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OddPenguin β The Great Pokemon Circle of Types
Published: 2012-12-27 17:35:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 10876; Favourites: 246; Downloads: 599
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originally was planning on holding off sharing this until new years, but eh, if it's done, why not share it ?enjoy, 88 pokemon total, all types included except normal (which is the center logo, and I don't really consider it a type, more like a lack of a type, plus, 17 doesn't divide well in a circle, so it had to be turned into only a symbol.
there's a pattern to the placement, one side super effecting the other
> = super effects < = super effected by
water > fire
bug < poison (generation 1 only)
ground > electric
ghost < dark
steel > rock
dragon < ice
fighting < psychic (messed up the pattern here, whoops >3<)
grass < flying
this really was a blast, and nice to have a good standalone art for this account now.
I geared toward placing types I like more on the outer circles, but types it super effected/get super effected by ending up having to go with them, so far as my type preferences it's jumbled.
for the type icons, some are from the card game, but the rest i had to make up. ones I made up are ground, rock, ice, ghost, flying, bug, and poison.
types that super effect have their badges on the left, types that are super effected have their badges on the right.
as for pokemon picking, mostly it was based on pokemon I like, but also did pokemon I figured would be cool to do in this style and such.
almost all of them you should (or I hope at least) be able to easily tell which pokemon they are. the only one you may be unsure of if in the dragon circle that's latios or latias. it is latias, and you can tell by how the head piece is, which is slightly different from latios far as where the eyes are and how they're shaped [link]
I based the spots on the primary type, which eliminated options in some of the circles, but kept the type of each wheel more focused
enjoy
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oh ho, thanks, glad you think so
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PURE EPIC WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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oh ho, thanks, glad you think so
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It's an amazing circle!!!!
I've seen it like three weeks ago and let it in the message board until I could comment
Seriously, is an amazing job and I loved the colors, the simplification of every pokemon (Is that the right term, isn't it?) and also the geniality of weakness/fortify of the circle. Just great!
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oh ho, thanks a lot, and glad you'd save it off for when you could comment instead of just x ing it out XD
thanks, was really fun coming up with each style for each pokemon ( that's a good term for it yup), and yeah, some types made the circle tricky to pull off, but it worked out in the end
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A little question, which is the PokΓ©mon in the Fire Zone at the right, in the start???
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heh, glad you think so, thanks ;3
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No problem! But seriously that's so cool man.
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*gasp* I found Scizor, my favorite! 
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oh ho, awesome, and glad you like it :3
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this is incredable this must of taken you ages!
I love the style, the way you've drawn them, i LOVE how you've coloured it all.... this is amazing!
i cant wait to go through your gallery
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whoa nelly thanks a ton , glad you really enjoy it. it actually only took a week, I was surprised too, thought it'd take much longer when I planned it out and totaled 88 pokemon needed for it. But I just worked on it on and off, a few here and there, next thing you know it was done
oh nuuuuuuuuu , there's a lot of ancient relics in the depths of my gallery I'm embarassed about that I made earlier on when I joined. for serious though, thank ye, been a while since someones skimmed that far back into my gallery, I see comments from ya on some fairly old stuff XD
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Your very welcome!
thats incredible 88 pokemon!
an yeah i love going through people's galleries cos i know how much it makes me happy when my stuff gets comments especially the old stuff 
lol yeah i must of commented an forgot to bloody watch you
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heh, indeed, I tend to do the same when I can, and heh, I do that as well too, or folder off a nuzlocke I want to start in my inbox for a looongg time
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My first thought upon seeig this was Mayan/Aztec calender-type things. Really cool
Seriously, how long did this take? It's hard to pick a favourite, but I really like the whole electric wheel, Typhlosion, Whiscash, Donphan and Metagross. 
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heh, all the hype about that apocalypse made me feel like doing that sort of style for this.
took about a week working on and off, semi long but not too grueling, just worked on some then took a break, then work on some more.
oh ho, glad you picked out ones you like more, was wondering if people were going to point out ones they like more
sweet, thanks a lot, aiming for more unique pokemon fanart
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This is so amazingly mesmerizing............ O.O
LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!
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oh, super glad you like it, thanks :3
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no problem. it is truly spectacular!
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This is amazing! So much detail in every little piece of the circle.
I really like how you designed an symbol for each type, even the ones that don't have their own. And style is so cool too, like prints or mosaic tiles.
Great job~
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oh ho, thanks a ton, fun trying different approaches with each pokemon and circle, and yeah, though I don't personally like all the type symbols I came up with (ghost is ehhhh, but I couldn't come up with something better), but overall I feel they do what they need to do. heh, yeah, kind of got the idea to do them like that from all the hype of the mayan circle lately and that apocalypse thing that never happened XD
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Cool. I wouldn't have guessed the Mayan calendar to be your inspiration, but they do look similar now that I look at it.
Lol all that apocalypse hype, there was even a movie made about it, but nothing actually happened
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yeah, I mean, we've been through several apocalypse claims in the past 11 years, time we got used to nothing happening for them XD
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Well, first off, I think this really deserves some serious admiration. Like for real. This was a wonderful idea and now that's finished it looks really effective. All those Pokemon looks wonderful in this style. It all looks like some ancient property drawn on a wall of some ancient ruin. 0.0
And one big "Well done" for finding difference between Latios and Latias expect for the color and eye shape. I didn't noticed until now that they have different shape on their heads and that it's differently positioned.
But one thing kind of bothers me. Not in some amount that should worry you (you could call that "Lepto's problems in head" or similar). You chose a circle as a composition element and it's wonderful. You almost executed it in a perfect way to go with the most important symbolism of a circle. Circle is a perfect shape, always described that way and usually holds that symbolism. I can see you understand that and that you tried to arrange types in some meaningful way, which you mostly succeed to do - you arranged them by effectiveness when one observe it with eye moving in a swirl pattern (or if you observe from up to down: "stronger" type -"weaker" type- "stronger" type - .... -like you explained in a description) or differently said, they are related if we look which type is positioned next to which. But what kind of bugs me is that they are not exactly related by which is positioned above/under which. It goes water-bug-rock-ghost-steel-dragon-fighting-grass, no specific order right? I tried to combine types so they are in relation when watching from all directions but since I'm kind of suffering from a lack of time and energy I gave up with a conclusion that there are too many possibilities to combine types by effectiveness (I also tried with pairs different from yours) and some of them give certain problems (to be specific-dragons with only one weakness except of their own type) so I didn't catch enough time to play with combinations. I'll try again tomorrow during ride home since I'll have plenty of time and if I come up with something I'll let you know if you want. This little puzzle quite intrigues me right now.
Maybe I'm splitting hairs with this. I don't know. It's just that when someone say "a circle" to me my first association is "perfection" and when you decided to use circle you had to be aware how tricky that could be. If it's executed good enough it becomes pure perfection. But now that I saw this "lack in perfection" I just can't comment with saying that this is perfect. 
Nevertheless, I think this is an outstanding piece of work. Whole idea is amazing and I can see that your brain works on some very interesting wave lengths. You didn't placed them randomly which is one big plus. I would just say that you didn't arrange them enough. I love to think that you had the same thing on your mind but just as me you couldn't mix that pattern in as well. :/
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oh man, really quite the detailed comment, thank ya. heh, yeah, with all this blah blah about the mayan circle and stuff, figured I'd do a sort of oriental like circle.
fun fact, this was actually originally going to be a pyramid, with types I liked more higher up, and types I didn't like down lower. however, a pyramid shaped deviation leaves a ton of blank space since submissions are always square, so I decided to do a circle.
the stronger weaker relation from top to bottom is the most meaning I came up with, but far as types next to each other like water/bug/ground/etc, those are just placed more or less on types I like more being further out in the ring, not really any relation or meaning in how far they are out on the circle. I wanted to do lots of water types, hence why they're on the outermost circle. limited in how many steels I could do drastically as I was only choosing by primary type, so they ended up closer in the circle. this was pretty much how the thought process went, I spent some time formulating the circle type placement, but not a ton, and I didn't flip around a bunch of possibilities like types next to each other also having a relationship.
I would be interested though if they're were a flowing relationship possible with all the types though, so if you come up with one let me know, I'm curious. probably wouldn't do another circle for it, but interested in knowing.
oh gosh of course this is not perfect, nope, not by any means, and not just because of arrangement either. the amount of blacks in each is very unbalanced and all over the place (banette draws my attention much more than it should for example), while I made dividers between the pokemon on wheels, I didn't make or use dividers between the wheels, so spacing on borders not all the same. some of the patterns I got a bit lazy on or lost the symmetry. so on and so on. super thanks for the feedback though and really quite interesting how much it became a puzzle to ya.
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I didn't mean you will make a new one. That would be kind of wasting time since you already did this and devote your time to this.
I tried and tried but I couldn't make a circle where types would correlate when reading from all directions. Dragons have that stupid one weakness and Ghost-Dark types are so closed with weaknesses and super effectiveness -.-; They kind of bothered me the most.
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yeah I know, just brought that up as if there was a perfect way to balance em then I'd consider it.
and yeah, a few of the types just mess it all up, I even had to use a super effectiveness that was only in gen 1 (poison super effecting bug) to make the circle work for me
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Jeeeeeeez this is so cool
dude
I love this stuff. This is too cool.
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super thanks, it was a fun project and glad I got to finish it XD
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How long did it take anyway?
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eh, on an off working on it for about a week. it started out taking longer, but then it picked up a lot to speed once I got the hang of it. the top half of the circle was almost all done in a day.
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I spy Manectric. :3
Love the tribal imagery, it gives it a cool relic feel.
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yes you do, that spot was almost a luxray in fact, but changed my mind there as manectric would be easier/look cooler in the style
thank ya, I felt it was kind of maya ish too when I was working on it >3<
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Yeah I'm sure my ADHD and laziness could never let me complete something like this
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heh, it's all about just working on it a bit a day, not all in one sitting
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I love the wheel concept for this.
But I'm confused with Bug and Poison. They don't affect each other too much.
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thank ya,
in gen 1, poison super effected bug [link] (click on type, and under battle properties offensive, you'll see it for gen 1) . poison doesn't super effect bug anymore and only super effects, but each type needed a pair, and generally I wanted to keep the types I liked more farther out on the wheel, so bam, went with the super effective from gen 1 for that part
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Woah, that's mind blowing! amazing job on this, all the pokemon are in such detail, love it @U@
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oh ho, super glad you like it that much. now here, lemme help you fix that mind, you got bits and pieces of it blown all over
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Why thank you, I tend to get my mind all over the place when I see this kind of art XD
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certainly one opf the msot original pokemon art i've seen until now. excellent idea you've got here
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thanks, someone suggested I do a pokemon pyramid, and while I scrapped that idea it gave me the idea to do this circle. it was a fun project to work on too
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you're welcome, i can easily imagine it was fun indeed ^^
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they'll have to do their best to cope with it >3<
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I shall try so very hard! I'm going to need some sunglasses for it :3
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