Hieros Gamos, Fakemon and More

[megaMasquerain]

Well it's hard to make fakemon that are in such a different style from pokemon style and then have them fit in in the first place

but even without style, they don't fit the facial types, proportion, anatomy, design patterns of pokemon

many don't even seem like their animal idea thought process is pokemon-like.

Pokemon can be greatly varied but they still almost always look like pokemon and they look like pokemon for a reason. If you want to carry on with this way of making monsters, they look nice and people might be fine with that. If you're bent on calling them fakemon, however, I suggest you study and draw/sprite pokemon so you can get the right idea. Pokemon are also much simpler and generally have cleaner designs. Geometric shapes seem to be the basis of a lot of pokemon structure and patterns.

yes, I am bent on calling them fakemon since there's such a larger "market" for fakemon than RPG monsters.

Anyways, this is the same stuff I've been hearing all along, and it tends to not help. I have been working up from editing Pokemon sprites when I was a lot younger and RSE had just come out, so I have plenty of practice working with official sprites.

I realize that something seems off to most people but I'd like to hear specifics regarding why a certain sprite doesn't look like a Pokemon rather than generalizations on why all my sprites aren't Pokemon-y.

I hope I'm not coming across like an asshole in this post, it's just that this is the same stuff I've heard all the time and it never seems to help.

As for the contrast on the rabbit I will get to that as soon as I finish another sprite.