An interesting piece

Simple in the presentation, effective in the finished product. I think that there is a lot to be said for your expanses of white in this piece, with only the pokeball being the focus of attention. I know that some people really did have an infatuation with this game which quite passed me by. These things happen, but you've quantified it with a good anecdote, which is how people go about winning things like the turner prize. They waffle on about something that hasn't required much effort and people think that they are absolute genius in this medium.

Personally, I think that it's a decent copy of the original, but you could have made a better effort with two areas:

1) Colouring. Outside of the outline of the ball, there appears to be a mark of red past the thick black outline at around 2 on a clock face. When there is very little else to look at, this will become glaringly obvious.

2) The shadow needs to be longer and more rounded - you'd end up with more of an elipse shape, surely, but this is a matter of opinion, as it is really difficult to determine where the light source emanates from, with only that shadow and the light spot on the ball to go by. Taking those two, I would have said somewhere toward the top right of the shot, thus giving a longer shadow.

With little else to see in the image, it is a good replica of a concept that has been around and done its time, but I would have liked to see more from this in the way of a background or some action. Perhaps the ball should be gathering dust?

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As Haggard said...

...Not sweet memories for me. Every time I saw Pokémon on the telly, I quickly switched to another channel. That doesn't mean I don't know what a Pokeball looks like, though :P.

The colour scheme is exactly like the one of a Pokéball, and I really liked the lighting you did. When it comes to the shading, I think that the Pokéball's shade should be a little bigger, but other than that, really good shading.

As for the Pokéball itself, as Haggard said, next to the white shine, there's a small part where the red skips the outline. Other than that, I can't complain about the Pokéball. Maybe you could add a Pokémon background or something, instead of just a simplistic Pokéball at the bottom of an oversized canvas.

Well, this is probably one of the smallest reviews I've ever written since I joined the Review Request Club, but there isn't much to say about this :P. Just work on making the canvas smaller, adding a background, maybe making the shade a little bigger and fixing that tiny nitpick that Haggard suggested. Keep up the great work, and sorry for any typoes; I'm in a hurry and didn't have time to proofread the review :\.
9/10
5/5

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As good as it could be...

Hello,

I think you nailed the pokeball,
and the placement of the image does stand out quite a bit.

There isn't a flaw I can pick out at all, it's as good as it gets in my books.
That said the reason I'm not giving you a ten is the image is too simplistic,
and fairly easy to do, so I wouldn't feel right giving you anything higher than a 7.

Still nice work though!
Thanks,
- Celx
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Sweet memories?

Not for me. Well, I have some sweet memories, but Pokemon isn't one of them. By the time the whole pokemon fad came to my country I was in an age where I felt "too old for this kids' stuff" (you guessed right, I was still pretty young, but tried to act mature ;) ) so I never really got into pokemon.

Anyway, the drawing looks very nice and quite realistic. I was almost tempted to take the ball and throw it. ^^

The light effects on the object are drawn very good and also the shadow looks very realistic. There's a tiny spot just right of the "white light dot" where the red colour crosses the outlines, you may want to fix that.

Also, why such a big canvas for one small object? Maybe you should edit the picture a bit next time so we don't have to stare at a white canvas so much. :P

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hahaha

I'll tell you what dude, when I read the title and then scrolled down only to see a mear pokeball, that really did bring back some good times dude. Nice background story too. You've officially made my day.