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>>7627353
Picture making is tough. The thing I don’t like about that thumbnail is that there’s no sense of scale, everything feels like it’s between 1 and 4 arons in size, so the environment ends up feeling small. Maybe try sketching out the environment first, and from there you can place the active characters however you like and move the camera around.

Why not study the original source and how they handle illustrations? After all, if you’re doing fanart, there’s probably something you really like about it. A simple example: Ken Sugimori often shows the trainer physically interacting with their pokemon, and honestly, that looks really cute to me. He often merges both into a single shape. The Capsule Monsters concept art is also really charming.

As with any illustration, define your foreground, middleground, background, horizon line, floor, and walls. And thumbnail a lot, it doesn’t matter if they’re messy. The purpose is to explore ideas, not to make something pretty.

Seriously this channel is golden for illustration.
https://www.youtube.com/@PhilsDesignCorner