Pronoun Trouble

I kinda felt like I was spamming yesterday, so here's a couple more belatedly:



Chandelure (I don't have a good title for this one)

Guess who finally figured out a good Pokemon color match for the Nonbinary Pride flag? This person!

Now a shirt!



Trans Is Beautiful Trio

Updated from the first version, which only had Gardevoir and Milotic. (I absolutely cheated on sizing for Chandelure; I'll probably tweak it a bit for the final version that'll go up on TeePublic, but this works better for coloring, IMO.) I always planned to go back and include the Nonbinary Pride colors as soon as I could figure out a good match for them, it just took a bit longer than I expected - plus there was the Redbubble merge, and I was a bit paranoid about that, so. Anyway, finalized TeePublic art is forthcoming! In the mean time, feel free to print and color :Db

Edit: Shirt now available! It turned out really fantastic too, OMG ♥

I decided to go through and simplify my first batch of Pokemon coloring pages, removing the concentric lines to make them easier to color. I've got a few more to post after this, including the conclusion(?) of the Ragtime Pokemon set, but some of them still need some editing, and I don't want to do an absolutely huge image dump right off the bat.

Here we go! Click on the thumbnails for nice, big, printable versions of the coloring pages.


"Astonish (Simple)"


"Petal Dance (Simple)"


"Own Tempo (Simple)"


"Calm Mind (Simple)"


"Solar Beam (Simple)"


"Sweet Scent (Simple)"

"Trick-or-Treat-a"

In honor of Halloween, and because it's cute and it rhymes. Also Chikorita is surprisingly fun to draw? No complaints here!



"Return"

One of my local Pokemon Go friends is quite fond of my coloring pages, and mentioned that if I ever had any of Charmander, Murkrow, or Ditto, she would love them, since those are her son's favorite Pokemon. I had actually been vaguely looking/hoping for some more non-Community Day/non-Pride shirt coloring page ideas, and promptly took her remark as a prompt ;) I could only manage these two in one drawing, but Ditto will be following up shortly in a pic with Mimikyu (that I still need to scan).



"Bi Doof"

Speaking of Pride shirts, here's Bi Doof Bidoof! I'd been wanting to do something with that pun ever since it occurred to me, lol. I am a bi doof, and I own it. My only regret is that the purple stripe in the bi pride flag is such a dull shade, even compared to the navy blue; I really wish it popped a bit more. Maybe I'll re-color the shirt if I manage to find someplace other than TeePublic to take my stuff.



"Trans is Beautiful"

Holy cats, I almost missed this one! Anyway, redsixwing initially suggested Milotic as a subject, since its colors are basically the same as the Trans Pride flag. After some thought, I came up with Gardevoir as one with colors nearly the same as the Genderqueer Pride flag. Since Gardevoir is commonly thought of as a particularly lovely Pokemon, and Milotic is traditionally only available by making a rather shabby looking fish as beautiful as possible, I thought this was a fitting theme for the two of them. I have yet to come up with a Pokemon who is nearly Nonbinary Pride colored, but I'm sure I will sooner or later. (Pachirisu, maybe...? Turn those stripes purple, lean a bit more on the outline...)



In addition to Milotic, redsixwing suggested tying Absol into the popular "Disaster Gay/Lesbian/Bi/Etc" meme. I loved the idea, but hadn't gotten around to incorporating text or anything before the announcement that RedBubble had acquired TeePublic. If I ever find another site to sell through, I'm planning on doing some recolors of Absol for the Disaster Queer shirts.

I had really hoped to have Absol laying down with a paw over its face, as if hiding from the world, but couldn't make the pose turn out right on paper. Still, Petulant!Absol is a pretty good compromise in my opinion.

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I think that's all for now. In addition to the upcoming Ditto-and-Mimikyu pic, I've also got a Cyndaquil family portrait I'm working on for November's PoGo Community Day. I've got the rough done already, and really just need to tighten up the lines before I start inking. Hopefully I'll have a new shirts-and-stuff site before I get around to a Totodile family portrait.

"Chikorita Family Portrait"

For lack of a better title :P I didn't exactly go all out looking for an ability or move that fit this one. Anyway, here's the lineart I used to make my first shirt on TeePublic, if anyone wants to color one for themself :3b




"Hello, My Chiko"

Also for lack of a better title 9_9a I made both of these for Chikorita Community Day in Pokemon Go. I've got super vague plans to make the other three Johto starters in similar setups as well, especially the dancing one; I really want to put all three starters together as a team like that for a picture (and probably a shirt). Next one will probably be, "Hello, My Cindi", followed by "Hello, My Toto-diiiile~!", just to help the theme come through ;) I do plan to look for a title more along the lines of my traditional naming scheme once I get all three of them together, though.


Oh, Wish is now a shirt as well, if you care to go check that out :)b I think it looks really great on light blue, myself. "Unaware", the one with Slowbro and the angry Shellder, is next in line, though I'm not entirely sure after that.

Pokemon ideas:

* Fire/Fairy cockatiel, possibly with heart-shaped cheek spots
* Ice/Bug snail with a snowball for a "shell"; leaves trails of ice behind it. Evolved form has one of those Japanese two-ball snowmen for a shell. (Optional: Go completely nuts and add a Western three-ball snowman for a third evo. Dunno how to make it visually balanced, though.)
* Dark/Fairy hummingbird, brightly/pleasantly colored to hide its sinister nature
* Fire/Grass pepper; starts bell pepper shaped with a smoldering stem tip, evolves into more of a curly hot pepper with a burning stem
* Water type coconut octopus; "mimic"/trap Pokemon (same vein as Voltorb, Foongus) that uses discarded Pokeballs to hide from predators. The ball it's hiding in will change appearance to match the one it's caught with. Has "Pickup" ability. Possible evo???
* Grass/Flying spice-themed quail -> pheasant -> turkey line; similar to Farfetch'd, but domesticated for its delicious flavor rather than endangered. (I know pheasants were already covered by the Pidove line, but I really wanted it to be three stage and couldn't think of a better middle stage. And it's not like Pokemon hasn't been redundant before.)
* Grass/Flying fruitbat with emphasis on fruit?
* Steel/Poison sea urchin line: Steel to chow down on anything in the ocean, poison to keep predators at bay; gets pointier/gnarlier when it evolves
* Fire/Water teapot elephant; evolves into a full blown tea kettle elephant. Learns Scald very early.
* Water type two-stage clownfish, emphasis on clown.

Puerto Rico Pattern Vivillon are complete! I decided to go with my second version, which I liked better anyway, but even moreso after coloring them both in. I also colored a version with all four wings like the flag instead of the bottom ones with colors switched, which you can click to here:



And the lineart if you want to color your own can be found by clicking this pic:



I am 100% cool with these being used for general FLPR promotional stuff, if anyone is interested in doing so.

Who likes coloring? 8D Here are all of my coloring pages so far, since AI is over, all in print quality (once you click the pictures).


"Sweet Scent"


"Petal Dance"


"Own Tempo"


"Solar Beam"


"Astonish"


"Calm Mind"


"Guardian of the Sun"


"Buu-chan"


Bonus:

"Unaware"

Shellder: It's our anniversary you big pink nitwit! I can't believe you forgot! I have half a mind to unfuse with you! *chew chew chew*
Slowbro: Was there something I was supposed to remember...?


Happy coloring, everyone!

New icon, whee! I finally made some Pokemon GO icons. I'll probably be sharing them over at dreamsheep sometime in the near future, but not tonight because I stayed up too late making them already :P

I need to make more Pokemon icons as well, but tired, so. (My favorite plan is to make one with Dreamsheep as Mareep, because obvs. But there will probably be others as well.)

Just caught a 530 Venusaur :DDD

I've been seeing rare and semi-rare Pokemon "in the area" for like a week now, and decided to pass up on them the past few times I saw them, because I figured they'd come around again. Well, the last one I passed up on was a Scyther, and when I saw that Venusaur silhouette today, I was like, No. No, I'm going for it.

And I caught that grumpy flower toad >:D First time I've seen a wild starter or evolution that wasn't a Squirtle (my own starter, incidentally), and I catch the sucker! Between this and snagging a Dratini last night, I am quite pleased :3

That said, it was humid as a frog's armpit out there, so even though I was walking for less than fifteen minutes, I still could use a shower :P

Argh, there's a frickin' Exeggcute in my neighborhood, but I don't have the energy to try and find it! Especially since the footprint thing isn't working [for me/anymore]. (Seriously, did the footprint thing just go away completely, or is it just my phone?) There was a Polywag when I got home from work, a Polywhirl last night, and an Exeggcutor and two Pikachu a few nights ago, none of which I've gotten.

On the plus side, I did manage to snag a cp527 Tentacruel on a bathroom break this morning, so that's cool. I'm currently at level twelve and have joined Team Mystic, because Articuno has always been my favorite of that trio. My workplace has three individual PokeStops, at least one of which I can reach from the employee break room, and downtown there's a huge swath of PokeStops in something like a three block radius. Like, over twenty huge swath. I'm also completely shameless about the fact that my GPS is a little faulty and registers me in slightly different places every few minutes or so while I'm relaxing in bed. Very useful for hatching eggs. Or, well, not that useful, but it makes up for that first day when it couldn't find the PokeStop I was standing right next to.


In 3D space news, my car has a fuel leak :/ I took it in about a month ago as soon as it began having trouble starting, but the mechanics couldn't find anything/reproduce the problem. In the time since then, the problem got a little worse, the owner of the shop suggested it was the fuel injectors acting up and that it would probably be fine as long as I just let the car sit in "on" for a minute or two before starting the engine, the problem got a lot worse, and on Friday afternoon I made an appointment to drop off the car on Monday. Friday saw the car eating up twice as much fuel as usual; today it used more like four times as much as usual, and there was a puddle in the parking place where I had been at work. Getting this fixed will definitely be cheaper in the long run, though I really wish we could've figured it out and fixed it when I brought it in the first time. Though at least they didn't charge me anything for that first appointment, since their testing device said nothing was wrong.

Anyway, the money from the Staff Art Table should help with that a bit. And hours are going to be picking up at work as well, since classes will be starting again soon, so that'll help, too.


And now I think it's food time, while I continue to rest my aching feet. More work tomorrow, and then the car goes into the shop.