I'm doing a series of all of the starter Pokemon, making avatar-sized versions of them, and now it's time for me to do the Hoenn starters. I'm doing this because of my story series, Starting in the Lab, which will have four stories in total and each starring the three different starters from the respective region.

This is Balsa. He's a timid, clingy Torchic that has been picked on by one of his fellow starters. He misses his friend, a Treecko that stood up for him and helped him gain confidence in himself. Without her, things haven't been the same. He tries to be friendly, but there's just no helping some Pokemon...

Balsa is from the Hoenn installment of Starting in the Lab, which is not yet finished.

Go ahead and use this for any purpose if you'd like to. I intentionally left these unsigned so they would make a great avatar or display pic or something. I may use these as my own avatars from time to time, but I don't mind if you use them as well, or put them as an image for a story, or basically whatever other use. I don't care.