#tamakubi

I’m sorry, Smeargle fans, please do not rip me to shreds-

I based my Smeargle redesign off of an African wild dog, also known as a “painted dog”. They really missed an opportunity here.

I also know it’s a big risk picking a single stage Pokemon to redesign. But also. I told myself ‘the 18 color variations will make up for it’. And also the fact that the redesign is based off a highly endangered animal that many people do not know about.

I don’t know if it made up for it but the point is I tried okay

Also yes, I did come up with different color combos for each and every type, and even included a few of Frogcroak’s Pokemon redesigns to interact with some of the Lycrilic variants. They change their type and color depending on what move they last used, because... I think it’d just be neat for my Smeargle redesign to come in multiple colors. I mean I love Alcremie. Minior looks cool. ... We don’t talk about the satanic butterfly.

I kept the beret because I had to look up why people associate artists with berets and found out ‘it’s because they’re poor’ and that is very much true today, so I kept the beret, but made it kinda... double as like... a paint... palette....

Lycrilic is a combination of ‘Lycaon’ (the genus name for the African wild dog, but also the African wild dog is the only living member in that genus soooo) and ‘acrylic’, because it’s a type of paint and it’s also the only one I know how to use.