>>37149183>please clarifyYou can have minimal muscular definition, which I assume was intentional, without simplifying limbs into formless tubes. Slight changes in the arcing and curviture could imply so much more form than simple uniform tubes. His current design is like the earliest gesture-draft of his general shape which imo, if taken just a little bit further, could have worked much better.
I'd link you to the artbook resources that I used to study design but I don't have them at hand anymore and most of them were DRM'd to fuck, have this pic instead to kind of illustrate what I mean. Obviously pokemons don't really follow human anatomy and there are large differences in artstyle, I still feel that incineroar uses a similarly lazy style as the one on the right with a simple uniform tube rather than uniform ovals. Just the tiniest bit of thickness change below the elbow/knee would make his design more powerful.
>LITERAL belt that he has been described to TAKE OFFWhether or not the belt can be taken off or not is irrelevant as they're static parts of the design, regardless of their possible wider functionality.
>but you can't compare those two pieces of media at allI didn't though, you did.
>can you direct me to it?From the dictionary
>ornate, disparate, or clashing in design or colors; cluttered with small, unharmonious details; fussyIncineroar has a lot of high-contrast clashing colors with small details directing your eyes to his face, hands, belt and tail, it's clearly what they went for. It's a busy design. As a result the areas of less clashing colors and details ie. the chest and thighs, stand out due to them acting as a sort of negative space compared to rest of the design. Is it glaring? Probably not, most of the target audience doesn't care or notice as they're children. Hell, I wouldn't care if this thread wasn't specifically about pokemon design but since we're talking about it, I'll critique the design like it was an assignment.
