James writes “You should design a few Pokemon, I always found it interesting seeing what other people think of when it comes to them, because people come up with such unique ideas on them.”
I assume you mean designing new Pokemon, not drawing existing ones, right? Interesting idea. The Pokemon themselves have a unique art style within anime – especially the original group of 150-ish Pokemon – but I can’t say I’ve tried drawing in that style too much. Well, here goes:
I present to you Beaverbite, Geckameleon, and… some kind of small bird Pokemon with fire wings of some sort. I like the first two, but the third one looked a lot better in my head than what came out on paper, so he doesn’t get a name. (That’ll teach him for being drawn badly.)
As an extra treat for today, you know how I mentioned before that I don’t draw Pokemon often? Well, the only time I can ever recall drawing a Pokemon before today was the following drawing, done in early 2000.
Andrey wrote me, asking “If you could create your own wii game like the creator of the boom blox & boom blox bash party did with EA. What would it be? How would it look like? Will it be a 50 mini-game party game type? Or maybe you can draw your own characters and make an adventure or party game like Rayman Raving Rabbids or a puzzle game like Boom Blox.”
If I could make my own Wii game… funny you should ask. This is probably my first time publicly saying this, but I very much would like to make my own single-player Wii game. In fact, I’ve been sketching out ideas for my game idea over the last four years.
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Frank, who previously sent this idea, had another one… a light bulb having an idea.
I like that one. Maybe I should put it on a T-shirt.
Another fan named Alex sent an e-mail saying “My name is Alex and I would like to see you draw Waluigi because he’s my favorite Mario character.”
Why not? I’m having a great deal of fun with these Mario ones:
Somehow, I don’t think that Waluigi would feel particularly bad to have been the one SENDING the blue turtle shell…
Side note about Waluigi: the first time I ever saw a video of Charles Martinet, he was doing the voice of Waluigi saying “I’m Waluigi! Everybody’s a cheater but me!”. Charles Martinet, in case you were unaware, is the English voice of many Mario characters, including Mario, Luigi, and Wario. Anyway, when I saw the video, I was surprised seeing what the voice of the character actually looked like, and I’m fairly certain that memory influenced this picture.
Over the last week and a half, I received not one but two e-mails requesting a scared Luigi. One e-mail suggested that Luigi should be running scared from a ghost, so here we go.
I get the feeling that Casper the Friendly Ghost isn’t what the e-mailers had in mind. :)
Got an e-mail from Frank that said “heres a drawing idea… a piggy bank robbing an actual bank”.
That’s funny. That’s Jellyfish In Armour material right there:
A fan named Hattie writes “You should make A unicorn swimming in mud!”
Well, Hattie, I’m going to be honest with you… I’m not great at horses and I don’t know if I’ve ever drawn a unicorn, not to mention the fact that I have no idea what a horse looks like when it’s swimming in mud. So, I fudged it a bit and tried for “diving into mud” instead.
That was a weirder one for me, so I decided to break out some pencil crayons – something I rarely do – and draw something. There was a bouquet of carnations at home, so here was one of them:
Continuing with the “Send Me an Idea” challenge, here’s an idea that Jimmy sent me: “I think you should make a person or something in space. You should make the person or whatever you want with a cookie.”
Hmm… space and cookies. Well, this was the first thing that came to mind:
Over the last few days, I’ve already received more e-mails than I can possibly draw, so to all of the fans of this site, thank you! There have been some really wacky ideas, and there’s a few more that I’ve already received that I still plan on doing (including one that would work much better as a piece of music than as a sketch).
A fan named Steven wrote me with the following request: “I think you should draw “The Tortoise and the Hare”. The tortoise would have a rocket attached to its shell.” Sounds good to me:
There are actually a few influences behind this picture. The first, of course, if the Aesop’s Fable “The Tortoise and the Hare”, but there’s more than that. The rocket, while not identical, is somewhat inspired in its shape by Rocketsnail. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have his logo up anymore, but he used to have a 3D snail with a rocket tied to its back as his logo.
However, I also got some inspiration for this from… myself. Back in 2000, I created an animation in 3D Studio Max for animation class that was based on, you guessed it, The Tortoise and The Hare. It was called “The Rematch”, and these were the characters:
Ah… that takes me back.
I’ve already had some response to the “Send Me An Idea” challenge. Here’s the first one, from Eric:
A giant worm fighting a robot (a robot which, if you want, can be piloted by the hog mascot of the site)
You got it!
