trainer wishes to battle

pokémon: still very much a great escape from reality.

wanted to play around with colours - and Pokémon - after reading through PK's Colouring Tutorial. I'm cheered by the results!

more pokemon

expect even more pokemon. I forgot how addictive and fun (and maddening) these games were.

tall grass habitat

perfectionism and control-freakiness when it comes to animating scenes resulting in overtime and much hair-pulling, combined with the wish for more time and energy to play video games - among other things - can be a lethal mixture. it leads to silly flash doodles and easy amusement. but who doesn't like silly flash doodles?



I've been 24 for almost a week now! w00t.

drawdrawdraw

another one for the last-day-of-the-month posts! lotsa doodling been going on here, which is awesome. primarily fanart because lately I've been feeling more like drawing other people's characters than my own for the most part.

first off, some fanart for Kirby! I love this character, and this about sums up why:


I got inspired by the old 90's Kirby ads (and super smash bros of course) on these drawings. I've been enamoured with that loose 'n squishy way of drawing -- and animating! -- recently. :)







had to give Rick, Coo, Kine and Whispy some love too. :B


some doodles of my character Switch -- designed around my western zodiac sign (gemini) and how that relates to my personality. she's a lot of fun to draw if a little difficult to nail sometimes, but I've definitely captured how I intended her to look in these.

more pokemon art because I've been playing a lot of Soul Silver recently! the game's as addictive as ever.





one of the first things my beedrill Needles did after he evolved from a kakuna was to hug me! I thought that was so cute I had to make a drawing capturing the touching moment between a trainer and her giant bipedal apian monster.


he's just learnt twineedle and is thus more badass than ever. and that'll be all for now.

well it feels like being ten again

I have my copy of Pokemon Soul Silver! and of course I had to make an illustration to commemorate the occasion:


drawing myself as a ten year old is a lot of fun. :)



I've got really really fond memories of the gold-silver/Johto generation of pokemon and being excited as all getout about it coming out when I was a kid, so it makes me really happy that I'll be able to play these games all spiffed up on my DS. and with some really cool extra features no less!



of course who could forget the originals? charmander remains my favourite starter pokemon of all time ever. :D



my friend Gio thinks I'm a fool for being of this opinion, so I drew us as Red and Blue for laughs. I'm probably going to draw a better version and colour it. I'm not a huge fan of the way the people look in the games/show but it felt weird to draw them too differently. I also got a cheap old copy of Pokemon Colosseum for the gamecube (which I'd never played) that I've been playing on my wii, so I'm probably going to be drawing more pokemon stuff!

seems to be a thing with me that I make a post on the last day of every month! I've been so busy helping out my friends among SVA's current crop of seniors with their thesis films, and between that and working I haven't had much time for art of my own sadly. but now they're done and the Dusty screenings are coming up next week! if you got an evening to kill on Tuesday the 4th, go catch the show. :) it's at the SVA theater on west 21st street, at 7 PM.

I know I say this a lot, but my blog shall be getting more love. :D

what kind of pokemon are you?

I wanted to get these out in time for pokemon month on facebook, but didn't make it. ah well. some friends and I came up with pokemon puns on our names, and I thought it would be fun to draw them out.

Ivey


Elena


Kat


Brian


Manny


Tris


Gio


yours truly.

in other news, I shall be employed in a week. hoorah!