I disagree...
I think the absol ear/horn worked very well. The weakness (if there is one) of this piece lies with the human. He definitely needs to be there, but I suspect you've draw more creatures than people in your artistic career.
Reviews for "Let's Beat the Elite Four"
Wonderful!
I rarely look at art, and the art I look at I rarely review, so just the fact I'm writing this is a compliment. I love absol-lutely everything about this! That was a really bad pun, sorry. Well, almost everything. I wasn't quite in love with the Absol, though. The ear/horn combo didn't work, and it had a rough quality to it, almost like it was unfinished. I liked the eyes, and that's about it for the Absol. The Arcanine made me want to go play with my dog. That thing is one adorable, stupid lump. And yet, still badass. The Pikachu was cute as hell with the goggles, and that Zangoose was Chuck Norris in pokemon form. It will wreck your shit. And I think everyone did a double-take at the Gardevoir. I'm actaully gonna say it. Is it wrong that this gave me a boner? Sorry.
Anyway, amazing art, amazing concepts, amazing team, etc.
I'm actually going to look at your other stuff. I never do this.
Nice Picture
I am not sure they would make the elite 4 (they are all under used pokemon), but their personalities are great... never knew that absol and arcanine were related to each other. I half expected to see a magickarp in the waterfall.
Gorgeous.
Just like everyone else has said, this is simply amazing. I was hoping I would be the one to point out the Team Rocket Zangoose, but I will point out the gorgeous looking Gardevoir. That's practically a hentai quality Gardevoir! The team itself is very balanced. You have a psychic, fire, flying, dark, electric, and normal type. Each and every one of the Pokemon have their own personal details about them and all of it together makes this portrait magnificent.
I'd use that team
Love that the Arcanine has hetero-chromatic eyes, I found all the eggs, Altaria was probably the toughest. My only gripe is that I don't like that Absol's horn is growing out from his ear it just doesn't seem...right, that being said overall he is amazing as is the rest of this piece, especially love Pikachu's goggles and the fact that the trainer has several different kinds of Poke balls.