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The smeargle community

Today was your first day as an official member of a community you had heard of a few days ago. You, along with every other member of the community, had always had a passion for art, and had always wanted to show your work to the rest of the world. You wanted to show the community your future works of art, and even get a slight recognition too.

You were the painter pokémon smeargle, an artist. And you wanted to unleash you imagination and show your piece of work to this community.

But you decided not to be hasty, and took a stroll through the seemingly endless chambers to watch other paintings painted by other smeargle. It seemed rather hard to navigate at first in this gigantic place, but thanks to some unexplained magic, it was possible to sort out which pieces of arts you wanted to see.

Unfortunately, the magic didn't allow you to sort out the masterpieces. You shrugged; you couldn't have everything. You felt a little nervous, even though you had navigated the community as anonymous smeargle and viewed some of the art. You remembered how some pieces were beautiful illustrations of pokémon like Lugia and its aeroblast attack. The perfection, the brilliance, the setting. Must've taken ages to achieve such skill to illustrate that very move to pure perfection, you thought, still remembering the piece of art you gawked at for hours.

Thinking of that magnum opus made the tip of your tail tingle, and some of the yellowish paint seemed to ooze from the tip. A smeargle's paint colour from the tip of its tail varied from smeargle to smeargle, but usually that wasn't a valid argument of how well one painted. A true artist never needed to have a special colour. A true artist could create a masterpiece without paint.

You think over your last claim, and laugh silently to yourself. As you strolled down the corridor, you watched the freshly put up works. Some are pretty good, especially for first-timers, you thought, taking a few looks at the illustrations of different pokémon and their attacks. To your frustration, only a select few were complete at first glance.

Whereas some of the incomplete ones had a touch of brilliance in them, the vast majority of them were… well, not that good for your tastes. But you shrugged and decided not to leave a mark on it.

By marking a piece of art was equivalent to leaving a comment. There were different type of markings, and it was easy to tell who had placed them. If the said marker was a member of the community, that is. Sometimes you would find unidentifiable markings by individuals not members of the community, but usually they weren't a bad sign.

But leaving a bad mark never was a bad thing, since it could very well be a sign of improvement the painter of the art could take notice to. But you felt far too inexperienced to consider making those kinds of marks. Plus, they seemed very rare around here.

You decided to take a look at that marvellous Lugia aeroblast illustration. You headed through the magic sorting corridor and stumbled upon it. You gawked at it with awe, and noted that everything about this piece was perfect. No lines drawn wrong, no colours coloured wrong, and the sole reason the legendary Lugia executes the fantastic attack. It made your nerves tingle with excitement by just looking at it. And, of course, it had a lot of positive markings.

Having finished watching the piece that inspired you to make your own, you walked off to take a look at another legendary illustration. You found one illustrating Mewtwo. While you thought this piece portrayed the psychic type's use of the attack psychic, you could spot some notable mistakes, such as some minor lines being out of place, but it wasn't anything too serious. But this fine piece of art didn't as much markings as the Lugia piece had.

But you liked it, and decided to actually leave a marking, and a positive one.

This piece had a mysterious, yet a powerful feeling in it. Greatly done, but some lines at the top seemed out of place. Still, you did a good job.

You placed the marking and took the liberty of looking at the previous of the unusual few markings. There was only one of the five that had noted an error you hadn't found, and that was a shading error of the lower part. The other four (your marking was the sixth) didn't say much else than it was good. You shrugged and figured that you had said your thing about the piece, and walked on.

Searching for other pieces to stimulate your free time, you stumbled upon some more incomplete works. Every now and then, the artist would paint a section to add to the whole picture, and when it would finally be complete. How much that would be added varied from artist to artist, but there were some pieces that turned out to become very big in the end. But the size of the illustration was never the vital part of it.

Having looked at the newer updates of various illustrations, you decided to use the teleporting mechanism available only within this community to take a look at much older works. As you checked the older works, you saw some with potential that seemed to never be finished, which you thought was a shame. After having looked at some unfinished works, you actually found some of them really, almost in class with the Lugia piece. You sighed; 'twas a shame that fine piece would never be finished, seeing that the last time another piece of it was added was a long time ago.

You straightened yourself up, and resumed your search for more art to stimulate your desire for studying fine art. You had decided to make sure to see what the average standard of the art was in this community, so you wouldn't make a fool of yourself. After all, you were new.

However, you stumbled upon a painting that was supposed to symbolize an eevee. But there were so many faults in this piece it made you angry. First off, the lining was completely wrong and a lot of the lining was horribly inaccurate. The size of the eevee seemed awkward, with the head being too big, and the background wasn't even close to detailed. And the COLOUR! Why was the eevee coloured effing WHITE?

You facepawed, and was about to leave a very negative marking about this piece. But you hesitated. This piece was already rather old, and to your surprise, finished. And you could see some negative markings about it, so you decided that leaving a mark would be equivalent to keep saying that two plus two equalled four over and over again.

You grumbled a little before walking onwards to find another piece of art to soothe your mind after looking at that horrid piece. You were out of luck, and began to stumble upon more bad works, such as extremely cheesy illustrations of love stories. While you weren't much experienced with love and such, you knew that pokémon wouldn't mate at THIS low age. And the lining of the illustration was almost as bad as the eevee one.

You gave up, and felt that if you tried searching for more art to stimulate yourself, you'd only end up finding bad art. So you called it a day and left the community, heading home to your own place.

I'll try to create something new, you thought as you lay down on your bed. I'll try to create the piece of art that will give me recognition at the smeargle community. And with that thought, you went to sleep, and after next day's daily chores, you'd use your free time to begin your self proclaimed masterpiece.