All Lycrilic pups are born with floppy ears, but as they mature, one ear will become upright. They secrete paint from their fur, and can change their color and typing.
Though highly creative and artistic, Lycrilics are notorious for having an issue of painting on anything they find- your walls, the couch, an ancient artifact, a priceless sculpture, and other people and Pokemon.
In the wild they mark their territory with their own unique imagery painted all over the trees and rocks. Territorial fights between packs consist of painting over one another’s work.
I’m sorry, Smeargle fans, please do not rip me to shreds-
I based my Smeargle redesign off of an African wild dog, also known as a “painted dog”. They really missed an opportunity here.
I also know it’s a big risk picking a single stage Pokemon to redesign. But also. I told myself ‘the 18 color variations will make up for it’. And also the fact that the redesign is based off a highly endangered animal that many people do not know about.
I don’t know if it made up for it but the point is I tried okay
Also yes, I did come up with different color combos for each and every type, and even included a few of Frogcroak’s Pokemon redesigns to interact with some of the Lycrilic variants. They change their type and color depending on what move they last used, because... I think it’d just be neat for my Smeargle redesign to come in multiple colors. I mean I love Alcremie. Minior looks cool. ... We don’t talk about the satanic butterfly.
I kept the beret because I had to look up why people associate artists with berets and found out ‘it’s because they’re poor’ and that is very much true today, so I kept the beret, but made it kinda... double as like... a paint... palette....
Lycrilic is a combination of ‘Lycaon’ (the genus name for the African wild dog, but also the African wild dog is the only living member in that genus soooo) and ‘acrylic’, because it’s a type of paint and it’s also the only one I know how to use.
Uh. Yeah. That’s. All I got for now. I tried my best.
