Arts and Tarts

Won't mind at all.

Oh, and Victreebel is there too.

furthermore, drawing women are difficult, more old news at 11

Played Polished Crystal, another romhack that improves the original Crystal game with features from recent generations, but also implements other features like new areas and a restored Kanto region. Went with the non-faithful versions that also changed base stats and typings on various species, hence why Sunflora earned a team spot.

Two of my designs for Smogon’s recent CAP project, where they’re going all out to create three starters. Their typings are Fire/Ground, Water/Bug, and Grass/Electric, but I only managed to draw the former two. Based on shooting stars / star-nosed moles, and diving beetles / atlas mythos respectively. Neither won but the bugger reached top three, so that was nice.

Just played Pokemon Coral, a romhack of Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal which aims to recreate the feeling of Gen II games, so that naturally intrigued me since that's probably my most nostalgic generation. As you can tell, there are a lot more Pokemon available than just from the first two generations, so that made deciding on a team difficult with each new route you explored. I tried to stick with their GSC palette but in the end I cheated a bit to create a better lighting.

Got sick and started a replay of Sun, but here’s a drawing of my first team, always try and stick to new species for my first run each gen. From top to bottom: Shredder, Claymore, Clawshanks, Baskerville, Heartburn, and Skyward.

For a Smogon’s Flying Press article about good mons (although somewhat unused) in the 1 vs 1 metagame. Saw Relicanth among them and decided to draw a duo with it and Rhyperior. Tried breaking away from my usual style but ultimately didn’t, hue.

Favorite Pokemon, reporting in per usual. Thought about turning these into fanmade cards like my previous entry, but turns out that Magcargo got a good reprint recently, so it can’t complain.

Went through old images on my computer and found pics of a few buggos I’ve never posted anywhere, so ‘ere ya go.

Each row represents the team he has depending on how many badges the player has, and another row for postgame rematch. Seeing how I’m gonna attempt drawing a gym leader for every type, some other conditions may come into play, just doing it for fun for now. Some leaders will have their own official gyms, some may be challenged when certain requirements are met, and others could be “roaming” leaders with no permanent location, with Miles belonging to the last category. Interesting to think about, but how it’d work in practise is another beast.

Drew another gym leader. Granbull is my fav fairy type so thus I had to draw a trainer that could fully reflect its natural charm. Had to edit his appearance various times since I still can’t get body proportions right and but also because Wulfric exists. Also unsure if Biker is an official occupation, would love everyone’s undivided support on this matter.

Another illustration for a directory on our hub for Smogon’s art forum, this one related to articles and guides written.

We have an information hub for Smogon’s art forum, this is one illustration I made for its Miscellaneous Art directory.

Fun little thing I drew for a Smogon article that focused on Flying types in OU.

Notable moves: Crunch, Knock Off, Pursuit, Parting Shot, Dragon Tail, Dragon Hammer, Outrage, Autotomize, Hammer Arm, Superpower, Iron Head, Heavy Slam

Like any Pokemon fan worth their salt, I felt implored to check out Pokemon Quest once it dropped on Android. Pretty terrible game, but compelled by the allure of using otherwise terrible Pokemon and big flashy numbers, I managed to beat the last story level with the above team, so say hello to Rubik the Golem, Bismuth the Muk, and √ the Exeggutor.