Drawings of mostly Pokémon Characters

Here's where I'll be posting my drawings. Main blog is @myonlypen. I won't be tagging my posts until I think they're good enough.

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Secret santa present for someone in the k-on discord server who likes Runescape.

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I haven't forgotten about my mission to draw Ritsu 400 times. Only I'm wrestling with my ADHD brain to actually draw. This is one I started 4 months ago and kept putting off finishing. It's a shading study which I'm told is why it looks like it's a shading study, which I don't really like about it.

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idk if placards count as "art" but this is the sign I'll be carrying at the anti-trump march in London on Wednesday.

"A fo ben bid bont" is an old Welsh proverb which means "he who is a leader, be a bridge" except I've hilariously changed one letter so that on the America side instead of "bridge" it says "cunt".

Also fun fact, my posts on this blog with art of my OCs is tagged #afbbb because it's also the title of the game I want to make for my OCs to inhabit.

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I was really hoping to draw this comic more frequently, but it's been over two years since the last part.

I know it's probably due to the original Japanese relying less on pronouns and other such gendered language but how on Earth did the conversation go with Brendan when he was told that the new neighbours had a "kid" his age? Who says that instead of "girl" or "daughter"?

This comic was supposed to be longer where Brendan also goes on a trip to Unova and reads that the champion is the "kid" of one of the gym leaders and sometimes greets people arriving at Castelia port. He then looks and sees Iris waving the the ship and he says "I guess he's not here today." But apparently Iris isn't Drayden's adopted daughter? I can find no reference to this, I must have made it up at some point and assumed it was true.

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I didn't forget about drawing Ritsu 400 times.

I've drawn Jun for her birthday twice before, both times in the 8th of April which has long been considered her fanon birthday. (She is the only regular character in K-On! to not have an official birth date despite all of the art books and other supplementary material).

All we knew was that in one of her character image songs she mentions being an Aries, and her birth flower. Fans settled on the 8th of April for the longest time, but recently while discussing the Come With Me!! concert on discord, it was noticed that during a live script reading event Satomi Satou (Ritsu's VA) says to Yoriko Nagata (Jun's VA) in character that she's the youngest of all of them. Since the Japanese school year starts in April, that further reduced the number of possible dates so that now we believe it to be on the 22nd of March. Happy 32nd birthday, Jun!

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I've seen a few people draw "all three hexes" and include the beta hex maniac but not the gen 3 one. So I decided to draw all four.

Bleh, I'm out of practice.

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Secret santa gift for @tacochuu who drew Kumiko from Hibike Euphonium 400 times a couple of years ago.

I hope I don't regret giving myself this challenge.

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I haven't drawn a keion for a while, and I made it Mio since I started drawing it on the 30th of November (11-30 in Japanese can be pronounced "ii mio" or "good mio" day).

There's a nsfw version under the cut which I did in memory of the mastodon instance I've been using to post nsfw shutting down.

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Gardevoir is the "Embrace Pokemon"

What does embrace mean here if not hug, but how do you hug when you have a spike protruding from your chest? I've always had a headcanon that they can make them intangible and allow them to pass through their trainer. Since the pokedex entries for this line suggests that these horns are what allows them to sense emotion, it's kind of intimate in that it would pass quite close to the heart. Maybe it allows them to share emotions.

My idea is that this evolution line is like the perfect emotional support Pokemon. They would know exactly when you need a hug without you needing to ask, and know exactly how you're feeling and therefore also how to make you feel better.

That said, since a sharing of emotions would be quite intense and this kind of hug would involve some kind of penetration, it's hard to deny that it kind of has sexual undertones.

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Several years ago I had a dream that contained the most metal sentence I've ever read. My unconscious mind is much more creative than I could ever hope to be.

In the dream, I read Kirlia's pokedex entry: This Pokemon is blown from people's souls like glass.

Ever since then, I've incorporated that into my headcanon of the Ralts line. Their habitat is urban and they're highly attuned to human emotions. It makes sense that they're made of soulstuff. Maybe they're not blown from individual souls like I've depicted here, but as with glass you need innumerable grains of sand to make something; these Pokemon only form when there are enough souls in close proximity i.e. an urban area.

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The FRLG pokedex has that mode where you can search through Pokemon by habitat, and the Ralts line is classified as urban Pokemon. That is, they live where humans live. That, their rarity, and the fact that one appears to Wally in RSE gave me a headcanon:

Ralts appear only to people who they sense need emotional support. There's a lot of angles here: are they just spirits who manifest in areas where there are people who are having mental health troubles, would they exist in the absence of people? If there are multiple Ralts in an area, which one decides to be the one to approach the human?

There's this weird paradox I don't know how to describe which I like to think of sometimes. In Star Wars, Anakin doesn't get to hold the rank of Jedi Master which eventually leads him to be Darth Vader. The other Jedi could sense he was the kind of person who could become Darth Vader and that's why he didn't get the rank of Master. Even though giving him that rank would have prevented him from becoming Darth Vader.

The relevance of this is, I like to think there's a more wholesome going on with Ralts choosing a human to bond with. They can sense who would be the best partners for them, and avoid trainers who are out intentionally seeking Ralts to catch. If the trainer needed a Ralts, one would have appeared before them. But they didn't, so one didn't.

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A quick Hikage for her birthday.

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I have so many ideas for my Alpha Sapphire comic but I have to actually draw them otherwise it won't go anywhere 😭

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I noticed after I finished my last drawing that I forgot her wristbands. And then I thought huh, she's dressed for tennis.

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I've been listening to the FRLG credits music way too much recently. Far too much rambling about it under the cut.

It's hard to express the emotional impact music can have on you, because it is something personal to you. The best way to describe the emotions it instills would be the music itself, so if the music doesn't have the effect on someone else then they're not going to get it. Trying to put it into words would be like telling them about a dream you had; it has no first-hand meaning to them. Plus there's the fact that it isn't the music itself that makes me feel a certain way but the memories and concepts I associate with the music. If I had never played a Pokemon game and heard it I wouldn't think anything of it.

None of the other generations' credits music have as memorable a melody as the original. Even though I'm certain I would have heard the GSC and possibly even the RSE endings before the RBY/FRLG one.

My earliest memory of playing a Pokémon game was playing Blue on an emulator and my heart was beating really hard as I got to Lance in the Pokémon league. It was the furthest I'd got so far, and I'm pretty sure I lost to him. I'm not sure I ever beat that game. So I don't remember the first time I heard the end credits music. However I do remember staying up into the wee hours of the morning to watch (and play?) the finale of Twitch Plays Pokémon live. I took a screenshot of the "THE END" screen and named it "memory.png" because of how much fun I had following the stream. Then a couple of months later (pretty much exactly 10 years ago from today) I was back from my year in America and was working a temp job at my university over summer. I was living in a dormitory and since it was summer there weren't any other people there. It was the first time I'd lived alone in my life. And at one point while I was living there I listened to the end credits music and just started crying. I have no idea what exactly I was crying about, but the music combined with the fact that I didn't have to worry about people hearing me through the walls and asking if I'm okay is what brought it on. And I was crying for hours, until I fell asleep.

I don't tend to feel strong emotions, but one thing that can get me is catharsis. The end credits music as a fanfare already makes you feel relief that the struggle it took to become a Pokémon champion is over, but it's bittersweet because the adventure was the point; that was the fun part. Unless you're going for 100% completion that's where the game ends. The FRLG version is superior in my opinion. It has some buildup as if the player has a sigh of relief after the big battles that just happened until it hits them that they actually did it, and the fanfare washes over them. The visuals then show them going on a victory lap around Kanto, showing all the places they've been before they return home. The reason it's longer is most likely more people having worked on the game and more storage space on the cartridge, but whatever the reason they adapted the original well.

Now, sometimes when I engage with an early piece of media in a franchise that has had many sequels I try to look at it through the lens of all the later things not existing in canon yet. For example in Star Wars, Darth Vader not being Luke's father and Yoda not existing yet. Anyway in the original Pokémon games we're only seeing the world through the eyes of a 10 year old, it's possible that what we see isn't the extent of the Pokémon world. Maybe there are hospitals for humans and some form of government, we just don't see them because our character isn't concerned with them, for example. Maybe leaving home to go on an adventure isn't standard and it's unique to these kids from Pallet Town because it's something Professor Oak arranged for them. He's an academic and it makes no sense that he would make a Pokémon encyclopedia that is completely blank despite him being an expert in the field. The Pokédex is like a bird watching book where you cross off ones you see as you go. It's an educational game. Going to each gym to get a badge is like getting a stamp or sticker, like a scavenger hunt or something you'd do in scouts. What I'm getting at here is that beating the Pokémon league might not be some ticket to stardom like it's depicted in the anime, what if it's just one of the goals of this self-guided field trip Professor Oak has organised for our hero? Now that it's over they're going home to continue their life as a child in this small town. The victory lap they're taking isn't just a victory lap, it's taking a final chance to visit all these amazing places while they still have the freedom to do so. I'm sure we all have some specific memories of periods in our childhood that were particularly meaningful to us and I don't doubt that in this headcanon I've just constructed that Red or Leaf would absolutely consider their Pokémon adventure to be one of the best experiences of their childhood. And the credits music makes me think that: this was the best part of your life, it's good that it's happened, but it's over now nonetheless. I certainly remember getting emotional and crying at the end of our culture festival in my final year at school since there would be no more singing competitions, no more cheekily playing Mario Kart DS from the stands, no more competing against the other school houses for nothing but the honour of having won the festival. Those are the kinds of feelings it brings back to me.