I’m doing the 150 pokémon for my first 150 FA watchers.

 NickTheMonkey
Nick followed me on August 19, 2019. When it came time for his drawing, it was really hard to find a picture of his ’sona. I eventually settled on using his first upload to FA. There wasn’t much to go off of other than the SNES pendant, so I used the same solution as for the last gamer, and went with a trainer pose. For which trainer, I looked to my last sketch of the Staryu line and went with a swimmer.
^{Keeping Nick cute was a challenge when the reference pose was a rather realistic adult male. I hopefully made him fluffy enough to ensure it still looks like the same character. I hesitated a lot on what aspects of the swimsuit to keep, and eventually ditched the goggles. I don’t know why Staryu looks like it was drawn with a lighter pencil in the finished drawing (most likely some keyboard shortcut I pressed borked things), but I also don’t know how to fix it.}

 N-Liger
This one was an interesting one. It would have been easier, i feel, if I'd actually done it in lower resolution, since there would be less negative space for the mind to fill in. Hitting the right balance between my style and the toony aesthetic was not easy. I constantly found myself thinking midstroke "that wouldn't look toon enough" (no references to Toontown intended). However, i wanted to show the fur being swept back by the updraft of the run. I soon realized this meant going for a photorealistically-rendered toon like the animated movies of the 2000s, and I'm not sure how to feel about having created that.
^{The legs, i thought, would be easier, since i just has to redo what i did when drawing Sonic and The Roadrunner. It was not, at all, that simple. It was not. For one, although i had better references for Nahu's cat form than his Nekomimi form, it still wasn't good at showing his feet. For another, neither sonic nor the roadrunner had stripes on their legs!}

Starmie itself was a challenge because, although I remembered it doing this in the anime, i couldn't get a reference for the angle i was going for, and i didn't want it to look too much like a propeller. I guess, in the end, I admitted defeat to the latter.
^{The dust clouds were an afterthought from looking at the drawing and thinking "they don't look like they're going fast enough. Unfortunately, I'd never drawn dust clouds before.}

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)

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