Fanmade Pokémon Designs (Fakemon) - Tracers, garbage designers, and of course, furries

[Lapis Lazuli]

Hey look! More traced artwork!

Spoiler: Original Trainer Artwork

Also, why do they have horns? Pretty sure the humans in the Pokemon world aren't exactly mon-like themselves.

 

[BlancoMailo]

@Machoke Me Daddy, you should archive the pictures in the OP locally, people have a tendency to start deleting things once they get linked to on the Farms and you don't want an OP full of dead links.

 

[Literally Whojak?]

no mention of that guy that did oversexualized fakemons (and digimons too)?
i can't remember how the hell he was named on da...

I suppose you’re thinking about Midnitez-Remix. He’s been (was?) working on an fanmade sequel to BW, albeit full of many "interesting" content, this being one of them.

Spoiler: Pokemon BLACKED

 

[Celebrate Nite]

I'll be honest alot of fakemons just show how the artists behind them don't understand the concept of good character designs - resembling a poorly cobbled incarnation of a preexisting pokemon or just something that looks too shitty to ever be an actual pokemon,

From what I've seen so far, the people that makes these fakemons like to pile on shit on top of shit on top of shit.

These designs are just too busy. None of them are simplistic enough like they were in the past few gens of the actual Pokemon games and half the time they like to take an animal and give it a random element just for the sake of it.

I can't draw on the computer for shit, but if I were making a fakemon, I'd first pick an IRL geographic location, research the types of animals that inhabit it, and then depending on the environment and animal behaviors I would determine the appropriate type to give it while keeping the design simple enough that people could recognize wtf it's supposed to resemble. For example, On Long Island, there's not to many birds/rodents/animals that are distinctly different from the Pokemon that already exist in the games, however Long Island is also known for their beaches, and there's plenty of marine life I could pick and use for either original fakemons, or fakemon evolutions of already existing water type pokemon.

 

[Coelacanth]

From what I've seen so far, the people that makes these fakemons like to pile on shit on top of shit on top of shit.

These designs are just too busy. None of them are simplistic enough like they were in the past few gens of the actual Pokemon games and half the time they like to take an animal and give it a random element just for the sake of it.

I can't draw on the computer for shit, but if I were making a fakemon, I'd first pick an IRL geographic location, research the types of animals that inhabit it, and then depending on the environment and animal behaviors I would determine the appropriate type to give it while keeping the design simple enough that people could recognize wtf it's supposed to resemble. For example, On Long Island, there's not to many birds/rodents/animals that are distinctly different from the Pokemon that already exist in the games, however Long Island is also known for their beaches, and there's plenty of marine life I could pick and use for either original fakemons, or fakemon evolutions of already existing water type pokemon.

You hit the nail right on the head there. Designing monsters isn't as easy as a lot of artists tend to believe - quite a few pokemon have had several different pieces of concept art made before they reached their final design and nine times out of ten those concept pieces are just animal/object/whatever + elemental features. That's what a lot of fakemon feel like to me - they're just concepts that, if were put into a pokemon game, I probably wouldn't want on my team - and the whole point of pokemon designs are to make you want to use them in battle.

 

[Mao Hao Hao]

The best pokemon fan games I've played have all been ones which don't add fakemon in at all, and just use all of the existing pokemon from every gen instead. Examples would be Pokemon Reborn and Pokemon Zeta/Omnicron. I don't mind if new Megas get added or other form changing things found in the real pokemon games, as they don't feel as lazy/jarring/rip-off as slapping some new color pallets onto charizard and calling it a day.

 

[Lapis Lazuli]

Remember that Hitmonchan redesign I posted in another thread?
Here's the Instagram.

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Their goal is redesigning all 151 Kanto Pokemon. And so far, almost all of them are awful. The art's good but they no longer resemble Pokemon, and sometimes even miss the "point" (inspiration) of the original in the first place.

 

[PopRocks]

Aren't a good chuck of fakemons just teens making mon designs? I feel like we need to have a sort of standard or list other wise we'll just be posting some kids art.
Also, to add to the thread, here's some of BW3's "characters"

 

[FluffyTehFennekin]

Remember that Hitmonchan redesign I posted in another thread?
Here's the Instagram.

Pokémon ReBoot (@pkmnreboot) • Instagram photos and videos

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Their goal is redesigning all 151 Kanto Pokemon. And so far, almost all of them are awful. The art's good but they no longer resemble Pokemon, and sometimes even miss the "point" (inspiration) of the original in the first place.

They don’t even look like like anime monsters. Something about them just feels too western for pokemon.

 

[Lapis Lazuli]

Aren't a good chuck of fakemons just teens making mon designs? I feel like we need to have a sort of standard or list other wise we'll just be posting some kids art.

Not really. Many popular Instagram/DeviantArt artists are adults who take commissions for design. The Instagram artists in peculiar tend to be tracers however, and as a result are tracing work for commissions. As a result, the person spending money for the commission may never even notice.
I do get your concerns, however.
And even if they were teens, if they're old enough to take commissions like the big boys or draw half-decent, I think they go here too, after all this thread's more than just talking about one artist, rather a multitude of them.

They don’t even look like like anime monsters. Something about them just feels too western for pokemon.

Agreed. For example, Jynx is based off the Yama-uba. Sure, it has some opera singer and nordic undertones, but it's not just that.
Electabuzz and its counterpart Magmar are also based off of onis, and the redesign sort of gets rid of the oni inspiration.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

Agreed. For example, Jynx is based off the Yama-uba. Sure, it has some opera singer and nordic undertones, but it's not just that.
Electabuzz and its counterpart Magmar are also based off of onis, and the redesign sort of gets rid of the oni inspiration.

Jynx is actually based primarily on four things. Ganguro fashion, Yama-uba, the Nordic goddess Hel, who had half black skin and ruled over Niflheim, a place which is usually depicted as being a primordial frozen wasteland, and Zwarte Piete, the black-skinned helpers of Santa in Dutch folklore.

The latter inspirations are the most interesting to me as it would explain Jynx's ice-typing, the reason she looks like a Viking, and the reason that Jynxes are seen working for Santa in the anime.

 

[Trappin in the Trap]

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Some of those mons look kinda sussy.

Spoiler: Just to save some space

I get that they're just references, but there's a reason Hawlucha doesn't just look like Thunder Jushin Liger or something. Pokemon inspired on other media shouldn't just look like you fused the original character with a pokemon.

 

[FluffyTehFennekin]

Aren't a good chuck of fakemons just teens making mon designs? I feel like we need to have a sort of standard or list other wise we'll just be posting some kids art.
Also, to add to the thread, here's some of BW3's "characters"
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Wait! That’s a boy?
Also the mon designs are a bit iffy.

 

[Lapis Lazuli]

A little off-topic, but I was right: DarkandWindie does draw porn.

Spoiler: banettes don't look like that but ok

Wait! That’s a boy?

 

[Leaf-eon]

Agreed. For example, Jynx is based off the Yama-uba. Sure, it has some opera singer and nordic undertones, but it's not just that.
Electabuzz and its counterpart Magmar are also based off of onis, and the redesign sort of gets rid of the oni inspiration.

Thats my mine problem with Pokemon resdesigns. I remember finding some hipsters artists on Youtube that tried to fix pokemon with bad designs but ended up missing the point of the what Pokemon was based off of and making them into gernic animal/monsters.
For example:Turning Pangoro into a genic fat panda while it loses it banchō inspiration.

 

[Mao Hao Hao]

Aren't a good chuck of fakemons just teens making mon designs? I feel like we need to have a sort of standard or list other wise we'll just be posting some kids art.
Also, to add to the thread, here's some of BW3's "characters"
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Are those the player characters? So you can be girlish boy or boyish girl? if swapped them around it would look decent, but as it is now, feels a bit....forced progressive or something.

Remember that Hitmonchan redesign I posted in another thread?
Here's the Instagram.

Pokémon ReBoot (@pkmnreboot) • Instagram photos and videos

52.8k Followers, 95 Following, 168 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Pokémon ReBoot (@pkmnreboot)

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Their goal is redesigning all 151 Kanto Pokemon. And so far, almost all of them are awful. The art's good but they no longer resemble Pokemon, and sometimes even miss the "point" (inspiration) of the original in the first place.

They butchered Venusaur, my all time favourite

 

[Kaze no Kuronoa]

This might have some overlap with Purple Kecleon's lolcow thread. I remember she used to do alt-color pokemon drawings.

How are you guys going to drop PK's name like that without bringing up her Shaymin Sky Form "hoax"? Especially because the Pokémon Community kissed her and Eevee's ass over it back in the day (and it can be found in most Pokémon unnofficial Wikis that have a page on fake Pokémon and hoaxes too).

Spoiler: The design

 

[Lapis Lazuli]

Thats my mine problem with Pokemon resdesigns. I remember finding some hipsters artists on Youtube that tried to fix pokemon with bad designs but ended up missing the point of the what Pokemon was based off of and making them into gernic animal/monsters.
For example:Turning Pangoro into a genic fat panda while it loses it banchō inspiration.

These guys?

 

[Leaf-eon]

These guys?

Yep. That's the one.

 

[FluffyTehFennekin]

How are you guys going to drop PK's name like that without bringing up her Shaymin Sky Form "hoax"? Especially because the Pokémon Community kissed her and Eevee's ass over it back in the day (and it can be found in most Pokémon unnofficial Wikis that have a page on fake Pokémon and hoaxes too).

Spoiler: The design

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Speaking of hoaxes, ever heard of Kaenchu, a supposed Pikachu evolution for Pokemon X & Y?

Spoiler

Or Korechu, a fake Pokemon make DS sequel of Hey You Pikachu! This one turned out to be an April Fools prank

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