As has become tradition, here is a compilation of some moments from this year’s Studio Christmas party. Hiro Hamada won the lottery to get chosen as the official Studio Santa this year, but as you can see he’s not the only one sporting the look. I had a lot of fun putting together this year’s party, and I tried to fit in an eclectic selection of characters. I hope there’s a little something for most everyone here, and I’d like to wish you all Happy Holidays and a Merry Christmas.
I’m not super familiar with a lot of the post-Sun and Moon Pokémon, but Inteleon caught my eye. It might just be due to the default expression, but I like this design and thought it’d be a good fit for this series.
I decided to go with Butterfree for the next Near Pokédex entry, and decided to take something from the anime. Now, this color scheme is not Butterfree’s official colors, nor their shiny colors. It’s also not part of Butterfree’s sexual dimorphism (although female Butterfree do have slightly different wing patterns). Rather, this version of Butterfree comes from some early adaptational weirdness in the Pokémon anime. You see, in an early episode Ash’s Butterfree meets a girl and leaves him to go presumably have tons of butterfly sex. Since Pokémon was still new and didn’t have as much established rules, the creators just made the Butterfree pink so the audience would know Ash’s Butterfree wasn’t gay. This weird miscolored Butterfree has returned a few times since then, but as far as I know she’s the only one in the whole world with this coloring. Like with female Charizard’s bow, though, I wanted to take something from the anime for my entry, so here she is.
So this is a really simple one, but I haven’t drawn Ash and Goh together in a bit and I thought this interaction would be cute.
Tracey’s a character I think is more-or-less forgotten, but I wanted to include him in this series. He served as a temporary replacement for Brock, and I think was the first shake-up of the main cast, something that’d become much more prevalent in later seasons.
Misty, Ash and Brock are a trio that I’ve only drawn all together a couple times, and it’s been a while. I also don’t think I’ve ever done a DP with them, so this Ask seemed like a fun opportunity to give them a little extra love.
Absol’s a Pokémon I always knew would fit in well into this series, but for whatever reason I never got around to it until now. Anyway, hope y’all enjoy!
This Ask is worded a little confusingly, but I think I got it. When I think about the type of guy who James would most go for, I see him as someone with a bit of a daddy complex. So I ran with that here.
While I haven’t played many of the newer Pokémon games, I did play Pokémon Y and had fire starter for that game. Braixen seems to have become the most popular stage of that evolution line, even though I remember really liking Delphox. Braixen got the big push by being a main character in the anime, plus (if I remember correctly) a playable fighter in Pokken Tournament (which I only played a bit of). Anyway, I thought she’d make for a good Pokédex F entry here.
This is a Mini Commission for one of my Subscribers. There was no mention of what sex the Iron Valiant should be, and it also seems like there’s no info on that from the source material, so I stuck with a sexless approach and just gave it a hole for the sex to happen in.
