#budny

As a sketchbook challenge to myself, I decided to create my own Pokémon region based on Pittsburgh. I drew 115 new Pokémon which I'm now working on inking and painting, and I plan to sketch out the routes, gyms and story elements as if I were designing a new set of Pokémon games.

(And not that I think Game Freak will be interested, but if they ever want to use any of my ideas, the only thing I want in return is a plushy of any Pokémon they want to use.)

For the first day, here's the grass starter Budny, the Cotton Bud Pokémon. Budny's evolutionary line is based on the cotton plant and the eastern cottontail rabbit which there is an abundance of in Pittsburgh. The three stages of evolution represent the stages of a cotton boll (the part of the plant that produces cotton fibers). Budny's name is derived from the word bud which a boll resembles and bunny.