#beta darkrai

[dianeramic]

This is a piece I did for @thelostdex, a zine about beta and lost Pokemon designs! This one is an early version of Darkrai, one of my favorite Pokemon, and I wanted to draw it as if it was photographed at night by a trail camera.

[legendaryshippingftw]

So...about those sinnoh beta leaks...

(I can’t be the only one who thinks Beta arceus just looks like some cuddly little... thing?? right??)

Beta Sinnoh legends (regigas is just his placeolder sprite)

Beta Raikou and Suicune (and other beta Johto stuff) from here

Beta celebi aka saladfingers is from here

Mew is just being the original red/green version which I consider Beta enough to include here lol

[darkrai-honors]

So they released the beta images for Diamond and pearl. Oh boy

I don't know whether I like them or not. At least it's closer to the final boi than Giratina or Arceus.

I'd like to use them in my campaign, should the dice will it....

[eriisaam]

Another DPPlt gen beta pokemon I did that thankfully didn’t give me nearly as much unexpected OOC disasters as its more chaotic counterpart, beta Giratina/Kimairan. 

This is Darei, also known as beta Darkrai, and trying to come up with a design for it to keep the general spirit of the original sprite was much easier and kinda fun of how to flesh out certain elements. What wasn’t quite as fun is having ideas on what to do with the legs, and then redrawing them several times for the sheer amount of times it came out wrong.

I also realize it has a rooster sort of face to it and an unfortunate bust-and-butt pose, but at this point I’m so utterly done with this that I just plain don’t care and will make peace with those blursed elements to it.