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Palkia Pokedex page OLD VERSION

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Even if you won't read whole description, please at last read this:

It's only a try to share a concept I plan to continue in future. Not even soon; it's mainly because my computer is simply NOT CAPABLE OF SUCH WORK.

I focused more on the idea rather than artwork, hope you don't mind and enjoy.

Thank you in advance

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 :iconwalloftextplz:Pardon for wall of text, you can skip to part where I listed my inspirations for this realistic Pokemon design
Artist's personal commentary about this W.I.P
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Ladies and gentlemen who clicked watch button on my profile, hope you enjoy the "spam" that I would keep for eternity among computer files,
fooling myself I'll ever finish them :icontotodilederpplz:
For serious, I hope I'll manage to deal with them as still improiving- I'm drawing faster and faster.

Not to mention...I will never stop drawing and sketching, my head has too many ideas.

If you saw my realistic concept notes and even reptile Pokemon evolution workout...you shall know I have a big dream and I try to find final concept
of creating such natural sci-fi science as I LOVE to share my fascination to wildlife, but there's the trouble...my computer and its limits.

I can work on high in quality single drawings, but a file that starts to get a lot of layers(mainly because of text counted as separate layer) is too much to handle.
I even had to split my mentioned reptile Pokemon evolution into two files to continue, because computer hung few times while working on it further!
...yes, that's why even if I can already add snake Pokemon part to it because I did it in my personal Steelix/Excadrill sketches, the fact I have to combine two parts together, open first part, close, then open second, save and export long time...it REALLY discourages me :X
AND SAVING IS HELL IMPORTANT. But when it takes 2 minutes....GEEZ, nobody can imagine that, even someone with such patience like me. :iconheddeskplz:

I have a dream...to make realistic Pokemon Pokedex, because come on, it's just what I love.
Write down my ideas around Pokemon which is mainly my fascination to wildlife, mainly prehistory :D

While working on few certain Pokemon OC reference sheets I realized they became way too swell ONLY because of explaining their species.
But I can't help it, I have to write down this big part too to make people understand what is OC's natural behaviour, what is it's personal part
an what unique natural abilities they have- like Drapion which can literally see attack from any direction!

Let me say something, because A LOOOT of people know and are fans of Arvalis realsitic Pokemon.
I have my two cents. I'm happy to see the "boom" of something that was rather rare when I started to look for this part of fanart and I won't lie,
it was annoying to see realistic Pokemon being most of times the zombie version of them. However, there was some diversity among those who ever drew
realistic Pokemon. Something now I see is dissapearing.
Many artists who got developed drawing skills try to copy Arvalis sheet...AHEM, PARDON ME, but there is HUGE difference between being inspired
and being inspired in first second and trying to follow, copy something.

As an artist, even if not professional, I just want to express myself.
At the moment my idea is overhelming and quite impossible if I can't even deal with my dream of sharing my story around Weirda Mirrart OC,
who got somewhat forced to start a journey where with her attitude to understand Pokemon World from their side, she will even discover
some shocking facts that many simply don't believe or are sceptical. Not to mention artistic interpretation on many things.

Patreon...I've heard about it. It IS tempting, it could be REALLY useful to me. However, as naive as I am,
somehow I'm rather sceptical from being modest to jump in. At last not yet.
First I need to manage dealing with working on all those ideas I want to share...and just keep doing what I love
- and unfortunately for part of you, I prefer working on my story and Pokemon OCs, because I prefer artistic mood and sharing deeper thoughts
rather than just draw something that because of computer limits won't hit best quality level. Not to mention, people prefer almost photographic
level of artwork and more Pokemon-like animals than Pokemon with inspirations from real life.
Favs and some talks I've had speak by theirself.
I'm not ready yet to try keeping up with such project. Not yet, but I'm thinking about it- money from patreon would really help me
even with having better standard of life and hopefully help get better hardware.
Who knows, I just have a dream, but everyone gets its things in its time.
AND I'M SLOW, NOT A ROCKET LIKE MANY PEOPLE IN MODERN TIMES.

Coming back to my dream of sharing my story around Weirda Mirrart...this Pokedex project would be her work.
I think it IS important to introduce people first to the story, because of my personal headcanons of poke-universe which affect this Pokedex.
If you wonder why, you probably ignore artistic soul of mine.

Same as I thought up that Weirda Mirrart found a great book in one of Kalos library which inspired
her to make reptile Pokemno evolution. Same as I have one belowed book which inspire me to make
alternate dinosaur evolution when I was young.

Seriously, if you ask WHY: Pokemon games are about adventure and feelings we often get as well as people
loving with them. MANY Pokemon are based on mythological creatures. Why ruin it. Why.
Let me try to make you feel something behind those Pokedex pages if I'll do some.

OKAY I'M BIIIG DAYDREAMER HAHA XD

Btw, the main pic(even if it's not finished) of Palkia is from my Sinnoh backstory when cyrus summoned both
Palkia and Dialga. One of the reasons why I decided to work on the story as backstory is my level of drawing skills
AND not enough good software to make animations. I imaginate Palkia surrounded by flowing water circles around it.
I can't even do a loose sketch of this :roll: and what about an animation, because I've got inspired by soundtrack "intrepid spirits" by Q-factory
with summoning scene of Dialga and Palkia.
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Realistic Palkia's apperance inspirations:
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- Gigantoraptor. I always saw an oviraptorid in Palkia and after discovery of Gigantoraptor, I've got PERFECT reason to go with such idea.
Giant oviraptorid is not too far-fetched :la:

- ostrich feathers on wings for weird armor on Palkia's arms

- "wings" always were something that left me unsatissfied, because they don't look like wings and Palkia can't learn HM Fly, not to mention such weird shape.
I've tries in past to interpret them as wings...untill now.
I've got kind of revelation when I looked again at weird plumage of modern birds. The greater bird of paradise is my inspiration here.

- grey peacock pheasant feathers got marvelous spots which inspired me to make Palkia's "pearls". Maybe none of feathers can hold on
water droplets, but feathers got complicated structure, so please forgive me for creativity and sci-fi speculation that mutation could create
structure which could be hydrophilic. Some butterflies evolved hydrophobic structure on their wings or lost scales for same reason(glass butterfly),
nanib desert beetle got modified structure of their shell. I have open mind, because even some people "predicted" in paleontology few things.
Evolution is NOT programmed change, there are just mutations that turns out to be benefit.

- talking about mutations, 5 spurs might seem unreal, but there are birds who got two on their wings and rarely there can be a domesticated bird
like turkey who got THREE, not one spur on their leg. It's just mutation. Same as some people are born with sixth finger.
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art and Palkia concept belong to me, Marta Kłeczek.
PLEASE, please respect that I've spended over an hour to do lots of research for making this concept.
Simply credit me if you'll draw it, it won't hurt- unless it will hurt your ego.

Palkia belong to Pokemon, Game Freak
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A-Zetka's avatar
Cudowna jest Twoja palkia. I tyle w temacie. Skoro nie wygląda jak megazord/transformer, to jest cudowna.:icondummyloveplz: