FOREST MANOR

#391 Monferno

i got a screenprinting kit, and here's my first attempt!!

you’re in the pocket of Big Ball, I see

there’s no pocket for me to BE in, there’s no LOBBYING involved, there’s no SUPPRESSION campaign because you don’t need one! traditional methods suppress themselves when you make modern pokéballs available. you might as well start accusing AT&T of deliberately suppressing the noble traditional art form of the goddamn semaphore.

not to mention OP demonstrates a total lack of understanding of the market realities of the pokéball industry- Silph and Devon are not monopolies, if they weren’t in constant competition their magic monster domination spheres wouldn’t cost two bucks a pop. the ball spec is a public standard, and Bill Masaki’s storage system based on that standard is an open-source project. they’re only the two largest players because they’re able to leverage economies of scale. you still get smaller operations like the Laverre City Poké Ball Factory, with better regional supply chains and local brand recognition, making room for themselves in the market. 

That notion was, and remains, a tool to limit general access to Pokémon in the interest of maintaining class disparities. I mean, have we already forgotten the Aether Foundation’s pseudo-conservationist nonsense? Their attempt to manipulate natural resources and establish a power base in Alola, while they were modernizing and taking their place on the world stage, was founded on this exact rhetoric of “rescuing” Pokémon from local disenfranchised populations, as if taking Pokémon away from places like Po Town would improve things instead of increasing competition between trainers and decreasing safety.

The release of the $2 pokeball meant that the balance of power shifted to the common citizens. If any child can wield the power of a god, the military and the government and the wealthiest businessmen have no power over them.

More than that, instead of power being determined by the wealth to acquire pokemon, power comes exclusively from the dedication, effort, and empathy required to train them to high levels and to maintain their loyalty. If a person simply buys their pokemon, then those pokemon will either stay at low levels forever, or refuse to obey the human because there is no respect between them; the most powerful people in the world are those who caught a critter at level 2-5 and then devoted their life to raising it into a world power.

forcing myself to make literally any art bc i havent in 3 months and my mental health is in a cray z state rn.

it feels like im relearning how to draw but we ball ?

The screenshots from Pokemon ZA do not do it justice. AZ is tall, that is a fact. But you don't understand. AZ is a tree; he is a tree of a man. People think XY fans are joking when we say he's 10 to 12 feet tall. No, we are not kidding about this. Here are screenshots of him from X and Y. He barely fits in any screenshots. In relation to height, he is the inverse of Mario in New Donk City.

His original and new renders only depict him kneeling and sitting cause AZ standing would make the image's aspect ratio 900x1800 px

In his new render. He is sitting in a chair made for an average-sized person.

Just to add the cherry on top. Here is a leaked height chart from pokemon masters that compares him to several other characters. Including full-sized adults.