HOME | DD

Description
This is my entry for SkarmorySilver 's 600 Watcher Contest! The contest can be found here . #eyspyredesigncontest

The originals are on top, and the shinies are on the bottom. I tried staying close to the original shiny coloration with mine. I'll post text below for each design's description;

Eyspy: My idea with Eyspy was to find a way to more organically include wings. I chose the colors I did to represent the veins you find around an eye, but also to start up a kind of "primary color" theming I use a bit throughout the evolutions. The Prism on the back of the eye is actually where these vein-like appendages come from, which I think of them more as lights. The prism is gonna play a major role in the upcoming redesigns of Eydolon and Eyphanim.

Eydolon: I saw the original had a different material making up the tip of the pyramid, and when looking into the origins for Eydolon; "The Eye of Providence", I read that the eye would be placed over an unfinished pyramid, looking down on the unfinished work watching as it grows, referencing that the (nation, in the reading's case) is still growing. I thought that was perfect for a middle evolution, but I did think that moving the eyes around would mess with the design, and I also thought the eyes on the body looked really good. So to keep that but to give the pyramid's tip significance, I turned it into a floating prism. Not only did this give me the "unfinished pyramid" that the Eye of Providence has, but this also allowed me to change the wings, which is something I wanted to do to try and make the designs feel a bit more "light type". Not that they were bad before, organic wings were fine, but by bringing a prism into the design, I could then take the wings, which were already connected to the top prism, and turn them into actual strips of light. I originally thought about using basic primary colors, but then tried Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow, which I think worked a lot better for the design. I actually made this design and Eyphanim, and then retroactively changed my Eyspy design so that there would be more consistency throughout. I think putting the prism on Eyspy allows for more of a natural, or at least understandable shift into a pyramid.

Eyphanim: Alright so THIS one was a doozy. I basically did a complete overhaul, where the first two were close enough to the originals, I felt like in order to make this new direction work with Eyphanim, I needed to dissect and reconstruct the design. I looked up a lot more images of ophanim for inspiration, as well as a little bit of galeem from Smash Ultimate, as it's got a very similar vibe going on, but was also a bit more simplified than some of the ophanim images I found. I kept the prism floating above the eye with the light wings outstretched above, but the pyramid is no longer there, and instead we're greeted by a large eyeball floating in the middle. I took the pyramid and turned it into a shawl/wings, with eyes adorning the entirety of it. I felt like it was a good way to include multiple eyeballs, while also having the eyes feel like a pattern as well to avoid clutter with the design. For the prism I really wanted to keep it in tact to reference the pyramids floating above and below the original Eyphanim (Though I did remove the bottom pyramid). I also have the shawl for Eyphanim wrap around to the back and connect like a ring, referencing the golden rings of Eyphanim while avoiding just putting a bunch of floating rings around it. I felt like the design needed to flow and look at least slightly more organic to feel like a pokemon. It can move it's shawl around when attacking, uncrossing the wings on the front or even extending the ring above it's head for more powerful attacks, appearing almost like a traditional angel's halo. I struggled a bit figuring out the perspective of the "halo tail" in the front facing shot but eventually I got it and let me just say that I am absolutely thrilled with how this design turned out. I love it so much. Oh and one last thing, I used an actual pokemon as a base for this design. Not to model it after, but just to compare it to, and pull energy from. And that pokemon was... THIS! I did also look up Florges for a little bit of an idea of how to introduce a new type (which I still argue that line does misleadingly, it TOTALLY looks like a grass/fairy type). But yeah, that's all I've got on these designs, this is the last of the set. Wish me luck in the competition!

Description
This is my entry for SkarmorySilver 's 600 Watcher Contest! The contest can be found here . #eyspyredesigncontest

The originals are on top, and the shinies are on the bottom. I tried staying close to the original shiny coloration with mine. I'll post text below for each design's description;

Eyspy: My idea with Eyspy was to find a way to more organically include wings. I chose the colors I did to represent the veins you find around an eye, but also to start up a kind of "primary color" theming I use a bit throughout the evolutions. The Prism on the back of the eye is actually where these vein-like appendages come from, which I think of them more as lights. The prism is gonna play a major role in the upcoming redesigns of Eydolon and Eyphanim.

Eydolon: I saw the original had a different material making up the tip of the pyramid, and when looking into the origins for Eydolon; "The Eye of Providence", I read that the eye would be placed over an unfinished pyramid, looking down on the unfinished work watching as it grows, referencing that the (nation, in the reading's case) is still growing. I thought that was perfect for a middle evolution, but I did think that moving the eyes around would mess with the design, and I also thought the eyes on the body looked really good. So to keep that but to give the pyramid's tip significance, I turned it into a floating prism. Not only did this give me the "unfinished pyramid" that the Eye of Providence has, but this also allowed me to change the wings, which is something I wanted to do to try and make the designs feel a bit more "light type". Not that they were bad before, organic wings were fine, but by bringing a prism into the design, I could then take the wings, which were already connected to the top prism, and turn them into actual strips of light. I originally thought about using basic primary colors, but then tried Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow, which I think worked a lot better for the design. I actually made this design and Eyphanim, and then retroactively changed my Eyspy design so that there would be more consistency throughout. I think putting the prism on Eyspy allows for more of a natural, or at least understandable shift into a pyramid.

Eyphanim: Alright so THIS one was a doozy. I basically did a complete overhaul, where the first two were close enough to the originals, I felt like in order to make this new direction work with Eyphanim, I needed to dissect and reconstruct the design. I looked up a lot more images of ophanim for inspiration, as well as a little bit of galeem from Smash Ultimate, as it's got a very similar vibe going on, but was also a bit more simplified than some of the ophanim images I found. I kept the prism floating above the eye with the light wings outstretched above, but the pyramid is no longer there, and instead we're greeted by a large eyeball floating in the middle. I took the pyramid and turned it into a shawl/wings, with eyes adorning the entirety of it. I felt like it was a good way to include multiple eyeballs, while also having the eyes feel like a pattern as well to avoid clutter with the design. For the prism I really wanted to keep it in tact to reference the pyramids floating above and below the original Eyphanim (Though I did remove the bottom pyramid). I also have the shawl for Eyphanim wrap around to the back and connect like a ring, referencing the golden rings of Eyphanim while avoiding just putting a bunch of floating rings around it. I felt like the design needed to flow and look at least slightly more organic to feel like a pokemon. It can move it's shawl around when attacking, uncrossing the wings on the front or even extending the ring above it's head for more powerful attacks, appearing almost like a traditional angel's halo. I struggled a bit figuring out the perspective of the "halo tail" in the front facing shot but eventually I got it and let me just say that I am absolutely thrilled with how this design turned out. I love it so much. Oh and one last thing, I used an actual pokemon as a base for this design. Not to model it after, but just to compare it to, and pull energy from. And that pokemon was... THIS! I did also look up Florges for a little bit of an idea of how to introduce a new type (which I still argue that line does misleadingly, it TOTALLY looks like a grass/fairy type). But yeah, that's all I've got on these designs, this is the last of the set. Wish me luck in the competition!