A process video for my gym leader drawings! I wanted to go for a minimalist and shape oriented look so I tried to push the contrast in sizes of the hands, heads, torsos, clothes, etc. Keeping the minimalist theme going, I tried to limit my colors to 2-3.
Kabu (fire) and Nessa (water) were the hardest to translate as their designs had a lot of detail going on. The Nessa drawing came out as the least consistent as I went in to too much detail and it just gave her a bunch of visual weight.
There was also the problem of losing the recognizability of a character by the omission certain details (like the graphic designs on their uniforms and some of their accessories).
There were also some bits here where i’d copy paste certain characters. I wanted to have a certain scale to them and I also wanted to keep the saturation and shade of the color palettes consistent.
All in all it was a fun exercise nonetheless.