Pokemon!

[Azunara]

I'd actually buy a metric ton of X whatevers. Using that, I defeated Elite Four and Lance with all my pokemon except my two legendaries in low 40's. Normally, you want all of them in mid to high 40s, so yeah. X defend, X attack, X whatever really do help.

And yeah, Moonlost. Asher and Rust have pretty quickly become Ivika's friends. Poor lonely leafeon is happy to have anyone as a friend.

And lastly, I'm kind of scared to add my art now. O_o Mine will just kill the quality of it.

[Felidire]

A few days later, and I'm finally done with my pokemon for the colab.
I was going to do a little more texture for fur, but it wasn't turning out well and the style I was using just didn't feel like my art. I'm happy enough with this as-is, and can't wait to see what other pokemon people decide to add.
(Super tempted to do another, pixelated version though >.>)
Interesting note, up until now, I want's really sure what my favourite pokemon was. I mean, I certainly loved a lot of designs, but none really were my favourite. After a little soul searching (and browsing on Serebii), I found that Lucario just inched a little above my other favourites. So, there you go. Kung-fu Anubis with spikes and lasers for the win. <3

That looks awesome, and you definately picked a good one; the lucario movie is quite possibly my current favourite of the lot. ~ Laser jackal ftw xD

This should look cool when it's finished. ~

And lastly, I'm kind of scared to add my art now. O_o Mine will just kill the quality of it.

Naawh, don't be scared. =<
You have cute art, plus it adds diversity and makes the overall picture moar unique. x3

(btw how far are you on PMD? I just got to Mt. Blaze) ^^-

[Makoes]

I am not sure how to add my art to the picture though...
I'd love to have time to take a computer arts course (and money to) sadly I have neither.

do I have to draw the picture on the computer itself or can I use a scanned picture?

[Felidire]

I suppose you can do either, if you decide to scan something then moon or myself can change the backgorund to white and then place our two guys next to yours.

I don't think it's really all that necessary to take digital media courses! If you install photoshop (or some other high-end graphics editing software) and then just fiddle around with it for a couple of days, chances are that you'll pick up on all the basics rather quickly. (It's much more fun if you have a graphics tablet, though.)

[Makoes]

I've had photoshop for...3yrs, and still cant do anything useful with it. the program scares me a bit. I can work pint alright, but thats because its pretty basic. I think its things like layers that really get me. I see people do all these really cool coloring with photoshop, and I've looked over alot of tutorials, but some of the stuff they talk about arent on my program, or arent where they say it is.

[Felidire]

Ah, yeah.. probably because there's like.. a dozen different versions of photoshop and every bloody time you get a new one you have to dig around trying to find where they moved stuff to. So the tutorials used to confuse the hell out of me as well.

It's really easy though, you just open photoshop, press Ctrl+N and at the bottom of that window it will say "Background Contents" and you set it to "transparent" and hit "ok."

then press "D" - which sets the brush colour to default (black/white)

Press Ctrl + Backspace to fill the current layer with white, so you can see better.

Once you've done all that, you're pretty much set up to draw, and if you can't find how to add new layers, just press "Ctrl+Shift+Alt+N" and it should add a new one; huzzah for hotkeys! x3

You do this stuff so that your lines won't be stuck to the white background, and then you can add colour inbetween the black lines and the white background (so it won't smudge or go over the lines when you colour it.) XD

[Azunara]

I'm off to Silent Chasm. I've just been doing a lot of grinding before I move on. So I'm taking care of side quests in Sinister Woods and Mt. Steel for a while, get a bunch of Reviver Seeds and Oran berries, then I'm off.

And I suppose I'll mess around with it later tonight to see if I can get something I approve of.

[Felidire]

I'm half way up Sky Tower at the moment. x3; I found that a good way to get rez-seeds is to just stock up on money and escape orb things, buy them from the store, go to a random dungeon and port straight out with the orb, save & repeat. XD

Also, I dunno if it's just me but i've noticed that my partner gets to learn all of these funky new attacks, waterfall, surf, cut, water gun, ice beam, ect... and all my eevee gets to use is tackle/frustration/return? =P

[Azunara]

Sol knows Facade? I dunno. I haven't taught Buzzard anything. Then again, I've only bought one TM. >.>'

Edit: Just saved Jumpluff, and have my team fully assembled. It is as follows:

Solara the Eevee
Buzzard the Charmander
Isaac the Magnemite
Soundwave the Yanma (<3!)

Found yanmas in Silent Chasm and finally got one of them to team up with us. It was amusing to watch Buzzard try and chicken out of the rescue mission, consdering how not-Buzzard that is. xD Off to Mt. Thunder after, you guessed it, grinding! And finding more pecha berries. :p

Moooooar ediiiiitssss....

So. Uh. Unless I'm missing something, my art program is incapable of opening PNG programs. So uh. What now? Or are you not supposed to be able to open PNG and I'm an idiot and don't know what I'm doing? Like usual?

[Felidire]

I'm assuming you guys will either have .jpg or .bmp file extensions, so we'll probably just change our .png image to jpeg after the next person adds something. x3

Edit: if you're not sure how to use layers and stuff, then it kinda defeats the purpose of using .png so yeah, any standard format like jpeg should be fine. ~

[Azunara]

Yay! I can totally function on jpeg!

And yeah. I'm...really clueless on this artsy computer stuff. Frankly, I'm surprised I get by as is. O_o

Edit. Again. I really do need to stop with them.

Picked up my shiny enteis in SS and Diamond. Still miffed I can't rename them, or at least not in Diamond. And...One day, I'll figure out Friend Codes and how to trade and stuff and mess around with that lot.

And do something competitive battling or somethin' and get my tail handed to me. D:

[Moonlost]

I can always just re-upload mine as a jpeg for you Azu, if that would make things easier. :3

[Senna-Umbreon]

Update incooooooomiiiiiiiiiiiiing~!

WAUGH MOAR BLACK AND WHITE STUFF. ARGH I AM WAY TOO OBSESSED WITH THESE GAMES. ARGHHH WHY CAN'T THEY COME OUT SOONER?! CDVBHGFSJKGJHYUFVG


Aaanywho. I've been having a few.. Problems with my team for Pokemon Black. AIN'T THAT A SURPRISE?! >.< Of course, once again.. I don't know what the heck to use one my team. Sure, Mebukijika is amazing type-wise... But urgh, I dunno why, but the Pokemon itself.. While really really really awesome, it just doesn't seem to fit with my team. For some odd reason, I'm unable to use a Pokemon unless it works for me along with my team. To heck with awesome type synergy! It needs team/Trainer synergy too! WAUGH!!!!

Soo.. It's back to the drawing board.. .... *Looks around* Perhaps a little input from you guys? My mom isn't exactly the biggest help on this, as she doesn't play Pokemon (YET! *Cackles*)

My planned team is...

Daikenki (Pure Water type)
Shandera (Ghost/Fire type)
Terrakion (Rock/Fighting type)
Denchura (Bug/Electric type)
Kojondo (Pure Fighting type)

So. As you can see, I have two Fighting types. Not the best, but oh well. But because of that.. I'm really trying to avoid having the last Pokemon share a type with one of the others. Having two different types stacked on the same team..? No thanks.

I have had a few ideas so far.. Which are:

Gochiruzeru (Pure Psychic type)
Mebukijika (Of course.... Normal/Grass type)
Erufuun (Pure Grass type)
Yanakkie (Pure Grass type)
Kenhorou (Normal/Flying type)
Waruvial (Ground/Dark type)
Shinbora (Psychic/Flying type)
Shibirudon (Pure Electric type (Has the ability Levitate, though, so it won't be stacking weaknesses))
... And Cobalon (Steel/Fighting (Yes. SO MANY FIGHTING TYPES. But.. Oh well? At least it's not stacking two different types? >.<))

Yeeeeeep. Lot'o Grass types, due to their ability to take out Ground, Water and Rock, which are types my team has a fairly bad weakness to. And yep, I do have a few Pokemon in that list that do kinda stack types.. But AGH I'm starting to run out of Pokemon here! *Flails*

Soo.. Yerp. Trying to figure out the last member for this team is getting pretty ridiculous. I honestly have no clue why it's so hard.... ... Maybe I should just go have to having Desukan on the team...

[Magnakilro]

How 'bout the Grass/Steel guy? He looks resilient XD

[Senna-Umbreon]

One problem... I couldn't care less about it XD

Yep. I'm kinda.. Picky when it comes to these things. And like I said.. It can't just be a good Pokemon for my team type-wise.. I have to like it too! XD

Little update.. I've been considering Waruvial. It is awesome <3 So.. It's a very good possibility.

[Azunara]

Sure, Moon. If that's not too evilly inconvenient for you, I'll take it.

Uhm. Sorry, can't help much, Senna. When it comes to Black and White, I'm fairly clueless.

Updates...

Uh.

I haven't touched SoulSilver in...forever.
Fire Red hasn't been played since I lost a good chunk of everything.
Diamond is also untouched for a while.
And PMD, I've reached a point where it's a lot of grinding, which I'm not looking forward to. So I just have to pick a game and shove through.

[Moonlost]

Pff, it's not inconveniant at all. Here you go.

[Azunara]

Ergh. I hate my bit, but I love it. Compared to your guys, it's awful. But, to me, individually, I like it a lot.

If it's not clear, it's an espeon. I figured it'd fit. I've always loved espeons (and umbreons, but Feli covered that aspect.) and an espeon was my first RP character on here that I've loved in a while. (I've also had a person say Azu looks a lot like an espeon. >.>;) so yeah. An espeon fit.

Finished my crummy bit. Whee.

[Moonlost]

I think it looks fine Azu Definately one of your best yet.
I may clean it up a little and confert it to PNG though. I'm thinking we just get people to submit their image and I (or Feli) places it into the group... Which is really whata we should have done before >.>

[Felidire]

Actually I really like it, good work <3; I think the pose looks great as well. =3

Here, I cleaned the background and widened it a little for whoever wishes to add their picture next.
http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/ ... 39wkcn.jpg

Edit: lol yeah, I was thinking the same thing.. It actually shouldn't be hard to convert these three back into .png the lines are fairly neat and the background is clean -- although our two guys were starting to get a little pixellated in some areas, I tried to fix that up.