So, In Pokemon Scarlet And Violet, There're Been Pok Portal News Events Providing Special Mass Outbreaks

So, in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, there're been Poké Portal News events providing special Mass Outbreaks through the summer. First we had the Pikachu line, then the three varieties of Tatsugiri, now we have Wattrel outbreaks in Paldea, Riolu in Kitakami... and Comfey in the Blueberry Academy Terarium. You have to wonder if the teachers there sometimes have to wrangle the Pokemon outbreaks if they get too disruptive. Well, since I have a certain rabbit teaching there, he got tasked with handling a bouquet of Comfey that were bothering students in the Savanna Biome...

...It could be going better.

(No one tell him he'll have to worry about Beldum outbreaks in a few weeks.)

"Beware, adventurer, if you plan to journey to the Akai Woodwastes... for those who survive in the fog, live only for fear and blood."

An old digital art piece! It was inspired by something I'd been doing with a friend around the time it was drawn (the location name is unique to me, though), and as one of my earlier forays into digital backgrounds it holds up pretty well! The adventurer does stand out a bit too much against the drab colors, in hindsight—were I making this today I would definitely add shading to mute his tones. (My sharing this here was partly inspired by how foggy it was this afternoon...)

Well, seems like that's my first Art Fight in the books! Didn't do as much art as I wanted to do—time management is still something I have to work on—but I'm more than pleased with the pieces that I did end up making! Can't wait for to take part next year!

Per a friend's advice, I spent the day yesterday mostly offline to unwind and de-stress, and I'd say it helped a bit—I managed to make Ghostie's character reference sheet from scratch over the course of this evening! I definitely need to do this more often. The head shape took a few tries to get right, but I think having it smoothly go to the body without a neck fits best with how I've been drawing him more recently.

He stumbled over to the water's edge, his heavier frame hitting the sand with a loud thud, joints unmuffled by a missing biomechanical musculature. He struggled to drown out the voice of the thing in his head—of the Krana—telling him to calm down and that everything would be alright and that "oh, your life will be so much better now!" and other worthless platitudes. He craned his neck to lean towards the water, elongated eyes pleading with the liquid surface to show him HIM, that pitiful 'Su-Matoran' clad in orange and white armor, Kakama resting on his face… …Only for his heartlight to shatter. There, staring back, was the insectoid face he had touched with his new, shield-clad hands. The tusks that he felt his hyperventilating breath pass over. The faceplate, transparent, with the Krana visible underneath where there should be just his own brain. The body of something he had only heard horror stories about; enlarged, warped, built for rolling around, for getting places quickly, for cleaning all that must be cleaned. There was no hope, now, of denying his fate. He was… a Bohrok.

And here's what I've worked on for 810NICLE Day!! As we know, the Bohrok in Bionicle canon are transformed Av-Matoran, stripped of their identity and autonomy to become the workforce ensuring the cleaning of Mata Nui's camouflage when it became necessary... Or, for rampaging over said camouflage while it's inhabited by Matoran due to a certain Makuta's long-running schemes. They're both the same to the Swarm. After I first learned about that detail, way back when, a little nugget of a story idea entered my mind: What if a Matoran transformed into a Bohrok, outside of the Matoran Universe? What if it was not just an Av-Matoran, but one that had been living their life assuming they were another type of Matoran due to them being scattered across the universe for their safety. And what if they retained their identity, their autonomy, due to the circumstances of their transformation? What would they do in response...? It's a story that I would love to work on, though admittedly it's not had much laid out beyond this opening scene. What could happen to this former SuAv-Matoran and his unwanted Krana companion? Who's to say... As a thanks for sitting and reading all that, here's a timelapse of this drawing!

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