Galar - Blog Posts
A blog about one of my favorite artists, Atsuko Nishida!
Atsuko is a video game artist. She works for the Pokemon company and has been ever since the first games! Originally most of the Pokemon designs were supposed to appear scary or tough like Charizard or Tyranitar, but she took some of the designs and gave them a cutesy look!
Atsuko is also the mastermind behind the company’s mascot Pikachu! She also designed a couple of the eevee evolutions and even designed my favorite Pokemon Zoroark! Not only that but if it wasn’t for her, Ivysaur would look like this!
Another cute fact about this artist is she’s super camera shy, during an interview in 2018 she spent the entire thing hiding behind a Pikachu plush!
Atsuko’s work is very important to the company because without her design we wouldn’t have a balance of designs within the Pokemon games. We mainly have intimidating ones such as Garchomp or Metagross.
Atsuko is an inspiration to me because not only are her designs diverse and loved by all but they also hold purpose in a way. The main rule of a pokemon design is that they need to look like they’d be your friend, I feel that Atsuko pulls this off really well! I try and make my work to have the same feel, some of my characters may look intimidating but deep down inside they’re total sweethearts who will have your back no matter what, either that or they’re just goofballs who want to have a good time with you!
One of the things that amazes me about her is that when she made the design for the company’s mascot, Pikachu, she didn’t make any concept sketches! She went straight to the computer and started punching dot’s to create him. She even quoted it herself in one of her interviews!
I like her designs because of how much character they hold and the color schemes and inspiration behind them are interesting! Not only that but the designs are also loved by many people and I wish to have people enjoy my designs, similarly to how they enjoy Atsuko’s!
Redesign of my Bnuuy
Old version here:
Some kid Bede wips that I'll probably never finish
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"Be brave, you are the Champion's brother..."
Poketober Day 19: Starter Pokemon
Little Sobble does not like Hop's Halloween costume...
Poketober Day 17: Fighting Type
Stow-on-side Gym is hosting a pumpkin pie competition but it looks like someone got a bit ahead of themselves with the taste testing!
I need to post some of my actual art here, geez lol
TADA- the Galar gym leaders as Pokémon!! I tried my best to avoid Pokémon on their teams and picked ones I thought best suited them <3
I’ve been wanting to do the other Oricorio styles for a while now, so here is the first two designs I’ve done, but I plan on doing one for every type
Break Style (Left) and Waltz Style (Right)
When they introduced Galarian Meowth AND Gigantamax Meowth, I was honestly surprised they didn’t make a gigantamax form for Galarian Meowth. Oh well, here’s my take on the concept
Okay, I really like Irish/Celtic mythology. I wish SwSh had just a little more representation of the classic creatures of the Celts so...
Galarian Gardevoir: Ghost/Fairy
When SwSh was first revealed, I was wholeheartedly expecting ponyta to get a kelpie Galarian form. Even though I adore Galarian ponyta, I was disappointed that there was no kelpie Pokemon at all in the region, so I made my own. I was originally thinking of doing another form for ponyta, I realized there was another lovely horse Pokemon I could work with, and one I think plays the role even better than ponyta would have.
Galarian Mudbray and Mudsdale: I’m caught between Water/Fairy or Water/Dark so you can choose which one you think suits it better
I was really looking forward to Rolycoly’s evolution line, I wanted a train Pokemon really badly, but instead we got a mediocre kaiju
Oh well, I guess I made my own concept for a final evolution, Locoalmotive
These are my concepts for a Galarian Torkoal (Fire/Water)
I wanted to make them into a teapot, because I thought it would be cute
what if... there was a new pokemon mystery dungeon game?
every cloud has a silver lining!
pokemon mystery dungeon: knights of sword and shield! coming to the switch… eventually??? still waiting for the day we get new pokemon mystery dungeon games. until then i’ll just be replaying explorers of sky for the umpteenth time ヾ ( ; ▽ ; ) ノ
pikachu just admiring how fluffy wooloo is. this is another panel from a scrapped comic idea i had. uploading it here since i like the way wooloo and pikachu's eyes turned out, though there are some things i wish i did differently with this one. pikachu's head is kinda big, and in retrospect i should've been more mindful about the light source and the shading in general.
Pokemon SW/SH Memes Part:3 (Mainly Allister)
I tried to add as much credit as I can, I didn’t make these so all credit goes to the makers because they spread joy.
First He was Minecraft
Because I thought about how endermites are just End parasites...
He has a funky shulker box fanny pack, his shades say M C. His ender particles are poofy/cloudy and he has a diamond tooth. He has an ender pearl in his eye. The endermite has teeth around its red & yellow eye. He carries a jukebox around with funky beatz on it (mostly Chirp).
Now he is Pokemon
Nobody can stop him.
Honestly Starbro would probably be a more accurate name but I like slowbroski hsdghysdhj
The starmie arm has golden spiked teeth around its gem, and the gem is black in the center. the slowbro has a golden tooth and has purple skin splotches on its arms, head, and tail. His shades say PK MN.