Red The Victini - Tumblr Posts

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.)

Time for more art! Here's a shot of my Pokemon team from Pokemon Black, gathered together in the Savanna Biome of Unova's Blueberry Academy Terarium! From left to right we have:

Smugleaf the Serperior ♂ (Hardy, quick to flee)

Red the Victini (Sassy, strong willed)

Falkner the Unfezant ♂ (Rash, hates to lose)

Chuck the Sawk ♂ (Jolly, good perseverance)

Murkrok the Krookodile ♀ (Adamant, thoroughly cunning)

Plesiosaur the Carracosta ♀ (Serious, alert to sounds)

If you're wondering why Red's got a scarf on, that's a bit of a headcanon thing—he's skilled with electronics, so a while after the events of my Pokemon Black file, he found himself teaching at Blueberry Academy as a Mechanical Engineering teacher! Man, I can't wait to share more about my personal PokeCanon... when I get the chance to, of course.

And as a bonus, here's the only two Unova team members that can actually be here in-game. Yes, I am miffed that, at a minimum, Victini wasn't included in the Indigo Disk update, why do you ask? I mean, at least we can get Meloetta, but still

Gimme a V for victory!

Oh, right! I nearly forgot that today was Victini Day! I threw this together pretty last-minute due to being occupied through the afternoon, but I feel it still turned out great. I didn't go too crazy with the background—ended up giving it something of a C-Gear aesthetic as a result. (I tried doing what some people do for grass, but I think the blades of grass sticking up are what trip me up when drawing it.)

Happy Fourth of July—or, as it might be called in Unova, Founder's Day! Made this last year for the PokeMedia subreddit, since one of my characters there is the Victini of Liberty Garden, Red.

It's a simple picture, but I had fun playing with some of CSPs more shape-based brushes in the designs! I actually wrote up a bit of a backstory for Red as part of another PokeMedia storyline, though it'd be boring to just put down all the parts of the TweetGen thread I made for it—someday, I'll put it into comic form.

Here's the picture I made for this year's Fourth of July/Founding Day! Featuring fireworks in the shape of Reshiram and Zekrom this time! The background picture is one I took of the ocean near my house, the Castelia City picture is (of course) the official art with some skewing for perspective, and that boat is the Royal Unova model from B2W2, lacking textures because they didn't load into Clip Studio Modeller and I wanted to finish it in a reasonable time.

And of course, it has its own Tweetgenned picture to go along with it. If you're wondering what the background is for Red's Twitter avatar, that's the Pokeball I caught him in—a Heal Ball. Didn't put much thought into it when I originally caught him, but now I feel it's fitting for a Mythical that's likely experienced a lot of trauma over the centuries.

Happy Fourth of July—or, as it might be called in Unova, Founder's Day! Made this last year for the PokeMedia subreddit, since one of my characters there is the Victini of Liberty Garden, Red.

It's a simple picture, but I had fun playing with some of CSPs more shape-based brushes in the designs! I actually wrote up a bit of a backstory for Red as part of another PokeMedia storyline, though it'd be boring to just put down all the parts of the TweetGen thread I made for it—someday, I'll put it into comic form.

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.)

Apparently the Pseudo-Legendary—sorry, Powerhouse Pokemon outbreaks in Scarlet and Violet ended yesterday, assuming you're one of those people who always connects to the Poke Portal daily. Hope everyone managed to find the shinies they wanted!

...Some are certainly more agreeable than others, as Red found out.

(Not pictured: the heavily-bandaged aftermath after he ran into a snowbank and was subsequently in Shadow Claw distance. Don't worry, he's recovered by now.)