>>22829676They aren't bad drawings, not at all, but they are bad Ginjikas. Also either western or your average anime style couldn't matter less. The point is intelligently linking Pokemon to the real world and giving them a human equivalent that feels like them, that you look at and can feel the connection with, not to just stick the distinctive traits of a mon without any logic or reason. It needs to be done subtly.
>>22829683I won't defend Vaporeon because I'm really not a fan of it still, Charmander doesn't have a tail because these are all humans, not some kind of halfway hybrids. Humans don't have tails, so neither does Charmander. Still, I agree that there should have been at least one way to incorporate the tail into the design.
On the other hand the blue looks very good on Zapdos. It makes him stand out when otherwise the design would have been too monochrome and considering it does feel like Zapdos when you look at it I'm willing to overlook a small creative license that ended up being for the better (specially a sensible one like a blue lining on clothes, I wouldn't ever give a free pass to stuff like animal ears)
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>Terrible artstyleAddressed above. Plus, that's like your opinion m8. Overall not a very good argument to dismiss something when you don't back it up with some reason.
>>22829712>>22816572 suffers from being way too similar to the pokemon its based on, to the point of simply being a slightly anthropomorfic pokemon rather than a human using the candle motif and yellow eyes, the only two real characteristics of Litwick.It isn't creative, it isn't intelligent, it isn't even a Ginjika. Its just a pokemon with boobs slapped into it for good meassure, the very definition of generic. TL;DR: it's trash.
Some of the ones I posted are better than the others, but Roserade, Milotic, Zapdos, Jirachi, Darkrai and Mew have all found the perfect balance between pokemon and human.
