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Pokémon eggs!

There are around 60 unique species eggs that have been depicted in Pokémon. The images below are from settei, game screenshots, manga screenshots, and official art.

*Note this ignores the "GO-style" designs, as eggs in Journeys are the base egg with coloured spots

Images are from Bulbapedia and the anime settei

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Monster Buddies Update

Many formulas are complete! All ability lookups, move lookups minus damage, nature info, the opponent lookups, some of the party lookups, and Trainer Icons.

This is really hard, since the formulas get pretty complicated, so I have an interesting method to make it easier to make changes and bug fixes, as seen below. Each variable or calculation is made with referencing on the left, then I take each variable and bake it into the formula on the right. That formula is then used on the final sheet.

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To hold you over

I've been working on art to post, but it's taking a lot longer than expected. So here's some drawings of Ben 10 aliens I did a while back and don't feel like cleaning up.

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Heppi (hep-ee)

Draco foemina

Heppi are a Drakonic species with an humodoidal upper body, and serpentine lower body. Female Heppi average at about 15 feet (4.6 m) from head to tail, displaying as about 6 feet (1.8 m) tall. Male Heppi are smaller, averaging at about 10 feet (3.0 m) long and 4 feet (1.2 m) tall. They are covered fully in protective scales, with specialized ventral scales. They have feathers cresting the top or sides of their tails, also behind their ears. They have long hairlike feathers on their head, with some having plumage across their jaw.

Heppi have a collection of infrared pits under their eyes and at the ends of their ears. Their ears have bones at the top—called a helix bone—which support their pits. Their tongue is forked, and their teeth are sharp. Their jaw bone is fused, so they are limited in the size of their prey. To aid in breathing, they have a series of holes for gas exchange hidden under their tail feathers. They are a very abundant species that doesn't rely on magic.

Heppi typically eat a variety of small mammals, reptiles, and insects. Individuals may eat fruits and mushrooms instead. They may choose to starve themselves to eat larger prey, although that isn't common since refrigeration became popular. Heppi will use specialized digging claws to help them hunt.

Heppi men have small spurs on their hips. Heppi women typically are dominant, since males have long been treated as unintelligent and aggressive. Heppi can either breed, or reproduce with parthenogenesis—female only asexual reproduction. The women then dig holes filled with terracotta to lay their eggs—usually only one at a time. They'll take soft sand from water pools to fill the hole. Women will take care of the children until puberty, when the males are abandoned. Females are raised into adulthood. It is no longer legal for Heppi to abandon their kids, but it's still a problem.

Heppi treat water as sacred. They refuse to waste any, but they find large bodies of water frightening. Because of their biology, they cannot breathe when their tail is submerged. Furthermore, there is an ocean with massive amounts of wild magic which solidified their fear. Collecting sand for their eggs is considered a rite of passage for new parents.

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Official Pokémon Art

For my Pokémon TTRPG system (currently called Monster Buddies) I am looking at correcting official artwork for different Pokémon. I'll breakdown my process, using Bulbasaur as an example.

I start by grabbing the artwork from the Japanese Pokédex site . This is so all artwork is the same 570x570. Any artwork not available there is taken from other sources and resized if needed.

The first thing I do is grab any settei I can find. These come from a variety of sources, including Lewtwo's Asset Archive, Worth Point, Ebay, Tumblr, Twitter, Bulbapedia, Youtube, Settei Dreams, The Cutting Room Floor, and the Teraleak.

For gen 1 Pokémon I search for inconsistencies between depictions, and determine the "best" design philosophy for the Pokémon. I try very hard to determine what changes are intentional, and follow those. For Bulbasaur, my brother pointed out how the head should be connected to the body smoothly. Another note is how the spots are very inconsistent between depictions. Because of this, and since the official art is similar to other depictions, I opt not to change it. For Bulbasaur, it only requires one line to be removed.

I then look at the colours. I create layer masks to section off each colour. I also apply a grayscale gradient map to get the colours right. I find a base colour, usually referencing the anime, unless the colours have been shifted (looking at you Ivysaur). I sample many different colours across the original art, and I decide which one to use as a base. I use simple math to convert from one colour to another, use it on all sampled colours, and apply them to a gradient map. This lets me keep the lines black and the whites bright. I do this with each colour, and eventually get the design I want. I really wanted the colours to be more accurate while maintaining the "natural" look with the slight desaturation.

I've tried many methods, and this is the one with the best results. Another benefit is I can use this to make the shiny colours and variants. Below are the results (shiny is still wip since I hadn't finished this process when I made it).

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Pokémon Customization (Background)

**Note: this is based on memory and information I could find. There may be mistakes, but I attempted to minimize them.**

Most people don't know this, but Pokémon has planned dress-up features for Pokémon a few different times.

In the Visual Round of the Gen 4 Contests and in Gen 5's Musicals you could take different accessories and place them on the Pokémon's sprite. This makes sense in 2D, since it's simply placing an image over the top. But that wouldn't work for 3D Pokémon.

We see a small update to dressing up in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, although it's handled very differently. Cosplay Pikachu is a female only special form of Pikachu introduced for the Contest Spectacular. You can change her form to get different outfits, with each form having a special move.

We don't see dress-up return until Gen 7. Sun and Moon adds Cap Pikachu, which is a set of new forms that cannot be changed. They are all male and get access to a unique Z-move.

Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon has the Alola Photo Club. This is a return to form, allowing you to add stickers, much like Gen 3 & 4. It's not really a dress-up system, but it's somewhat similar.

In Let's Go! Pikachu and Eevee you can dress-up your partner Pikachu or Eevee. Your partner can wear glasses, an outfit, a hat, and/or accessories (like ribbons). You can also change their hairstyles by petting them certain ways. This is accomplished with 3 techniques:

Model swaps. Like how the gender difference tail works, the top of the head has a cutout which allows different hair models to be swapped out.

Texture swaps. The clothing is merely a texture added to the base Pokémon model. It is possible to accomplish this with models however.

Model nodes. Glasses, ribbons, and hats are separate models that are merely placed in specific places, determined by nodes in the armature. This is the same way that the Terastalization hats work, with scaling for the models.

All outfits appear throughout the game, which is a lovely addition.

Finally we have cut content. Firstly, assets found in the USUM model of Dugtrio showed signs of customization (modeled accessories)—I believe related to the Photo Club. It was later fully seen via the Tera Leak, showing a system that would've affected all Pokémon. It worked by having models and textures that were placed on specific nodes, like in LGPE. Certain document also point to the possibility of having accessories that match the player's, although whether this would apply to all accessories is speculative.

We also see a tattoo system in the scrapped game Pokémon Rodeo. This places a texture on the model, although it's unclear if it uses predetermined positions, or if it can be placed anywhere.

Images from Bulbapedia, Serebii, and modified images from Lewtwo's asset archive.

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Pokémon Variation

One thing I've been working on is a variation system for Pokémon, inspired by Magikarp Jump and Pokémon Stadium. Here's how it works.

Each Pokémon will have 4 variables, each with 8 normal options. This gives us 4,096 unique variants for each Pokémon. For use in my TTRPG, variations are decided with a d20. Options are broken into groups:

Base — This is the option which is present in the original design. 20% (1-4) of the time, this option is picked.

Common — There are 3 common options, each at 15% (5-7, 8-10, & 11-13). These are supposed to look closer to the base design for the colour variant, like a tan Rapidash.

Uncommon — There are 3 uncommon options, each at 10% (14-15, 16-17, & 18-19). These are further away from the base colour.

Rare — This is a mere 5% (20) chance. This is the most different to the original colour. For example, black Rapidash.

Each variable is rolled separately, meaning each Pokémon is most likely to have the base variants, but is also likely to have at least 1 variant that isn't the base.

Base Colour

The base colour of the Pokémon would affect the major colour of the body. Each Pokémon is grouped together based on shared attributes. These Pokémon then use the colours of the group as the available options. Currently the groups are thus:

Plant-like

Flowering

Wooden

Cactus

Flame

Aqua

Natural

Dark

Toxic

Electric

Ground-like

Icy

Pink Thing

Rocky

Gemstone

Ghostly

Mushrooms

Metallic — silver, steel, platinum, cobalt, gold, brass, black iron, and pearlescent

Equestrian — tan, cream, brown, red, white, light gray, gray, and black

The specific colours can be spread differently between the base, common, uncommon, and rare options based on the different species. Also, Shiny colours always override the base colour.

Pattern

Patterns are given individual names to make them easily referenced. Both the colour and pattern will show on the Pokémon's summary (black-spotted for example). The pattern styles will be shared between all Pokémon (although I'm open to this changing):

None

Gloomy

Saucy

Stripes

Blanket

Painted

Blaze

Spotted

Only colour and patterns are available.

I think having special patterns that only appear during certain times of the year would also be fun. These would be in addition to the 8 variants here. For example, a spooky pattern for Halloween, or a lovely pattern for Valentines day. They would override the patterns when generating the Pokémon in game. I also would like Magikarp and Feebas to have a bunch of extra patterns.

Variation 1 & 2

These are species specific variations. Stuff like different types of horns or scars. It's very dependent on the specific Pokémon.

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Pokémon TTRPG

My girlfriend told me I should be sharing updates of what I'm working on in general. So here's something I've been working on. I'm making a Pokémon Table-Top RPG with the express intent of mimicking the feel of Pokémon's video games. All designs are intended to be fully translatable between the games and this system. So if a Pokémon is added to one game, or a change is made, the system can accommodate.

This is for my DnD group, so I'm making spreadsheets to be used as Character Sheets, with everything auto-populating. It's still very much a work in progress, so many things may be lacking. I want to go more in depth on my progress in another post.

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Inktober Day 1, 2025

It's late, but who really cares. Here's the prompt list I'm using.

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Well. Good on me for keeping up with this lol. There's always 2026

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Inktober Day 1, 2025

It's late, but who really cares. Here's the prompt list I'm using.

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I sketched this out back in 2020. I finally coloured it. oof

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Kotys, Philotes, Kinza and Yesewi thumbnails Philotes and Kinza are not my OCs

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OC Lora

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OC Gold

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Random Octopus OC

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An old artswap with @pink-p0pcorn-art

I did the colouring, they did the line art. There's another piece where I did the line art, but they'll have to post that OvO

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MHA oc: Miss Misery Quirk: Empathy Constructs. Miss Misert can convert her emotions into an black aura to create low-density constructs. Her constructs must have a physical anchor-point, or it'll fade into nothing. It's harder to control the more emotional she gets, with the way it becomes unstable changing based on the emotion. She mainly uses it to propel herself and to grab things from afar.

This is the first of my art from this year I'm posting :)