

[Hunting in the Woods]

I really like this. The forest, trees, and deer really work well together. I'm not sure if I like the color of the person standing in the picture as it seems way out of place with the other color choices, but perhaps you had a reason for that.

I could see the woods being used as a background in an animation. Great job.

MonoFlauta responds:

Thanks! This was an old thing, as always, the art is not my strong part but well, had fun doing it!

[Stranger Eye]

I see in one of your responses that you didn't use a scanner. Like mentioned in my last review I highly recommend focusing on the lighting when taking a picture of this for the future. It's really hard to see this one, but you can tell that it was really good with or without the blur.

Let me know when you submit something else so I can check it out.

NekoMika responds:

Thankies and can do