#cdstudios

An Explosive Introduction!

First art post of the yeaaaaaar

Gift art I made around the holidays featuring friends' OCs! In order, they are: Marcy by @cdstudios

Nate by @famimatsu

Macee by @maxmmpow

Rezz by @ZetabusterDX (Twitter)

Individual images under the cut!

[Text reads from Julia: Oh I got an idea, if lucario had a regional variant/evo/paradox form what would you come up with]

It's extremely basic but my default concept is a fighting/psychic or fighting/ghost type that leans more into the concept of Aura than martial arts, with aura visibly bursting out of limbs and such. I tried to pull a bit of influence from depictions of Anubis by changing how the hair tassel things drape and by trying to loosely mimic a shendyt with the fur (which itself was an idea inspired by Mega Lucario), but I think the concept needs more work.

I think to evolve you simply need a Riolu with high friendship at night, or maybe specific locations with high spiritual energy or something, like Pokemon Tower in Lavender Town.

I think what I really drew though was a basketball variant and this boy's ready to shoot some hoops