Same. Dunno why they abandoned it so early

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this is now a ken sugimori art thread

>>58846977
Back when Pokemon was about monster RPG, and not furry gay porn franchise

>>58846977
Bunch of shitmons

>>58847849
Dragonite existing proves your statement to be wrong once again

>>58846977
It's cursed seeing the middle stages not being darker colored

>>58846977
Bulbasaur line is so perfect, soul

>>58846977
Based

>>58847116
Also based

>>58847849
didn't mind them as much before
but seeing them try to control this board just justifies 4chan's hatred towards them

>>58846977
Squirtle looks kinda out of place

>>58848113
second-best starter after all

>>58847856
The thing is that Dragonite stood out as the heckin good dragon boi but now it's just standard fare

>>58847797
Even more based

>>58846977
Watercolor is overrated and Sugimori is a hack who ruined the franchise by throwing Masuda under the bus.

he's even more based than i thought

>>58847797
nice

>>58853547
next time bait with something more believable

Oh so this is another thread to be bumped even more hmm

Watercolors were based but you can understand why Sugi changed to more plain styles when you remember that his key art was being used as assets for everything worldwide, and needed to be easy to make out in all kinds of sizes and printing scenarios
Even as early as the TCG's Gym 1 set in 1998, Sugimori had new compositions coming out that used other techniques, digital ink and pencils similar to what you'd see in Gen 3 and 4.
However they kept the watercolor aesthetics in Gen 2 game art likely for consistency, which I like because especially for the Pokemon, it gives the impression of a sketch artist filling out his zukan by hand.

>>58855622
yeah

>>58854721
Lmao

Oh so this thread will stay up even longer hmm

>>58855622
right

>>58853547
TPBP.

>toilet paper best paper
checks out

>>58855622
Sorta based but who knows

>>58855622
sure

>>58854721
Nice

>>58846977
same

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>>58846977

>>58857953
More like makes it look suspicious

>>58854721
kek

Oh so the thread will be bumped even more hmm

you dont have to announce the necroing btw op

Oh so the thread will always get bumped because of all the whining and samefagging hmm

Why mods love sharties so much?

>>58863197
Why ESLs always type like this

could it be that all shartoids type in the exact same broken English

>>58854721
is he ok?

>delcatty thread organically reaches over 100 replies in two days
>these are necro’d for weeks barely getting 50
Lololo

Oh so this thread will last even longer hmm

>>58847116
fpbp

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>>58847849
It's weird the younger generation forgets that pokemon was originally an RPG.

>zoomers will scapegoat Ivysaur to ruin every Kanto/Gen1 thread now
IP range block South America and India already

Trip on thx

>>58866089
based knower

>bumped at the same time as eevee spam
Lolol

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>>58864523
true

>>58866089
Oh so even more threads are getting bumped because of one samefag's whining hmm

>>58866046
yeah

>>58866046
It still is an RPG. Even real-time shit like ZA handles like an MMO

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>>58847856
>he finds THIS sexually attractive

>>58846977
Is there a place where I can find high quality scans of these illustrations?

>>58868818
I hope so

>>58868818
Bulbapedia. Go to a pokemon page and then click on their gallery archive

>>58869761
thanks anon

>>58869761
Luckily Bulbapedia still uses the original files and doesn't convert them to webp

>>58866986
Jeetnigger moment.

>>58869761
hyper thanks anon

>still less organic replies than the newer delcatty thread
Lololol

Oh so the thread's gonna last even longer and it's all because of one samefag's whining hmm

>>58873290
Based

>>58866089
Oh so the thread will keep lasting longer and longer and it's all because of one samefag's whining hmm

>>58869761
ultra thanks anon

>>58846977
I can appreciate it now that I'm an adult, but I thought that it looked splotchy and cheap as a kid.

>>58869761
mega thanks anon

>>58847116
Super fpbp

>>58874953
lol

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>>58868716
>fanart
Lmao

>>58846977
All looks like fucking garbage I can't believe how this shit became popular

>>58846977
probably didn't have a sanskrit translation back then

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>>58855622
>Even as early as the TCG's Gym 1 set in 1998, Sugimori had new compositions coming out that used other techniques, digital ink and pencils similar to what you'd see in Gen 3 and 4.
Yeah, people tend to forget this

>>58847116
Hyper fpbp

>>58878619
Gym heroes and challenge are the single 2 best card sets in history

>>58877384
>need to keep track of 100 HP or so
I thought pokeyman was supposed to be kiddy compared to magic the pozzening

>>58869761
giga thanks anon

>>58866046
??? why, what is it now

>>58847116
Ultra fpbp

>>58853547
Based Sugimori, I hope he received the Order of the Rising Sun for that

>>58883701
wtf

>>58846977
Why don't you learn making watercolor art yourself? That's what I've been doing

>>58880794
My man that card is old enough to vote and have kids. You should see the shit that modern cards look like if you think thats complicated in any way

reddit was a mistake

It’d be really cool if they brought back this style for a generation. The want is obviously there from general audiences since everyone spazzes out over “fat pikachu”.

Don’t have my hopes up though, each generation since ruby/sapphire seems to get lazier and lazier

>>58885205
I suppose

>>58847116
Super hyper fpbp

what's the best place to browse through scans of old gen 1 - 2 sugimori art from the ganes / TCG? I know you can find some stuff on Bulbapedia but I'm talking more like promo art, not individual species artwork

I'm putting PokeMMO on my portable and I want nice boxart but all the fan boxart from launchbox sucks ass so i want to make my own

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>>58880794
You have no idea.

>>58886959
There's a few on Sugimori's page, but that's nowhere near complete

>>58885205
Half-based

>>58847116
Mega fpbp

>>58877384
this isn't attractive whatsoever

>>58885205
lol

>>58884637
yeah

>>58884637
right

>>58880794
>100 HP
That's only 10 damage markers. Surely you can count to 10.

>>58846977
I don't suppose you have an archive where I can find this style of art?

>>58847803
What happened to Tyranitar?

>>58847116
Giga spbp

>>58853547
If only he really did

>>58883701
>it's a real award
lol

>>58847116
I guess the Sharty raided this post since it's deleted.

>>58895778
Or it's too much of a best post and the marketing department couldn't handle it

>>58851692
it's the bald look

>>58846977
Someone told me he used something called copic markers.