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Published: 2010-03-09 23:01:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 1343; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 29
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...searching far and wide.Lol this actually turned out better than I expected.
Anyway, I made this for the landscape contest. I thought I'd enter 'cos I suck at backgrounds and landscapes -_- needed to give it some effort!
Anyway, this is Kanto. Ash and Pikachu are overlooking it, staring towards the Indigo Plateau. This is also a 100% INaccurate drawing of Kanto >_< I would say whoops, but it was hardly possible anyway. I just put recognisable stuff where you could see it. There's the cycling road, PokΓ©mon tower, the S.S. Anne, Viridian Forest, Mount Moon...yeah, most of it's there except Pallet Town I think, but everything's in a different place.
There's also a Gyarados under Cycling Road and some Gastly around the PokΓ©mon tower, also, a Lapras and what's meant to be Seel near Seafoam Islands and the Legendary birds as shilouettes.
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This is really nice, I like the fact you've got all the little things together, it doesn't matter if it's inaccurate because it really shows a flavour of what they encounter through Kanto.
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Lolz. I really like this...er, liek this. It's just so... detailed, perhaps? Granted, the scale seems to confuse the brain a little, but I love the teeny bits. The glow and positions of teh Birds was a nce touch too. Thumbs up!
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Thanks ^^ Yeah, I did try and put more detail in, but the scale was a big issue. Firstly, I wasn't that good at it anyway (Ash is very out of scale) but also because I had to rearrange Kanto to make certain things noticeable. The big yellow tower is meant to mark Saffron (Silph Co.) yet is no where near the centre. The rock Ash is on is an invented summit of Rock Tunnel; it's above Lavender and to the right of Cerulean (it's hard to make out, but it's by Nugget Bridge on Mount Moon which is just above the middle.) But the fact Saffron isn't in the centre screws everything up. Also I missed Pallet because it would've been where Saffron is, and I'm also missing Celadon. I did want to add a few more little details but it's too far out to make anything worthwhile. You can hardly make out all the little Pohgeymans I added.
Thumbs partially up!
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Thumbs so high they become a potential danger for orbiting sattelites!
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Houston, we have a problem.
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Houston: "We clearly don't, there's a dude giving us the thumbs up."
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Ouch, mah thumbs. Warn me first the next time you're going to ram me with a sattelite.
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Oh yeah. Well, next time warn me twice.
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I'm sure that will greatly benefit your chances of continued survival!
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It's okay. I can regenerate digits...and the occasional dipthong.
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So you wouldn't mind if I was to slice off all your fingers?
*rummages about in knife cupboard* Hmm...looks like I'm out of fingers to use a knife now...
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O.O
how long did you spend on this! its awesome and vast! holy crap!
and i see three legendary birds in the background ^_^ nice job
pikachu <3
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Thank you ^^
Well, I drew the basic outline about a week or more ago and I can't remember how long that took me. But going over it and colouring it (basically everything, since the basic sketch was just scribbly circles -_-) took maybe 2 hours. I don't know whether to be pleased or horrified. But if I managed to achieve the look I wanted in 2 hours, I can't argue, despite most of it was done by messing about the colour/light balances. o_0
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0.o wow haha it looks like it took forever to do, so many different parts you know? it's just awesome looking ^_^
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Heheh, yeah, it was tough arranging all the different parts. That's why Kanto's all over the (wrong)place o_0
And thanks
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lol i like it anyways, makes you attempt to think of how the map actually goes, and thats when you realize you could probably draw the entire kanto map down and even mark where the rock tunnel is and the seafoam islands are
sure thing ^_^
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Yeah, it was nice having a bit of freedom with how Kanto is laid out. The official artworks of the region sometimes stray slightly from the game. I remember having the PokΓ©mon Board Game that used an artworked map of Kanto >_<
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Wow awesome
I suck at backgrounds/landscapes...
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Heh, thank you
But I suck at backgrounds and landscapes too! That's why I was so surprised how this turned out. I think it's because in this picture, the landscape is the focal point, whereas in say a comic the characters are the focal point instead.. and therefore I spend less time on the background in a comic >_<.
What I'm saying is, the best way to amplify a background is to either make it the focal point or just to spend more time on it. But I think if the background is too complicated/detailed it takes attention way from characters, especially in comic panels. -_-
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Yeah, you're right 
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Ah, I never thought about blur. Yes, that's a good way to do nice detailed backgrounds and to remove focus. Very good idea 
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niceeeeeeeeee dude simply awesome line and colour and the rule o thirds works nicely
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Thank you muchly
Rule of thirds, eh? I'd never actually heard of it until now. Maybe I ought to keep that in mind from now on! 
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