150 watchers: 023-024 Ekans line
I’m doing the 150 pokémon for my first 150 watchers.
Murphykims
For Murphykims, I again have a watch timestamp : October 7, 2012. Unfortunately, Murphykims deleted everything pertaining to their account, leaving behind only a single poem. I have reinterpreted this poem in the context of Pokémon to refer to those pokémon that are abandoned by their trainers and then rescued. The most prominent example of this is Charmander, who Ash rescues and raises for the rest of the anime. Charmander is waiting atop a rock pile, which I tried to reproduce here. I looked up the frame from the episode and noticed the rock pile has a stepping stone, which I took full advantage of.
The lady with the sword is my interpretation of the silhouette in Murphykims’s profile picture.
When I first decided to use Murphykims’s poem, I didn’t realize the Pokémon Murphykims had assigned as Ekans, and conceived a generic pokémon pulling its arm away. Ekans, of course, has no arms, so I had to make do with “the middle” of its body. The lady was hard to draw, having no clear indication of what her clothes were supposed to be, but most of all the hands. I drew everything too small and had to fight to get the exact right pixels so that they’d look like hands!
Carrow
Carrow also watched me in October 2012 and has also since deleted everything on his account. Luckily for me, he was a prolific commissioner during the short time he was here, so it was easy to get a reference. Carrow’s size, though, is wildly inconsistent, so I decided to make him as “big” as Arbok here.
Carrow was very interested in hypnosis so, although Arbok can’t canonically learn any psychic-type moves, I don’t doubt he would find a way if he had an Arbok that was truly his. Honestly, the temptation to recreate the “Trust in Me” scene from The Jungle Book (the 1967 animated version) is just too great. I’m going to further go out on a limb and say the hypnosis command is “I’m the trainer, you’re the pokémon” which, so long as Arbok is able to take good enough care of Carrow, I’m sure he’d like.
Drawing snake coils has certainly been interesting this time around, because I had more or less of an idea of what I wanted them to “do”. I’m happy with poses and expressions, what was hard, though, was deciding which way they should face. If Arbok and Carrow were looking straight into each other’s eyes, we wouldn’t be able to see both their eyes, and so the “hypnosis eyes” effect wouldn’t have been as clear. Having the top of Carrow’s head tilted towards the camera solves this problem, but it took some experimenting to get it right, and the odd angles of the ears may ruin the effect for some people.
As with the twitter sketches, if you want yours colored, or if you want me to edit you in to somebody else's, I'll happily do it for $5 (not counting shading)
MurphykimsFor Murphykims, I again have a watch timestamp : October 7, 2012. Unfortunately, Murphykims deleted everything pertaining to their account, leaving behind only a single poem. I have reinterpreted this poem in the context of Pokémon to refer to those pokémon that are abandoned by their trainers and then rescued. The most prominent example of this is Charmander, who Ash rescues and raises for the rest of the anime. Charmander is waiting atop a rock pile, which I tried to reproduce here. I looked up the frame from the episode and noticed the rock pile has a stepping stone, which I took full advantage of.
The lady with the sword is my interpretation of the silhouette in Murphykims’s profile picture.
When I first decided to use Murphykims’s poem, I didn’t realize the Pokémon Murphykims had assigned as Ekans, and conceived a generic pokémon pulling its arm away. Ekans, of course, has no arms, so I had to make do with “the middle” of its body. The lady was hard to draw, having no clear indication of what her clothes were supposed to be, but most of all the hands. I drew everything too small and had to fight to get the exact right pixels so that they’d look like hands!
CarrowCarrow also watched me in October 2012 and has also since deleted everything on his account. Luckily for me, he was a prolific commissioner during the short time he was here, so it was easy to get a reference. Carrow’s size, though, is wildly inconsistent, so I decided to make him as “big” as Arbok here.
Carrow was very interested in hypnosis so, although Arbok can’t canonically learn any psychic-type moves, I don’t doubt he would find a way if he had an Arbok that was truly his. Honestly, the temptation to recreate the “Trust in Me” scene from The Jungle Book (the 1967 animated version) is just too great. I’m going to further go out on a limb and say the hypnosis command is “I’m the trainer, you’re the pokémon” which, so long as Arbok is able to take good enough care of Carrow, I’m sure he’d like.
Drawing snake coils has certainly been interesting this time around, because I had more or less of an idea of what I wanted them to “do”. I’m happy with poses and expressions, what was hard, though, was deciding which way they should face. If Arbok and Carrow were looking straight into each other’s eyes, we wouldn’t be able to see both their eyes, and so the “hypnosis eyes” effect wouldn’t have been as clear. Having the top of Carrow’s head tilted towards the camera solves this problem, but it took some experimenting to get it right, and the odd angles of the ears may ruin the effect for some people.
As with the twitter sketches, if you want yours colored, or if you want me to edit you in to somebody else's, I'll happily do it for $5 (not counting shading)
Category Artwork (Digital) / Pokemon
Species Pokemon
Size 1000 x 500px
File Size 175.4 kB
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