>>56216468>How do you guys get into writing?Personally I just think of Ruka and her personality. That personality determines what kinds of pokemon she would use, where she'll go and how her adventure goes. Since your character is more of a gym leader you can go one of two routes
1. How did she become a gym leader? What lead to her attraction to poison types? What allowed her to establish herself as a Gym Leader. How did she get so strong? etc.
or
2. As a gym leader, What kind of responsibilities does she have. What's her battle strategy? Based on how you think she'll battle, what would be an interesting opponent for her? how does she respond to victory? How does she respond to loss. How is her relationship with her pokemon.
The questions force you to create answers. The answers establish character. The character drives story, the story creates narrative.
For Example with Ruka, the Erika battle was based on
1. Ruka was born in Celadon City.
2. Ruka's and Jynx have a love of fashion and Erika is the only kanto gym leader who wears a Kimono.
3. Jynx's typing completely counters Erika's gym.
4. It's Ruka's first gym battle and she's inexperienced.
And from there I built a story around that. I don't know if it's "good" per se, but it was fun to write!
>Ken Sugomori Watercolor style It's a hard style to mimick. One thing I had to learn is howhis style is both "soft" and "hard". With Blended colors softly blending into each other contrasted with HARD contrast. Especially for whites which just break the figures apart. Honestly even though I'm proud of this picture I know I played it too safe with the highlights.
