pokemon has given us a lot of fun takes on mundane life in the pokemon world over the years but "work-from-home pokemon trainer" has gotta be up there as one of my absolute favorites. sorry can you come in to the office today deborah from finance says she's supposed to battle you. yeah she says it's important.
#848 - #850. It's very hard to differentiate when a Toxel is rocking out or throwing a tantrum. Differentiating between amped and low-key is much easier, however. Amped Toxtricity are more likely to provide vocals for a song, even if they don't sound that good.
Pokémon voted by you guys! Design process undercut ↓
This time, i started by studying the line, because toxtricity felt like a very complicated pokémon whos shapes i didnt understand that well. So i referenced some official art to draw some canon compliant toxes. You can see I didn't handle toxel very well.
Once I kinda figured out what their deal is in canon, I started studying some crested newts to hone down my shapes of the animal, and started throwing shit at the wall when it comes to their design
Honestly, my main struggle was figuring out what proportions i wanted to do and figuring a way to stylize the face that still made them newt like. I also was reallyyyy struggling with the horns on top of the mohawks
Here is where I really nailed the basics of what I wanted. However if you've noticed, my main issue was that not only was i not figuring out toxel, I did not account for lowkey form either. The latter was easy to fix, I just swapped the body type into something thinner instead of top heavy. Toxel however....
I'll be so fr I hated those first passes so bad, because I didnt do any tries beforehand!!!!!! of course it was gonna come bad!!! So i redid them to the toxels that you saw on the main image, and I enjoyed their designs a lot more + the poses were a lot less clunky.
These guys killed me im so dead its over. goodbye im sleeping for 1000 years
if you’ve never played a pokémon game you’re missing out on the insane things npcs will say to you unprompted. like you’ll be walking down a path and a total stranger will see you and immediately run up to you and trap you in place and say something like ‘the divorce is getting rough but me and my pokémon are getting tough!’ and then start a battle and after you beat their single rat they’ll be like ‘i wasn’t worthy of her…’ or something
A WIP shot of a painting I did for my sister’s birthday. I need to ask her for a picture of the finished piece since I forgot to take one before giving it to her rip