So cool to see all these Johto previews again--wish I still had the magazine (Pojo's, maybe? Just rediscovered them here.) At the time I had pulled out these few initial favorites to doodle, from the often very different (and hilarious) depictions. Clearly the designs were not yet finalized…and Umbreon's Japanese name was still Yanyan. Wonder what I was doing with 'em, considering I wrote my name + age (12) + middle school on the back. (And took a photo with the Pikachu/Diglett camera that printed bigass Pokemon frames around the pics…)
The other two Suicune (including the decapitated one) were copied from its other early appearances, possibly in another issue or magazine; believe I've still got those pages torn out and saved in amongst my millions of papers from school years. Which are loaded with poke-related shit on like, every other sheet. Jolteon, Flareon, & Ninetales were just 'cause they were early Kanto faves. x-3 (Wonder why I left out Vaporeon, the second-place Eeveelution.) Then obviously the second set of colored Johto ones was drawn after English names were revealed, but I thought Hoppip was Hoppit. Must've misheard I guess.