Scribbling on your soul

im George, im 30 University of Derby animation graduate. Im crude, vulgar and downright disgusting if i wanna be ive wrote things about a man giving a baby AIDs on his deathbed, ive done cartoons about David Cameron dancing to a severed pigs head and my friend trying to kill himself in the bath with a toaster. You know that sort of stuff. But i do other things check out my Social accounts all under GuroGengar. I can do normal stuff but why? So yeah wyd?

[wizardpotions]

I think I know where she is pal

[athena-cat-wizard-official]

[sabona]

[mawguai]

"You could make this place beautiful."

[bajablastoises-deactivated20260]

[hannahlockillustration]

Ditto with a parasol, based on Woman with a Parasol by Claude Monet (1875)

Drawing Ditto until I give in and buy a Switch 2....

[railroadlion]

Mega Swampert

[christinaisdrawing]

I am ready to play the Post-Apocalyptic Happy Pokemon game.

[greenfinchg-illustration]

Sorry I haven’t posted anything new in so long. But I’m a Pokémon now

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[quartings]

I can't stop watching Pokopia playthroughs.

[glass-conger]

Pray for me

[iopaosi]

Gecqua👍

[psuedofolio]

We will see our friends again someday, so we will care for this world they left behind. And I know they will be proud of us.

[vincenzonova]

I can't afford the game or the console to play it on, and I'm certainly not gonna buy one anytime soon, but god DAMN I love these idiots so much

[kaienmaart]

who let the dog drive the boat

[lemmydex]

#566 - #567. Archen cannot fly very well and rely on the air currents of Archeops to stay on air. Revived Archen and Archeops are not believed to be accurate to their ancient counterparts, as DNA gaps were filled with data from other fossils and living pokémon.

Sponsored by @psarahdactyls. Process under cut:

Prehistoric pokemon always have the hiccup of there not being a lot of material to study. Case in point, my archen studies were mostly just looking at what avialae we've have found so far and the paleoart of them, I took down some notes that I #lost oops, and drew a few things before I understood the basic concept of what I wanted to go for here.

After that I took reference images of modern birds and paleoart avialae and concepted a design body type for these two. I like archeops, but my main beef with it is that it looks too much like a Big archen, and that the rock type doesn't really appear much beyond the fact that its a fossil(tm) so it has to have it. I decided to play with mixing it up with other ancient fliers of the era, such as tapejara and gannets for the wing style and a different crest. The idea is that it'd be filling the gaps of a missing fossil.

After that it was just a matter of posing! I wanted them to be flying together, and i tried to make it so the crest texture felt like crystals to justify the rock type beyond them being fossils.

Also I drew this on the same canvas.

[asha-mage]

I think a big part of the reason Pokopia is hitting so hard for so many people is that we have had an absolute glut of post apocalyptic media that take the "humans are the monsters/disease/problem" angle. Even the most well meaning solar-punk I can think of often have this undercurrent of 'humanity's nature is inherently short sighted and exploitive and they must constantly be kept in check to protect the environment' which slides very quickly into 'the world would be better off without humans in it to complicate and threaten things'.

But Pokopia fully does not do that. The world is lonely without humans and lesser for humanity's absence. So much of the game is about how Pokemon miss humans and are struggling to make sense of a world without us, how the ecosystem is just as hurt by our absence as any other species, and how the things we left behind, even in ruins and burned shells, are often beautiful and strange and helpful to the Pokemon who find them.

Pokemon have always been this allegory for the natural world- back to the original idea of the games inspired by children who caught bugs and kept ant farms- and thus the relationship between Pokemon and humans becomes this allegory for the relationship between nature and humans. And Pokopia looks you dead in the eye and says "the world would be poorer without humans, and if we all vanished tomorrow the echoes of who we are and the things we did would still ring out for eons uncountable. We would be missed and mourned and searched for and the wound of our absence would be deeply felt on this earth for the rest of its turning. The actions of a few greedy short sighted humans will never change that."

And that. That hits.

[cuttledreams-bugs]

Finally drew the Bugs ✨ (plus a few friends)