PMD: Restoring the Balance

The Pokémon world is in danger. Signs have slowly been creeping up of an upcoming catastrophe that the inhabitants of the planet are not prepared to tackle. The legendary lake trio: Azelf, Uxie, and Mesprit have taken it upon themselves to seek out three heroes they believe can help save their home. Follow a human-turned Chespin, Mudkip, and Cyndaquil as they learn to work together to solve and stop the destruction of their world while facing many more challenges and dangers along the way. Author's Note: I'm extremely happy to finally be posting this comic! In case anyone wanted, my art blog is @kaidacreatorart, and my main blog is @kaidacreator. This is my first webcomic, so I'm pretty new to this and am still learning, so patience is greatly appreciated! Comic pages will be uploaded once every Sunday (hopefully).

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RTB Returning Soon!

Long time, no see! Just giving a heads-up that pages will be continuing again in January! I deeply apologize on the long wait for the story to continue!

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You are still alive? Or well?

Oof, yeah, I’m still around hahaha I do appreciate the check-in though! Been still posting some on @kaidacreatorart but mostly just one-off things and art fight stuff

I’ve been hoping to get back to uploads soon, but I keep putting it off dklfjasdlsaj Combination of being busy and slight lack of motivation ^^’

Sorry to everyone for the long wait on the next pages! It may still be another week or two before I am able to finish them, but appreciate the patience so far!

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100+ FOLLOWERS!!

Now that i’m posting again, I should probably acknowledge the blog’s passed 100 FOLLOWERS which is actually kind of insane!

To be perfectly honest, i thought this blog would have something like a 1:1 ratio of comic pages to followers, but we’re well over twice that!

I went digging through my old drawings from when i first started using my tablet and found a couple of things i felt worth sharing…

OOOOOOOF, check out this old piece of the team, the first digital doodle of them even, over a year old now. I also found…

A couple of scrapped fellers! Wowzah! So the Togedemaru was going to end up helping the Team on a job and end up tagging along with them for a while, basically becoming a temporary team member, before finding a place to settle. Ended up scrapping him because his role in the story he was introduced in and he did very little when with the Team, not really having a distinct arc or anything.

The Wurmple would have been their first “client”, making an unofficial job posting to help find berries he collected as a gift that were stolen. The story wasn’t really eventful enough and he wasn’t a very distinct character, so that all got scrapped.

Weird old stuff aside, THANK YOU! Thanks to everyone who’s been following my comic, so sorry again for disappearing for 2 months. The support I’ve been getting since the comic’s start has been really great, all the feedback and bits of fanart I’ve gotten has been AWESOME!

I hope everyone that’s been reading the comic enjoys what’s coming up, any feedback at any point is greatly appreciated, even if you’re hating it, let it rip! I can’t get any better if i don’t know i suck!

I want to close this with recommending a few blogs i follow that i think are more than deserving of some more love:

@pmdrestoringthebalance​ Is a Mystery Dungeon comic with some proper great art, like, industry levels. It’s going through a bit of a reboot at the moment but i think the older pages are still worth checking! The creator also interacts with their followers well and just comes off as a real nice and genuine person, so show them some love!

@myghostlydiary​ Is a sort of In-Character/Ask Blog centred around a charming Gengar girl. The blog was gone for a while, but is coming back. The art is very well done, it’s all very pleasant and I’m personally looking forward to what’ll come from it next.

@tikki-makes-art​ Posts some good drawings, they been posting some cool Animal crossing stuff recently and take commissions at a fair rate. Give it a look and if you like what you see, consider the for a future commission.

Again, big, big thanks to my followers, hope everyone’s well with all that’s going on. Stay safe!

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Congratulations, dude!!!! That's an awesome accomplishment and you are entirely deserving of it and more! The comic has been super funny and enjoyable, and I've loved seeing every update! You've been such a cool and friendly person to chat with too, and you have a super positive presence in the community!

Everyone here should go check out the comic! The art is super clean and expressive, and it has a ton of personality in it!

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Art Fight 2020!

Hey everyone! I’ll be participating in Art Fight this year! Last year was my first year and it led to a lot of improvement in my art. I had a ton of fun too, so there’s no way I’m missing this year either!

The team themes this year are Sugar and Spice. I’ll be joining Team Spice!

You can find my art fight profile here~ Feel free to send an attack at me! I always try to get a revenge back. Friendly fire is also welcome. For anyone confused, you can learn more about art fight here. It’s basically an art trading game.

Also! My friend Leo created a small discord server for Art Fight where we can plan out attacks and chat! Feel free to hop in if you’d like as well! Here is the link to that! (and while you’re at it, check out the pmd blog he co-runs @team-discovery-pmd :P)

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Will still be trying to work on updates during art fight (finally done with classes), but feel free to attack me if you plan on participating!

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Discord

Hey folks!

I’d like to take a second to promote The Creator’s Guild - a really chill pmd server I’m in ^^ Lots of other really awesome pmd content creators are there as well ^^

Invite link here

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Apparently Weavile is a popular candidate for villain boss/leader characters in PMD comics… whoops… mildly regretting my decisions daslfdkjdlk

From left to right, weavile belong to: @pokemon-explorers-comic​ @pmd-hellfire​ @pmdrestoringthebalance​ though I’ve only had him in the cover so far :’)

Bonus sketch of Sam’s character with how I originally tried drawing them under the cut:

Keep reading

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No page again this week, so please accept this instead dasklfjasd

My classes end on the 18th though, but I do have a few other projects planned for this next month such as a collab, animation, and art fight ^^’ Will try to work on pages between projects however!

Check out the other two creators above also! :0

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Since it’s pride month, what are the genders and sexualities of some of the characters?

Ooh, this is a fun question! Though admittedly I haven't come up with everything for a lot of my characters haha, and I haven't technically introduced many yet either ^^' I'll try to list the main cast though and some who featured in the outdated pages, etc.

Gonna put it under a Read More though since I type too much dfdkafljdsk

Main Crew Chespin: cismale, refuses to use labels but essentially panromantic/ace Mudkip: cismale, straight Cyndaquil: nonbinary, unsure (probably aro) Azelf: trans male, ??? Uxie: genderless, ??? Mesprit: trans female, ???

From Current Cover Serperior: cisfemale, bi Carnivine: cisfemale, lesbian Weavile: cismale, straight Houndoom: cismale, gay

From Old/Outdated Pages Lotus (Meganium): cismale, gay Olive (Petilil): cisfemale, (too young!) Junior (Budew): cismale, (too young!) Willow (Cottonee): cisfemale, (too young!) Winnie (Shaymin): transfemale (maybe a bit genderfluid?), demi

Bonus characters in literally the next page coming out (probably in a week or two since college be like that) Riley: cisfemale, straight Milo: cismale (i'm indecisive, maybe trans male), gay

aaannnd there we go! I'm bound to change things in the future though since I'm indecisive pfft Generally I don't tend to think much on exact genders or sexualities, so I don't mind headcanons and such different to what I wrote (so long as young characters are not shipped!!!) Gonna assume my audience is generally very accepting and open, but anyone mad can deal--this is mah comic I do wut I want! :P As I like to say, half the world is basically gay anyway, so ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ (pls i joke)

Happy pride month though, everyone! You all deserve to be heard and I hope you all can grow proud of your own identities!

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Who are some of your favorite PMD authors?

Oh man, there are so many hahaha This is gonna be a long list Hopefully I don’t forget some ^^’

I tend to read a lot more comics than written stories, but I’ll include some recommendations for both!

@pmd-outlanders-comic is a super cool comic that is old western based. The creator has such a cool style that I really admire!

@pmd-hellfire is run by my friend Sam and she similarly has such an incredible and detailed art style too!

@tikki-tok / @tikki-puttin-down-words is another friend who has an insanely well written story they have started! I’ve read the first couple chapters or so and I’m already really immersed. [Link to fanfic]

@timegearing has another intriguing story and incredibly descriptive writing that I love! I need to play some catch up on their stuff too, but I was in love with their work and art.

@gleaminghearts is a comic I had followed on SmackJeeves for a bit and has super fun characters and really matches the mood of the pmd games.

@pokemon-explorers-comic has a super funny comic with a wide cast of hilarious characters and a really charming art style.

And finally @nelvana who is a friend with a really neat story combining rescue team and explorers into something unique. I’m also super behind on her writing, which I need to work on catching up on soon, but it’s super fun seeing how far her writing has gone over the past couple years!

I’m gonna feel real bad if I forgot anyone, but this is at least a starting list XD I’m following way more comics on ComicFury right now, but these are the people I know are on tumblr. I can always make another list if wanted for that haha

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ack, I knew I was forgetting someone! My friend @volcanicbakemeat​ / @pmd-glitch-au​ has another cool story that I really enjoyed when it first came out! She’s working on a reboot currently and has a couple chapters out now!

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hey hey hey no page this weekend since i'm exhausted, so check out these awesome people's stuff instead!

Also adding @rokkosmysterydungeon to the list! Fun comics and art and a super awesome space-themed pmd story: i wake up in the cosmos

I command you all to check these awesome creators out! if you want Lots of pmd content to go around fjskdjs

Also feel free to suggest other pmd comics and fanfics in the comments for others to check out!

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Just as a heads up: my next few pages may end up being a week or so late ^^'

For the past few weeks I have literally not been able to sleep for more than two hours at a time and I've been growing more and more exhausted by the day hahaha

That combined with my awake time being focused on college art classes has been causing me quite a bit of fatigue. This next section of the comic is also slightly more difficult for me, and I'm definitely struggling more with planning panels due to my tiredness pfft

Thanks everyone for the patience! I'm not sure if you guys want updates or not on how pages are doing, but I'll try to put them out when I think of it

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Y'all are maniacs

Literally barely have a comic here and there's already 500 of you ;v;

Thank you all for putting up with my incredibly inconsistent updates and sudden revamp of the comic!!!

I love love love hearing back from you guys and appreciate all the support I've gotten! I read through all the tags and comments and they literally make my day and are my favorite part about posting here! Of course, I also super appreciate all of you who simply read my dumb little comic and enjoy it in the background!

I may not have analytics showing how many of you there are (that i'm aware of), but I know y'all also exist based off of my ComicFury account (which also reached a crazy 10,000 page views 0.0)

I cannot express my gratitude! I'm literally in awe at all of this haha. This was mainly just a fun little project I wanted to do for my own amusement, and I didn't expect it to gain this much momentum with so few pages! You all are amazing and here's to many more comic pages in the future!

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Comments/tags always appreciated!~

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Hi is your cindaquil female or male?

They are actually nonbinary ^^' Throughout the comic, they'll be referred to with they/them pronouns

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They look great.

Glad to hear it! ^^

That is gonna have to be a task for another day unless someone else wants to design it :P Gonna have to work on my comic now if I want to actually get an update out on time for once XD

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Here's my attempt at the fusions between the main characters and lake trio hahahaha

Hope this suffices, anon XD

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Appearance or Personality wise?

Gonna sketch the appearance of that!

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Either Steven universe or dragonball z style fusion.

Haven’t personally watched dragonball z, but I’ll probably doodle something up later with those in mind hahaha Seems like a fun warm-up challenge at least! Though how well they turn out is... questionable XD

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I'm just wondering what it would look like?

Are you thinking kinda like Steven Universe fusions? XD Or like something else haha

Actually could be fun to sketch out later tonight depending on what it is pfft