#trainer orange

@pikatrainer99 's Orange doodles!!

It's not perfect by any means, but I tried my best. The colors are orange, red, and yellow because those are Orange's favorite colors since they remind him of his bond with Red and Yellow. The locations are Viridian Forest (yes I know it’s just three trees and it looks bad, but I’m not good at drawing trees, especially not bunched together), to represent his true home, and Mt Coronet to represent Sinnoh, his current home. There's Poké Balls in the outer circles because Orange loves Pokémon so much. Orange is holding the Keyblade I designed for him a few days ago, which I also posted about if you haven't seen that yet, it tells all about the Keyblade and what each design aspect represents and all that stuff. As for his pose, I went with Sora's pose as a reference, it's not perfect, but I tried to replicate it best I could.

The characters in the circles up top are Thunderheart (for obvious reasons), Yellow (because they have not just a strong sibling-like bond, but they're also literally eternally connected through the power of Viridian Forest, there’s a thing in my fanfic universe called the Viridian Bond which Orange shares with both Yellow and Thunderheart since they were all born there), and Diamond and Pearl (his first human friends). I didn't have room to put Red or Platinum unfortunately because Stations of Awakening have four characters per Station. I chose to omit them because while Orange has a strong bond with both of them, he's known Yellow longer than Red and Diamond and Pearl longer than Platinum, so I thought this decision would make most sense for his Station of Awakening. Lastly, the bright glow effect over everything is to show the Light in Orange's heart, he has a lot of Light, so his Station has a very bright glow to it (that doesn't mean he doesn't also have Darkness, because he does, his Light is just much more prevalent than his Darkness which is why it's what's represented on his Station. His Darkness though is best shown when his trauma takes over and causes him to lash out in a blind rage at the enemy...Charon being a prime example of this, though usually when this happens he is horrified upon learning what he did and regrets everything, because he's dead set on following what Yellow taught him: to use his powers for the good of both people and Pokémon. He CONSTANTLY says that his powers are supposed to HELP others, not HURT them, as he knows exactly the kind of calamity they can cause if used for evil thanks to Yellow telling him about Lance and what he tried to do).

I have to thank my amazing friend @darlingeryx for helping me learn how to do some things for this piece...including how to achieve perfect circles, as well as how to create a really strong glow effect, without their help, I wouldn't have been able to do this, because I am hopeless when it comes to using ibis Paint X. That's why all of my art is so basic in terms of lineart and coloring...I can't do much else with the app. I said to Eryx, "I can't ibis Paint X" when we were discussing how to do these things as a sort of joke, as well as a Sora quote (he said "I can't computer" in KH3), but I really am bad at this app, so I was also being serious. So thank you Eryx, for all your help, your tutorials really saved me a lot of stress. I'm so lucky to have such an amazing friend like you. ❤️

This took so long to draw you have no idea, plus it was my first time experimenting with filters and effects on my drawing app, Ibis Paint X, to make the electricity effects!

This is Young Orange (specifically his four to six year old self), aka the scrappy lil guy who will fight and defend himself and the Pokémon of the Viridian Forest from literally ANYONE (and was taught how to fight BY the Pokémon themselves which is why in my stories he goes COMPLETELY feral when he fights), so combine that personality with strong electric powers and you've got a Pikachu you DON'T wanna mess with! His electric powers as a Pikachu work the same way as his Viridian Forest powers as a human work, so they get stronger with his emotions and they're amplified tenfold if he's in Viridian Forest itself.

I made his eyes glow because again, using power, but it's electric power this time since he's a Pikachu, and used the blur tool to achieve the glowing eye effect, as well as the glowing cheeks. I made his little hair antennae/ahoge/whatever you wanna call them into lightning bolt shapes this time (instead of the usual sticking straight up as a human) to reflect his electric typing as a Pikachu, and his fur and the top of his hair are BRISTLING with both electricity and hostility since he's ready to fight! I drew the tail facing upwards instead of the normal facing back pose since I felt that the tail facing up gave off more of a battle ready vibe, like he's saying, "Warning, warning, I WILL attack if you come any closer!" Making the bristling fur took forever, and it was so difficult to make it look right, but I'm happy with how it came out. And he's still got his red shirt on and the band-aid over his nose (but it's yellow colored because it's covering yellow fur and band-aids are translucent for the most part, at least the ones I use are) because he's literally just Young Orange Pokémon-ified, so I kept both of those for that reason.

For a mostly experimental piece, it came out pretty decent I think! Here's the pencil sketch as well if you're curious as to what it looked like before the digitizing and effects I added and stuff.

Drawing Red as an autism creature was really difficult...his hair and his clothes were NOT easy to adapt into creature form. For Orange the biggest struggle was the scarf...which I think I made a good way of making it look like it's wrapped around his big creature head...and I updated Dia's design to have his scarf look the same way. For Pearl I couldn't do that because of his high collar on his shirt. And for Platinum I tried to make her scarf actually look like it's trailing behind her like it does in the actual official art. Everyone's hair and bodies are white because that's the color of the TBH creature, so don't go complaining that everyone's hair color is wrong because it's literally just because they're in creature form this time around. As for expressions everyone has a little smile except for Orange who has the classic TBH creature blank expression. I decided to give him the blank look because he really struggles with identifying emotions and he either feels everything or nothing depending on the situation. Orange also has his fingerless gloves which I somehow was still able to draw the little Poké Balls on them...as well as the Poké Ball design on his shirt. Btw...It is SO hard to draw these characters in four-legged creature form because their clothes...ESPECIALLY Red's clothes...do NOT translate well to four legs...it's so weird and hard to draw. So I just stuck to each character's shirt and hat/scarf to make it a bit easier for me. I'm sorry if it looks all weird and wonky because of that but clothes just don't translate well to these creatures 😅

Eventually I would like to draw the Sinnoh Trio and Red normally...but I'm still trying to learn how since PokéSpe characters are hard to draw (for me anyway). The only one I've ever drawn is Yellow, and that was only ONCE in that one drawing where she and Orange were drawing pictures. I've drawn Yellow's head a second time and Red's head only once, but that's all I've managed to draw of PokéSpe characters so far. I will keep practicing though, I want to improve so I can draw more art of my favorite characters in all of PokéSpe!

(I just realized I forgot to give him ears on the 3/4 view ones...oops 😅)

The bottom three sketches where his hair is all spiky like Red's are his design when he's older (a teenager). It is so hard to draw though so it looks weird on the front view and especially the side view where it also flares out a lot in the back (but I'm not very good at drawing side view to begin with so...yeah 😅). Child Orange though is much easier for me to draw, so most of these are child Orange (including a side view attempt of child Orange as well which looks less weird than teen Orange in my opinion).

If you can't read the text because of my terrible handwriting, the grin has a "Hehe!" laughing sound above it, the rage face where he's speaking says, "If y'all hate this world so much why don'cha go back t'space where ya belong?!" (He's roasting Team Galactic here and Dia and Pearl are shocked hearing that come from the kid who, while he has a fiery temper, he normally doesn't talk to people he doesn't know or trust...but Team Galactic made him reach breaking point and he burned them good...and the best part is...that's not even the full quote! XD) The little confused/suspicious face has a question mark next to it for obvious reasons, and the one where he's holding up a Poké Ball says "Grrr...Battle! NOW!" (someone insulted his ability to be a Trainer and he's ready to prove them wrong).

I hope you enjoy these silly little sketches of Orange! Obviously I had a ton of time on my hands today to randomly start drawing all of these, and it was tons of fun! I hope to draw more Orange art soon!

This chibi Orange drawing was inspired by Komi Can't Communicate... particularly Komi's adorable bug-eyed/no mouth expression that she gets when the story is told from her POV. Since Orange goes through many of the same struggles as Komi, and is also always anxious around people, to the point of not being able to speak, only write, unless it's someone he's comfortable with, I figured why not draw him with the same expression as Komi. His whole body is also supposed to be really tense here too, which I didn't do a good job making clear in the drawing... oops 😅.