Daily Dex - Orthworm, Morgrem, Aria Meloetta, Nickit, Bailie Oricorio, Galarian Rapidash and Manaphy
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop
Christ, a few Daily Dex posts ago I was like "I wanna do these a bit more on a schedule" and then got distracted by time off work, going to a few movies, cleaning my house etc so - here's fucking eight pokemon I drew over the last week+, finally photographed and added to the project.
Please enjoy.
Oh and as a sidenote, I got gnarly carpal tunnel / tendonitis AND a hurt rotator cuff last week so most of these were drawn wearing an arm brace and I gotta admit, not as bad as I expecting! There's some rough line art but like, that's kind of expected with the whole ten minute time limit thing.
Anyway, the work continues:
Fri 05/22/2026 - Orthworm
The God Emperor of Dune is here!! Right on. Plus, "Orthworm" is fun to say because it adheres to the comedy rule of "mispronouncing things is funny".
Sat 05/23/2026 - Morgrem
I didn't clock until I was drawing the nose that this is the pre-evolved version of Grimsnarl, the Final Fantasy Behemoth Fursona. This creature though looks more like the twink version of it before they hit the gym because Grimsnarl is more like Grimswole amirite. (It also kinda has early Final Fantasy goblin vibes)
Sun 05/24/2026 - Aria Meloetta
Whenever I hit the RNG, if the pokemon has different versions I often roll a die or go with my own preference to see which one I go with; it was the former here. A 1 on a D4 rolled the Aria form.
I like that the limbs are music notes and the hair is like sheet music. Cool design all in all.
Mon 05/25/2026 - Nickit
Man, are all Fox-adjacent pokemon (like ones that are explicitly foxes) dark type? Like....what the fuck's that about?
Tues 05/26/2026 - Bailie Oricorio
Another double RNG; rolled 741 and then got a 1 on the D4 roll for which variant. I think all four forms of Oricorio fall under "just a bird" categories discussed previously (with two of them veering into weird racial caricatures) but hey - birds continue to be good.
Weds 05/27/2026 - Galarian Rapidash
This one was a special request! Specifically the Galarian Rapidash was requested and I wasn't sure what to expect but "OG 1980's my little pony" was not it. Loses fire type but gains psychic fairy? Bonkers. Love a fabulous unicorn though, can't go wrong there.
Thurs 05/28/2026 - Manaphy
Ok but seriously though - what is this? Like is it supposed to be some kind of jellyfish or sea creature? (Water type so I'm jumping to conclusions I guess)
The official designation is it's the "seafaring pokemon" and I don't know what I'm looking at lmao
Anyway, thanks for tuning in. More pokemon to follow until I run out or stop. And hey, always open to requests; if I haven't done one yet, shoot me a comment or a message elsewhere.