dont think i'll be active here anymore sorry

Wholesome and badass

The father’s artistic talent is clearly on display here, but I’m actually really impressed with this kid’s wild imagination. Many of his drawings are both conceptually unique and coherent.

please note what I assume to be clarifying notes, like the one pointing out the electricity in the last image- these aren’t doodles, he has a strong concept he wants to communicate.  He likely talked with his dad about what he was trying to draw, which would explain the much harder transitions you see occasionally where a concept carries over highly faithfully but significant design elements are changed.  This kid has a potential future as a character designer or mangaka, especially if his dad teaches him how to draw.

Yeah that’s my favorite thing about this. It’s not “tracing over my kid’s drawings but with nightmarishly hyperreal coloring and shading,” the dad actually tries to capture the spirit of what his son wants to draw but can’t due to lack of experience.

firestar’s owners watching him run off into the woods: there’s nothing we can do now; he’s a protagonist

A California common scorpion, Paruroctonus silvestrii. It had recently shed its exoskeleton, hence the temporary ethereal glow of its soft new armor.

Beedrill and Vespiquen

Spiritomb.

Purugly, skuntank, camerupt, and klinklang

Banette and Ferrothorn. I think Glalie already got confirmed which makes me happy but my other two faves are still potentially on the cutting board ;n;

el gee bee tees rb this with your favorite face emoji in the tags mine is 😖

i got excited because gamefreak put out a statement in response to fans mad about them cutting a ton of features in exchange for "lol big pokemon" but their statement was literally just "get over it". like ok fuck you too then

something that has been bugging me lately and that has been confirmed by the handling of sword and shield is that pokemon games are literally just becoming something game freak tosses out there every year hoping people buy it because they introduce 1 (one) new gimmick and roughly 70 new pokemon rather than take the time to like substantively increase the gameplay quality. but literally cutting old pokemon from the game in exchange for Big Pokemon and like a handful of overworld pokemon scattered about a really gray and empty low poly landscape is just really disheartening.