And Now To Swap Gears A Bit, From OCs To Fandoms. Pokemon Is The One I'm Perhaps The Most Active In,

And now to swap gears a bit, from OCs to fandoms. Pokemon is the one I'm perhaps the most active in, and Victini is one of my favorites. Even played Pokemon Black a bit earlier than the intended receive date of my birthday to make sure I got its event.

This picture I drew to celebrate Victini Day, a silly little thing I discovered on Twitter with Japanese users dedicating a day of the year to one or more Pokemon. So of course I drew a piece featuring them in their Liberty Garden basement home.

I also repurposed it for the Pokemedia subreddit, having it use my character Red the Victini—adapted from the one I used in my aforementioned Pokemon Black file. In the future I might put some in-character things onto this Tumblr, to provide a little taste of social media from the Pokemon world.

(And other times I might just do it from the perspective of my trainer self from my personal canon, and not the shared one of the subreddit.)

Here's some drawings of Cole meeting with some other bugs, on and off duty!

This is Abda, one of the aforementioned "snobbier bugs" around town. She makes no secret her disdain for those of lesser status than her, much to Cole's dismay.

Here he is delivering a heavy delivery of milkweed for this monarch caterpillar fellow. Inspired by just how large ones we nurtured a few years ago got!

And lastly, him being very confused by a bumblebee trotting along with a leaf dragging behind him. Inspired by a bee I saw doing that same thing (without a rope, unfortunately)!

Alright, with the major players out of the way, here's the main crew of six, all together! Quite a diverse set, don't you think?

None of them share a world, though Ica and Lotu would definitely earn each other's ire if they did.

Behold, a buggy!

LEGO's been a passion of mine since I was young, and though I don't often have the free time to build with it nowadays I still dabble in it from time to time. The physical buggy above is an old model, but the drawing's recent, of course.

I wonder if it would fit well in Ica's world, a nice way to move about the wastelands...

Another video game I play mostly regularly is Sky: Children of the Light. If you haven't heard of it, it's a free game on Mobile and Switch (I play on the latter), where you customize a little Sky Child and wander across the world, exploring it and meeting other Sky Children doing the same.

I drew this piece inspired by the new seasonal event that started today—the Season of Moments. It's got this nice place called the Prairie Peaks with waterfalls, mountains, cliffside paths, and a big ol' monolith sitting in the middle of it all.

It's pretty serene and calming, as is most of the game. And it's seeing this area in-game (among other things out-of-game) that helped inspire me to escape a bit of a funk I've been stuck in for over a week now. Also provided some practice drawing backgrounds—I'm not the best at them, but practice makes perfect.

I also tried making a timelapse, which I'll share below... It didn't quite work, thanks mainly to how my current computer isn't quite the best thing out there, to put it lightly.

My phone decided to become uncooperative a few days ago—hanging on startup, refusing to go through the lock screen, not opening apps... All in all, worrying.

My tech-savvier brotherhas been trying his best to fix it, but at this point he says it'd be best to just straight-up factory reset the thing. Which... is understandable, sure, but I feel so attached to how it currently is that I don't want to lose it all.