Since I decided to do all of this evolution on the F side of the Pokédex, I figured Gloom should be next. Gloom is a Pokémon with an odd sort of appeal that I wanted to try and highlight. I think its petals can be read as a cute sort-of hairstyle, and I’m always fond of Pokémon with these thick visible lips like this. I’m not sure if everyone will get it, but I hope some of you enjoy her.
Also, for anyone interested, here’s the Q&A video I did for Subscribers last month:
I’m sure most of you are aware that there’s a running gag in Pokémon where James will crossdress whenever Team Rocket is trying to trick Ash and his friends. It doesn’t happen every time, and sometimes Jessie will also crossdress or sometimes they’ll just both be women. Regardless, he has a number of iconic looks through this gag that I’ve never done anything with, and I thought it’d be fun to change that. I went with this gyaru look he uses early in the series when giving Ash, Misty and Brock tickets onto a cruise liner that drives the plot for a few episodes. Both James and Jessie looked great in this disguise, I think, and I wouldn’t mind doing something with them as a pair with this disguise at some point. Originally I had James with just an anon, but I was trying to think of a good partner who’d like this look. While I don’t remember Todo having a specific interest in gyarus, they don’t seem that far outside his tastes, and James as a woman is both on the taller side and has a big ass. So I went that route to make it more interesting.
While working on this, it occurred to me that James’s crossdressing is a bit reminiscent of Bugs Bunny. Hopefully y’all will know what I mean, but something about the way they both adopt characters and disguises the audience is meant to see through but other characters can’t has a similar vibe to me. I’ve been thinking of doing some sort of pic series inspired by this tenuous connection, but I can’t promise I will. Maybe something where they’re both using different iconic looks to bring in studs in the Studio, like a competition. I’d be interested to hear if anyone would like something like that.
It’s been a minute since I did a First Shoot, and I think it’s because I’ve kinda burned out on the concept. The last poll we did for this series resulted in another three-way tie, the first of which is Purah here. I think once I finish these three shoots I’ll take a bit of a break from this series.
Purah’s a character I like a lot, but was always hesitant to draw just because I figured her design would be a pain to work with. I was right, of course, but I’m happy to have done at least this much with her. Her partner here feels like she couldn’t be more random (which of course she is), but I think they make an oddly nice pair.
I kinda had an itch to do something with one of the monkey-like Pokémon, and Aipom just seemed like kind of a fun option. I like the idea of him using his tail to set the pace of his trainer’s thrusts.
I haven’t done too much taking my Near Pokédex versions of Pokémon and pairing them up with established characters from the original franchise. A couple of the trainers in that series resemble characters loosely, but really there’s no named human characters from that universe. I figured our resident Nurse Joy might get something out of comparing these more anthro/human Pokémon to the ones she knows, and decided to take that route in answering this question.
I recently did Vileplume for this series and was pretty happy with the result. The other evolution option, Bellossomm is another obvious Pokémon that could translate well into something lewd, so here she is. It may not be right away, but I think I’d like to try Oddish and Gloom for this series sometime down the line as well.
While I’m pulling from any ol’ era for this series, I am trying to get more of the original 150 Pokémon done when I can. Zubat occurred to me recently as a potentially fun candidate, so here one is.
I went back and forth on weather Zubat should have arms with bat wings coming out of the back, or just have bat wings for arms. While I haven’t gotten around to any bird Pokémon yet, my plan for them has always been to go the angel route over the harpy route, so I applied that logic here.
The Clefairy entry is one of my personal favorite early Near Pokédex F pics, so I figured I’d go ahead and do her evolution in Clefable. It’s always satisfying to wrap up an evolution line (at least, the original version of the line), and I hope y’all will enjoy this version of Clefable.
Nidoran’s a bit of an odd Pokémon. With as many as their are now, I could be wrong, but I think they’re the only Pokémon with separate Pokédex entries for their males and females. They didn’t really know how to handle things like gender or breeding in the early days, so instead of just having males and females that look different we have two unique evolution lines. I did a Nidoqueen for the female side a while back, but now here’s a male Nidoran.
Continuing our annual tradition, here’s another Studio Christmas party! I had a couple people I thought would look really good in Santa outfits, and a few others I just wanted to draw. I’m really happy with how this year’s party turned out, and I hope y’all will enjoy seeing a handful of Studio residents living it up!
